Air and Ocean Export Operations

Location: Doral, FL

Hybrid Work Schedule
Subsidiary: Röhlig USA
Country: United States
Start: ASAP

Coordinates the activities and ensures expeditious delivery of Export Air and Sea consignments in a timely manner to customers, as per customer orders and prescribed quality standards while using discretion and independent judgment to increase margin on each shipment. Assists in achieving branch goals and targets while always following company standard operating procedures, policies and processes including, but not limited to, increasing company profit. 

Responsibilities

  • Increasing Branch Profits 

    • Utilize discretion and independent judgment to engage vendors to increase margin on each shipment. 
    • Utilize discretion and independent judgment to ship goods using the most efficient, cost effective route to increase margin on each shipment. 
    • Discretion to engage vendors. 
    • Management of vendors. 
    • Negotiate rates with shipping vendors. 
    • Employee profit and loss on each shipment will be analyzed. 
    • Overall management of desk to maximize profit. 

  • Coordinating Operations with Air & Sea freight Exports 

    • Ensuring support documentation is available and correct. 
    • Booking freight with Airlines, Ocean carriers and consolidators and obtaining freight rates. 
    • Arranging pick up and on behalf of the client/agent as required. 
    • Registration of shipments. 
    • Accurate completion of bills of lading and airway bills. 
    • Operating customs exit systems, ensuring relevant input data is recorded for obtaining E.C.N clearance. 
    • Reporting to customs where relevant. 
    • Ensure timely delivery to carrier’s consolidators, packing depots, costing invoicing and collection of correct charges. 
    • Ensures compliance with all regulations prescribed by USA customs/IATA/TSA & FMC. 

  • Client and Supplier Management 

    • Keeps record of discrepancies via the Innovations and Incidents Management (IIM) to ensure compliance. 
    • Regularly reviews reports in order to refine and improve service to the customer. 
    • Review quotes and records rates to clients and prospective clients. 
    • Manages allocated customers using established tools (e.g activity reports) in order to achieve and exceed targets. 
    • Traces orders and ensures that information affecting arrival or dispatch is communicated to customers (internally and externally) or their agents. 
    • Keeps in touch with competitor activities and industry trends, and attends industry related functions and seminars when required. 
    • Deploys information about all contact with customer and supplies to all parties. 

  • Financial and Accounting Responsibilities 

    • Resolves export accounting issues related to forwarding cost/payment, overseas invoicing, free domicile. 
    • Processes air and sea freight debtors & creditors in an expeditious manner. 
    • Ensures the department (cost center) achieves it financial and quality objectives. 

 

Skills required

  • High school diploma or G.E.D. 
  • Familiarity with basic freight forwarding procedures 
  • Essentially two years of previous related experience with Air  and Ocean Export 
  • Experience with Microsoft office 
  • Experience with EDI a plus 
  • Excellent customer service and administration skills 
  • Attention to detail 
  • Excellent time management 
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines 
  • Resilient 
  • Customer focused 
  • Shows initiative and drive 
  • Team orientated 

 

What you can expect?

Working at Röhlig means to live internationality: Every day staff members around the world cooperate on developing logistics solutions for their customers. Smart minds with drive encounter numerous opportunities to play a vital role in this process. Flat hierarchies, a pleasant and friendly work environment, considerable opportunities for personal development and long-term career planning provide the basis for your success.


Our benefits

As a family-owned business we strive to be employee orientated and offer a comprehensive benefits package with a focus on your wellbeing.

  • This package includes full health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), life insurance, disability, and pet insurance.
  • Röhlig offers competitive compensation, 401k with employer match, PTO (you even get your birthday off too!), and a highly dynamic global work environment.

 

We look forward to meeting you!

Your contact

Mark Aulisio
Recruiter
Rohlig USA
1743 Linneman Rd. Mount Prospect, IL 60056

Telephone: 224-563-3240
mark.aulisio@rohlig.com