Logistics Coordinator - International Freight

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Description

• This position assists with determining cost and pricing, procedure development, and compliance with respect to international freight shipments. • Prepare shipping freight forwarding requests for quotes and analyze freight forwarder rates and air or ocean carrier routings to award and manage U.S. and foreign shipments. • Ensure that regulatory requirements are met, that shipments have the correct paperwork, such as commercial invoices and packing lists and ensure that documentation is processed and distributed in a timely way to carriers, forwarders, customers, and customs agents based on customer orders and shipping instructions. • Maintain accurate costs and profits by overseeing and completing proper billing to clients based on agreed pricing. • Ensuring the end-to-end delivery by collaborating with internal and external parties and communicating proactively with domestic and overseas partners, terminals, and other modes of transportation. • Develop techniques and procedures for transporting commodities from local or offshore locations to warehouses, other storage offices, or final consignee locations for nominated shippers. • Develop and manage successful relationships with local suppliers and other co-load carriers (for example, airline agents, freight forwarders, customs brokers, local pickup and delivery firms, regional trucking companies, and line-haul providers). • Perform prompt and accurate data entry requests into various internal systems. • Maintain polite, timely, and efficient world-class customer service.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in the international logistics industry. • Extensive experience with Major Carriers (FedEx, UPS, DHL) as well as with International Freight Forwarders • Excellent writing and speaking skills to communicate effectively in complex situations. • Work actively with innovative thinking and fast execution to speed up the progress of tasks/projects. • Proficient in ERP, Salesforce and understanding of Microsoft Excel and database functions, as well as competence with them. • Mindset that is outgoing and forward-thinking, with the capacity to decode problems quickly. • Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations at the state, federal, and international levels as they pertain to the core services supplied (i.e., customs, security, other import, and export government agencies)