Sea Freight Operation Manager

About the role

Provide leadership and strategy for a sea freight operations team to promote growth within the company, through realising current and future business opportunities.

What you will be doing

• Lead and overseeing of all day-to-day operations within the department to ensure that the services being provided are organized and in accordance to the local legislation and operations is running in smooth manner.
• Liaise with Customs, Port Authorities and Shipping Lines as and where necessary to ensure that all rules and regulations are being followed properly.
• Monitoring and reporting of key performance parameters to ensure department is running as efficiently as possible with budget planning, people and equipment resources planning, people development and training.
• Ability to Identify business & process improvement opportunities, and provide recommendations. Running of the ocean department.
• Involvement with Post-Sales activities and engage to validate Major RFQs

Specific Activities

• Carrying out any other request made by their manager.

The successful candidate

Technical

• Have minimum 7 years of relevant experience and preferably, with P&L functionality
• Must have experience with staff management functionality.
• Minimum Diploma preferably related to Logistics, and/or Marketing’s discipline
• Familiar with Trade Regulatory requirements
• Good contact with major Carriers and cargo transport/hauliers service providers.
• Familiar with major trade lane business/competition environments
• Familiar with Cargowise, ISO or Quality related Business Practices.

Behavioural

• Strong desire to achieve Customer Focused Organisation.

Language

• Fluent in English + local language

You will enjoy:

• Dental
• Medical
• Parking
• Birthday Leave
• Festival Leave