Senior Ocean Freight Coordinator

Overseas Cargo • Miami, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Coordinate shipments from various domestic and foreign Suppliers. This is not a remote job and requires the candidate to be located in the Miami area. The role involves managing the entire lifecycle of ocean freight shipments, ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery while maintaining excellent customer service.

Requirements

• Excellent hands-on working knowledge of US Domestic freight transportation via truck, rail, rail piggyback, airfreight, and ocean freight.
• Hands-on experience coordinating ocean freight shipments.
• Working knowledge of cross-dock, freight consolidation, container loading, and port dray operations.
• Experience in ocean freight documentation, filing electronic AES Entries.
• Pricing Analysis and negotiation skills - ability to perform freight cost analysis, negotiate rates, read ocean rates, harmonized classifications, and complete bills of ladings.
• Knowledge of handling time and temperature sensitive shipments.
• Excellent Customer Service skills.
• Experience in handling perishable goods is important.
• Excellent computer skills, use of shipping software, Excel, Word and Data Entry Systems.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret transportation and purchase documents.
• Ability to clearly express yourself both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts with percentages, area and volumes.
• Ability to resolve practical operational problems and deal with a variety of variables and situations that require the cooperation of many individuals to get the work completed on time within budget.

Nice To Haves

• Technical training in Traffic/Transportation, US Customs, or related field is a PLUS.
• Prefer bilingual English & Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate shipments from various domestic and foreign Suppliers.
• Review purchase orders in the system to determine weekly scheduling of activity and movement of purchase orders.
• Book ocean freight with carriers.
• Follow established guidelines and process inbound shipments via cross-dock facilities.
• Determine shipment origin points and set up pickup plans.
• Follow up daily, weekly, and monthly on pending shipments to meet required purchase order service levels and inventory balances.
• Communicate shipment information and transit issues internally and externally with buyers, product suppliers, and transportation suppliers.
• Schedule shipments with Suppliers, truckers, warehouses, brokers, ship companies, and buyers.
• Update systems with shipment data and produce all required documents for AES, US Customs, Shipping Companies, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed