Job Summary
The incumbent will be part of a larger team within the IFF department in providing seamless and customer-focused solutions to support the achievement of business objectives.
What you will be doing
·      Carrier Management
·      Negotiate buying rates to ensure profitability of business
·      Manage the purchasing performance tool within the Department
·      Optimize profitability: Control of bookings through a cockpit, re-purchase when opportunities are identified
·      Escalation points for final validation of DMP (BOLLORE rates approval platform)
·      Work on yield improvement solutions
·      Validation of input for tender bidding
·      Establish guidelines for pricing and procurement in alignment to Middle Office direction
·      Work closely with the sea freight planning team to define and formalize the booking instructions (Routing, Carrier, Schedule) according to customer’s constraints and MO Solutions’ strategy
·      Preform cross-functional collaboration (Business Units, internal customer and pricing) to meet with required information including: Transport mode, price, and transit time
·      Monitor price movements and seasonal price fluctuations
·      Analyze and report on monthly business performance (at GM meeting)
·      Weekly report on vendor management and tasks activities to Head of Sea Freight
·      Design solutions for new products / line by building product strategy with General Manager – Sales
·      Support Vertical / KA managers in marketing / pricing evaluation with economic analyses
·      Provide guidance and correct errors in the company’s internal pricing platform
·      Conduct interviews and recruit junior staff
Team Management
·      Ensure and monitor team compliance to the Bollore’s Code of Conduct and Company’s regulations
·      Ensure team understanding and implementation on Bollore’s Value in daily work behaviors
·      Plan and monitor team performance including give coaching and counselling needed to deliver expected outcomes
·      Plan and monitor team development together with HR Division
·      Ensure updated Job Description availability for the team by coordinating with HR Division
·      Ensure all changes in Department / Section communicated properly to the team
·      Provide support and expertise to MO Operations when needed (e.g. specific quotation requirement)
The successful candidate
·      Bachelor’s degree requirement with min. 10 years of Seafreight experience
·      Minimum 5 years of experience in a fast paced and dynamic multi-cultural MNC environment. In Freight-forwarding or Logistics industry will be a plus.
·      Understanding of margin (yield) management
·      Good relations with carriers
·      Resourceful, result oriented and able to work under pressure
·      Excellent organizational skills
·      Good inter-personal skills, able to communicate precisely and effectively
·      Motivated, driven and result-oriented
·      Able to work well in a team as well as independently
·      Meticulous, analytical, and able to multi-task in a fast-moving environment
·      Highly initiative
·      Intermediate Access skill preferred
·      Export Excel skills such as V-look up, macros, pivot tables, is statement, VBA, and ability to create complex formulas and models
·      Good Command of written and spoken English
