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
