Logistics Specialist

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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, understanding of Microsoft Excel, database functions, and 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)

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally manually lift or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.