Freight Forwarding Specialist

Freight Forwarding Agent

Hours: Monday – Friday, 2:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Provide on-site coordination of Expedited Forwarding and Elite air and ground shipments.
• Coordinating import and export shipments at gateway, including shipment and document preparation, booking, customs clearance, as well as pick-up and delivery.
• A candidate with established contacts with airlines and carriers for bookings and preferred rates is ideal for this role. Experience in Expedited Freight Forwarding is a must.
• Coordination with airlines. Carriers and brokers to procure scheduling and rates, as well as administration of these activities
• Routing of shipments and preparation of pre-alert documentation
• Booking of all air and ground shipments with appropriate carrier
• Coordinates pick-up and delivery of shipments with shipper/consignee
• Enters all shipments and related information into Beacon as required in a timely manner
• Updates internal systems with shipment details and status as available in real-time
• Follow up on all Expedited shipments to ensure Customer commitments are met.
• Document Preparation specific to a given shipment, including but not limited to MAWB, HAWB, Commercial Invoice, and Certification of Origin
• Maintain carrier related tables and data in Beacon to keep system with the most up to date rates and services
• Develop route structures and pricing for large scale, complex domestic and international RFP’s.
• Develop pricing and routing for ground expedites, NFO air freight including; cargo airlines, passenger airlines, chartered aircraft, deferred air freight.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers, carriers and vendors.
• Evaluate rates from vendors and carriers to ensure they are competitive and market based.
• Recommend rate changes based on market-based pricing to manager of Expedite operations.
• Prepare and analyze Expedite report on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Ensure Expedite emails and phones are covered.

Requirements:

• Expedited Freight Forwarding experience is a must

• Preparing MAWB, HAWB, and Bills of Lading

• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English (preferred although not a requirement)

• 3-5 years of position-related experience is typically needed to perform your position at a competent level

• Experience in both import and export procedures

• Experience in customs documentation preparation

• Experience in Expedited Freight Forwarding

• Experience obtaining local pickup and delivery agents

• Experience with Aircraft on Ground (AOG) process and procedures

• Experience in Microsoft office products