Import/export Forwarding Agent

2 months ago


SaintLaurent, Canada FedEx Trade Networks Full time

**Job Summary**

**Responsibilities**

**BOOKING AND PROCESSING**
- Liaises with overseas agents & offices, airlines, surface transportation & warehousing vendors to plan activities and provide solutions
- Coordinates movement of shipment deliveries & pickups to ensure that the customers' instructions are followed
- Manages all aspects of freight transportation, including booking of shipments, updates of status reports & customer service, tracking and tracing, providing proof of delivery
- Ensures timely availability of shipment to customer through coordination of carriers, distribution of deliveries, warehousing, customs clearance & other surface transportation activities
- Books shipments with the best routing/rate while still maintaining validity of the customer’s quote/needs
- Ensures proper inco-terms on export shipments to determine specific actions required
- Administers receipt of purchase orders from customers & ensures completeness of documentation required in order to obtain customs clearance
- Calculates rate quotes for shipments based on pre-authorized fee schedule from overseas offices
- Issues freight invoices to customers and approves vendor invoices for accounting department
- Addresses any invoice discrepancies that may arise
- Calculates profit & loss end results for each shipment using Profit Share Settlement document, debit notes and/or credit notes
- Issues Profit Share Statement, Debit Note & Credit Note to destination offices and agents for exports
- Follows International rules and Regulations pertaining to other countries to avoid penalties.

**TRACKING SHIPMENTS**
- Traces and tracks shipments on daily basis including co-load shipments
- Contacts carriers, overseas and various warehouses for shipments status and logs shipment information into Galaxy on daily basis
- Manages all pre-booking information that shows port of loading, shipper, PO# or style, shipping line, ETD & ETA dates, pieces, weight, dimensions

**CUSTOMER SERVICE AND COORDINATION**
- Responsible to ensure that customer requirements are adhered to when planning and executing shipments
- Responsible for pro-actively communicating status of customer shipments and mitigating any delays
- Provides logistics solutions to customer needs by coordinating with product lines and pricing
- Coordinates all services to be handled by single contact personnel such as calls from customers, brokers and truckers to provide the required information
- Liaises all services between Customers, Brokers and Carriers by providing special instructions to carriers and monitoring time sensitive cargo on an hourly/daily basis in order to ensure timely arrival and delivery of cargo
- Adheres to customer requirements prior to shipping and monitors release of containers that have been held by Customs i.e. Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Drug Control
- Coordinates with trucking team including pickup appointment and carrier selection.
- Resolves issues regarding appointment, picking up shipment, waiting time and any other issues when necessary in order to meet customer requirements.
- Ensures that warehouse release operations run smoothly by coordinating with trucking team
- Educates customers on the regulations for exporting to specific countries
- Obtains rates for cartage & warehousing, and negotiates spot rates with overseas offices & agents for customers that require special needs
- Responds to requests for quotations by potential customers by gathering information for clearances & delivery for our overseas offices & agents
- Responds to queries on transportation and warehousing costs to our customers

**MANDATORY DANGEROUS GOODS (DG) TRAINING**
- Incumbent to mandatorily complete all DG training courses, as assigned (ex. IATA Dangerous Goods - Vendor, IMDG Dangerous Goods - Vendor, Right-Shipments to countries with no representation)

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required**
- 1 year college education in International Trade/Customs
- High School Diploma and CIFFA designation required
- Minimum 3 years of experience in International Import transportation, preferably in a Transportation brokerage company
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office, Four-Soft software for E-trans system, Outlook and office equipment
- Certificate in Dangerous Goods - Mandatory (in house Training)
- A self-starter with strong customer service and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Excellent communication, organization, inter-personal, and problem solving skills are required

**Résumé du poste**
Ce poste est responsable de fournir un service complet (de A à Z) à nos clients qui exportent des marchandises à l'international, en utilisant tous les modes de transport.
Il est également chargé d'aider les clients à recevoir leur envoi à temps avec un minimum de retards et de coordonner les expéditions d'exportation en fonction des besoins de chaque client.
Ce poste exige aussi de communiquer tout changement de plan au client et d'appliquer des


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