Expeditors

Air Export Agent

Posted on: 13 Dec 2021

Hazelwood, MO

Job Description

Job Description

Scope of Position:  

Assist Manager and Supervisor with all aspects of the Air Export Department, while ensuring the proper and timely movement of freight, while providing an exceptional customer service.

Ensure smooth and timely freight process flow.
Prepare various documents for international transportation.
Coordinate and negotiate rates with our contracted vendors in procuring space and services.
Ensure accurate and timely client and vendors billing.
Ensure accurate and timely data entry into our operating system.
Interact with our customers in arranging their international export shipments, meeting customer service standards.
Meet compliance at all times to regulations. This includes internal policies and procedures such as Operational Process Standards (OPS) and external government regulations or customer policies / requirements.
Understand department process flow, constantly looking for areas of improved efficiency.
Ensure all customers standard operating procedures are followed as per the DLSOP.
Work with the team on meeting KPI standards, as per the company’s procedures.
Monitor shipment reports to ensure total customer satisfaction
Overseas communications

Support the supervisor in the following areas:

Daily review Stat 1 and operational reports and work with team on updating event codes
Audit files and work with the team on meeting operating process standards
Build and maintaining strong relationships with vendors (airlines, trucking companies, and others) and customers.
Evaluate vendors at defined intervals per company policy, focusing on areas of possible improvements with corrective action plans where needed.

Finances:

Proactively work to maintain and monitor accounts payment within 30 days.
Ensure company credit procedures are followed and utilized effectively.
Accurate and timely billing of vendors and resolve accounting issues.
Monitor accounts payable to vendors (airlines, truckers etc.) utilizing BNP report.
Monitor intercompany accounting discrepancies via AJAX report.

Sales / Retention:

Assist the manager and supervisor in timely responding to requests for information and with market competitive pricing matching the scope of service required by the customer.
Participate to the transition of new business/ updates to existing business.
Assist in retention calls and complete customer reviews with your regular customers to document in the CRS.

People:

Identify with manager / supervisor, develop, and mentor your No. 2.
Support the supervisor where needed: 
Allocate workloads within team to ensure smooth operations during peak activity or staff absence.
Be a guide for the team - mentor agents
Ensure team meets company standards of 52 hours training per year per employee.
Follow-up new hires training as per the company requirement standards.
Periodically communicate department goals and expectations with team to ensure buy-in and accountability.

Systems:

Promote productivity tools (e.g. using edoc and edoc treeview, export database, process management)
Be open to implementing new system changes and enhancements with your team.  
Be involved and suggest system/process improvements. 
Set the tone of this environment within your team.

Expeditors

Seattle, WA

Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The Company employs trained professionals in 176 district offices and numerous branch locations located on six continents linked into a seamless worldwide network through an integrated information management system.

Services include the consolidation or forwarding of air and ocean freight, customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-definite transportation services, order management, warehousing and distribution, and customized logistics solutions. 

At Expeditors, we generate highly optimized and customized supply chain solutions for our clients with unified technology systems integrated through a global network of 322 locations in 103 countries on six continents. As a service-based company, we don’t own the aircraft, ships, or trucks we use every day. This means we can be highly flexible in our approach to supply chain management, and very effective at finding the best route and pricing options.

 

 

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