Logistics Manager - Shipping

Job description / Role

Logistics Manager - Shipping - Gambia, West Africa

- Logistics - UAC units, claims, demurrage, and monthly demurrage reports
- Export responsibilities - Freight manifests, ensuring timely shipping documents for customs, overview released bookings, securing quick transit times from POL-POD, maintaing relationships with customers, maintaining a good relationship between export and sales departments
- Import - Manifests, extraction of EDI files, secure strict BL procedures.
- Operation - Coordinate vessel calls with Operations, final checkup of CASP files.
- Monthly reports - Logistics, Import, export, customer service, and documentation.

Requirements

- 4+ years of experience as a Logistics Manager or in a supervisory role within a logistics department
- Experience within the international shipping industry
- Experience of working in Africa
- A second language would be advantageous

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.