Deputy/Assistant Manager Procurement- Sea Cargo

Location: Ahmehdabad, Gujarat; Mumbai, Maharashtra
Department: Product Management
Compensation: Enquiry & Rate Management  •    Receiving enquires from shipper/overseas agents / sales & acknowledging within 2hrs  •    Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys  •    Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent  •    Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent  •    Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers  •    Ensure best price in the business  •    Finalizing RFQ’S for ocean freight movements  •    Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.  Pricing  •    Act as SPOC for Pricing & Nominations on a Pan India basis.  •    Ensuring space availability and solving out equipment and space problem with carriers.  •    Filing the ocean freight rates with shipping lines for various destinations  •    Respond to Global RFQ’s / Local rate request.  •     Analyzing RFQ’s received from customers and responds them with  pricing solutions  •    Relationship Management  •    Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers  •    Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations  •    Attending customer’s queries locally & all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.  •    Develop & maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.  •    Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive & Branch offices (Overseas Agents & in India’s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.  •    Negotiate for freight with Liner’s/Forwarders (FCL/LCL both) and share the same with the marketing persons on weekly basis. Co-ordination with carriers/feeder operators/agents for rates.  •    Develop & maintain pricing database for Air & Ocean FCL/LCL both on an ongoing basis.  •    Filing freights in lines and updating freights in system for Air & sea both.  •    Support to the seniors with analysis of performance data to facilitate management decision making.  •    Generate Market Information and disseminate the same through relevant channels to sales.  •    Daily reporting to HOD.