Senior Trade Executive, Africa Trade

Primary Objective

Assist the Gateway Trade Manager in overall commercial activities of your assigned service(s) and geographic area(s)

Key Responsibilities

Vessel performance

• Monitor total booking velocity/trend, manage shortfalls/rollovers
• Monitor vessel profile, drive cargo mix to maximise profitability
• Proactively recommend trade strategy (to adapt to, and capitalise on changing market conditions) in terms of pricing adjustments, constraining or relaxing booking releases (in general, and also by specific segments - TL strategy/colour to apply)

Fulfilment of country origin allocations

• Monitor and understand origins ability and/or challenges to achieve allocated volumes
• Help resolve issues such as pricing, feeder, equipment shortage, etc.
• Drive discussion with origin and HO teams to finetune allocations as necessary dependent on conditions

Customer performance (Trade PIC)

• Negotiate pricing and volume commitment (MQC)
• Drive delivery of volume commitment
• Manage space allocations and ad-hoc pricing requests

Market intel

• Keep up to speed with market rate adjustments
• Proactively source for relevant information on market capacity changes

What We're Looking For

• Minimum Diploma Holder, preferably in shipping, logistics management or business administration
• 2-3 years relevant working experience in the shipping / logistics / freight forwarding industry
• Proficient in MS Excel (Vlookup and Pivot Table)
• Trade management/knowledge, especially in Africa, will be a huge plus

**This role is open for local employment only

**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

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