Supervisor, Air Operations

Manage all day to day operational activities for this initiative and ensure forwarding full compliance with SOP and express fulfillment of commitments;
Liaise with carriers on capacities, ensure BSA fulfillment and service commitment compliance;
Work with forwarding and express operational management on project scope changes, performance monitoring and measurement, and revisions to SOP and process flows;
Continuously assess project PL and identify areas of improvement both operationally and commercially.
Volume and PL responsibility as per FY targets YOY basis.

The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:

Extensive experience in an Airfreight role in Supply Chain / Freight Forwarding / Logistics, ideally from within industry, with the ability to motivate the teams.

Experience in supporting the commercial organization by doing New Business and Retention Calls with Salespeople.

Ability to provide market intelligence to the commercial organization for product growth.

Drive profitable and sustainable Business Growth.

Ability to create and develop an Air Freight strategy with an interpretation of the Locations s Air strategy.

An expert level understanding and knowledge of Air Freight including trades such as Asia, Europe, and the US.

An exceptional knowledge of the marketplace and of financial management processes including job costing, console profitability, financial forecasting, reporting and budgeting.

Significant experience of negotiating short, medium and long terms deals, SLA s, and managing complex supplier relationships.

An expert level ability to assess commercial/business risk versus reward coupled with effective and decisive decision-making.

Direct experience of structured buying processes such as; RFI s, RFQ s, e-tenders, multiple tender rounds, and other procurement techniques.

Experience in the maintenance and management of rate contract database/files