Assistant Manager - Shipping
About This Role
We're Hiring: Assistant Shipping Manager
Are you an experienced logistics professional with a passion for operational excellence? We are looking for a driven Assistant Shipping Manager to join and lead international freight operations with a strong focus on efficiency, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Role Summary
The role oversees international freight and logistics operations, ensuring cost efficiency, compliance, and service excellence. It involves evaluating logistics models, driving cost savings, and enhancing processes through data-driven decision making. The position manages vendor and team performance, fosters stakeholder collaboration, and ensures smooth import/export operations across GCC/MENA.
Responsibilities
- Actively works on opportunities to bring in cost savings, enhance processes
- Structured approach towards problem solving through data driven decision making
- Well versed with transportation logistics industry, vendor capabilities, compliance
- Is able to run cost simulations to evaluate various logistics models to assist business requirements
- Assist the internal stakeholders by providing consultation on any logistics requirements
- Monitor team performance and vendor performance through regular reviews of KPIs
- Well aware of importation and exportation process, focusing on GCC/MENA
- Responsible to manage a team executing international freight
- Aware of the importation and exportation rules, freight cost structures
- Extensive interactions with LSPs to work out logistics solutions that bring about efficiency, cost savings
- Guide and mentor, the team, set measurable KPIs for service providers and team
- Analyze performance, costs, actively drive cost savings/ efficiency improvement projects
Functional / Technical Competencies
- Freight management Experience
- Proven track record in cost optimization, vendor management, and driving process improvements.
- Experience in managing logistics service providers (LSPs) and leading high-performing teams.
- Solid background in data-driven analysis, KPI management, and logistics cost modeling.
- Strong Understanding of MS Excel, Power BI, Powerpoint
Role Qualifications:
- Graduate in Logistics / Supply Chain. Post Graduate degree in same discipline will have an added advantage
- Excellent Analytics skills and the different data analytics tools mainly excel.
- Previous experience in Retail is a plus
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