Deputy Manager - Operations

Job Function

Secure Freight Management

Job Summary

The Deputy Manager - Project Freight and Pricing (Secure Freight Management) is responsible for preparing customer proposals and/or tender documents and fulfilling orders, from identifying customer needs, developing proposals. He/She is also responsible for managing customers and coordinating with colleagues during the entire process. He/She is also responsible for managing freight business resources, including manpower, internal assets and external vendors.
Resourceful and analytical, he/she is required to manage resources to obtain buy-in from internal and external stakeholders. He/She is also expected to lead a team, make business decisions independently and be accountable for the profit and loss of the team.
 

Job Responsibilities/Key Tasks(External)

•    Develop freight shipment solutions for improvements and/or closing gaps
•    Maintain relationships with vendors, carriers, freight fowarders and port authorities to provide competitive shipping solutions to customers
•    Monitor lapses in delivery of logistics services to customers
•    Implement intervention strategies to mitigate gaps in delivery of logistics services
•    Communicate to employees on the variations in rating principles, states as well as operator variations
•    Manage carrier ranking or customer priority system to ensure strategic business is protected during periods of capacity shortage
•    Manage teams in the workplace
•    Develop measures to improve vendor management capability in the organization

Job Requirements

Professional Qualifications & Relevant Experience

•   5-8 years of relevant experience will be preferred

•   Singaporean only