Ocean Freight Procurement Manager North & Central America

Job Title: Ocean Freight Procurement Manager North & Central America
Location: Edison, NJ

Job Purpose:

The Ocean Freight Procurement Manager North & Central America assumes ownership for the whole freight negotiation process on all North America, Mexico, and Central America export lanes for Hillebrand Gori.

This includes a footprint of over 45,000 TEUs of business.

If you are a dynamic and results-oriented professional with experience in managing national or global customers, we would love to hear from you! Join our team at Hillebrand Gori and contribute to our success in delivering 🌍 world-class logistics solutions 📦 to our valued customers.

Key Responsibilities:


* Reporting to Group Ocean Freight Procurement, supports the North / Central America organization in securing their ocean transport needs.

Work with internal departments, sales, operations, across multiple business lines to anticipate requirements and implement procurement action accordingly.


* Analyze tradelanes supply & demand, services and preferred options per trade, analyze freight indexes and anticipate market trends


* Manage and build relationship with key decision makers with the ocean carriers to run export freight negotiations and strategies.


* Run the actual freight procurement exercise, define optimum process, from actual tenders to spot buying, from mid to long term contracts with commitments, to spot and opportunistic terms.


* Proper internal communication and coordination of carrier policy adopted, of contracts negotiated, follow up on volume performances.


* Provide pricing guidance to both locally and centrally managed accounts / tenders, in coordination with the actual account owner.


* Develop annual volume and spend analysis to measure freight spend, and identify opportunities for optimization.


* Participation to Global Sales / Corporate Account tenders


* Administrative support for BECS service contracts negotiated overseas by the Group Ocean Freight team for USA import flows.


* Manage and build relationship with key decision makers with the ocean carriers to support USA import freight, free times, per diem, carrier haulages negotiations


* Develop and maintain relationships with terminal operators, develop D&D opportunities

Professional Contacts


* Internal – Global accounts team, Group Procurement team, Country, Sales, and Operational managers, North America leadership team


* External – Trade and Commercial decision makers with ocean carriers

Qualifications:


* Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, International Trade, or a related field. 


* Minimum 5-7 years of experience in ocean freight procurement, carrier management, freight forwarding, logistics, or supply chain management, preferably within international transportation.


* Demonstrated experience negotiating ocean freight contracts, service agreements,...