Carrier Manager

Carrier Manager

Fulltime, 38 hours per week

Are you looking for a Carrier Manager role within the fastest growing retail organization? As Action is growing, so will you. You will have the opportunity to further shape and establish the role within Action. Are you ready to make an impact? Read on

Your daily Actions

Working at Action isn't like working at any other company. With more than 2500 stores, 12 distribution centers, hubs, crossdocks and an ambitious growth plan, our supply chain is always evolving. In this role you will build up a good relation with all partners important for Action, with the purpose to get things done. Key to the role is ongoing development and implementation of KPI's with partners, to ensure the performance/quality rate. Additionally, you will participate in periodic business reviews with contracted carriers.

To prepare for the future you will be constantly participating in projects and improvement initiatives with internal and external stakeholders to improve processes and secure scalability to support Actions constant growth.

You will be responsible for monitoring the Origin process together with our Origin operation partners to ensure follow up on forecast, carrier volume allocations, on-time booking and on time departure and maintain a clear overview of shipment progress.
Additionally you will have regular communication with Destination booking agent teams to support or escalate any issues occurring on the destination side.

Internal stakeholders can depend on you for clear overview of KPI's shipping status, follow up of downfall, overdue bookings, invoicing issues and escalations when needed.

As you will be part of the carrier management team, you will be part of the operational backup structure of this team so you will also be developing view on your colleagues task.
In Actions constant growth, there will be need for flexibility as the role will be part of continuous change.

Meet your team

With over employees and more than 2.600 stores, Action is growing extremely fast as we are expanding our market share but also penetrating new markets. With more intake on inventory and more DC's each year, we are called to manage a more complex network. Working at Action means working at a dynamic and fast paced company where you continuously are challenged to operate today's business and support future growth.

Our Inbound Logistics department is responsible for importing a yearly growing number of over container TEU between Asia and Europe. We are developing a multi-layer network for Action in Europe and Asia with Hubs and Cross docks to secure Action Direct Import flow over 12 European countries which will be expanding constantly in the coming years.

As Carrier Manager you are part of a team of 4 persons that is responsible for all ocean freight operations between our (mostly Asian) origins and all European destination ports for all Action Direct import flows. Also we manage freight volumes of some our suppliers and a CFS operation in Ningbo.
The Carrier Manager is reporting to the Ocean Freight Manager

This is you

You have a great sense of responsibility and ownership. You are interested to know the details, but also have the ability to zoom out, see the overview and make decisions. You are very organized, able to structure activities, stick to agreements within deadlines. You work efficiently and effectively, also when under time pressure. You have strong communication skills (communication with internal and external stakeholders). You are eager to learn from colleagues to get a broad understanding of the processes and procedures, and you have good numerical skills.

Furthermore you have:

Bachelor degree 5-7 years of Logistics work experience, inbound domain is a pre. Very good English in speaking and writing Excellent knowledge of Excel / PowerPoint / easy adaption to IT systems of any kind SAP knowledge is a pre.

What we offer

Market-based salary 24 holiday days and the option to buy 5 extra days a year (based on 38 hours) A company laptop and mobile phone Flexible working hours The option to participate within a collective health insurance scheme 15% staff discount on Action merchandise

Interested?

Take action and apply now

The next steps:

Our recruiter will review your application and get back to you as soon as possible. We invite you for a first job interview. We would like to get to know you better, which is why we ask you to take an online assessment. We will invite you for a second interview and we will discuss your assessment Are will still a great match? Then we will become new colleagues

Contact our recruiter for more information

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