Assistant Manager - Shipping

Confidential Jobs; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics and freight management company based in Dubai is seeking a candidate to oversee international freight and logistics operations. Responsibilities include optimizing logistics models, enhancing processes, and managing team performance while ensuring compliance across GCC/MENA. Ideal candidates should have substantial experience in freight management, cost optimization, and logistics service provider management.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing logistics service providers and leading teams.
• Solid background in data analysis and process improvement.
• Strong understanding of import/export processes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate logistics models and drive cost savings.
• Monitor team and vendor performance through KPIs.
• Provide consultation on logistics requirements.

Skills

Freight management

Cost optimization

Vendor management

Data-driven analysis

Logistics cost modeling

KPI management

MS Excel

Power BI

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

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 evalute 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
• Analyse performance, costs, actively drive cost savings/ efficiency improvement projects

Functional / Technical Competencies

• Freight management
• Experience with 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