Sea Freight Operations Manager

Boundless Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boundless Consulting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, seeks a Sea Freight Operations Manager to lead the logistics team, shape strategy, and drive growth within the sea freight operations framework.

The role involves coordinating with customs, port authorities, and shipping lines; monitoring KPIs; and managing budgets, resources, and staff development. A bachelor’s degree and 7+ years’ experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in the same position.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and strategy for a sea freight operations team to promote growth within the company, through realizing current and future business opportunities.
• Lead and overseeing of all day-to-day operations within the department to ensure that the services being provided are organized and in accordance with the local legislation and operations is running in a smooth manner.
• Liaise with Customs, Port Authorities, and Shipping Lines as and where necessary to ensure that all rules and regulations are being followed properly.
• Monitoring and reporting of key performance parameters to ensure the department is running as efficiently as possible with budget planning, people and equipment resources planning, people development, and training.
• Ability to Identify business & process improvement opportunities, and provide recommendations running of the ocean department. Involvement with Post-Sales activities and Manage Major RFQs.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Operations management

Stakeholder liaison

KPIs & reporting

Budget planning

RFQ management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Job description

About the job Sea Freight Operations Manager

Opportunity #371

The Client:

Our client, a diversified investment group covering multiple domains in the UAE and the region. It specializes in high-end quality products and providing the market with superior marketing solutions and is looking to hire a Sea Freight Operations Managerfor its Logistics division.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and strategy for a sea freight operations team to promote growth within the company, through realizing current and future business opportunities.
• Lead and overseeing of all day-to-day operations within the department to ensure that the services being provided are organized and in accordance with the local legislation and operations is running in a smooth manner.
• Liaise with Customs, Port Authorities, and Shipping Lines as and where necessary to ensure that all rules and regulations are being followed properly.
• Monitoring and reporting of key performance parameters to ensure the department is running as efficiently as possible with budget planning, people and equipment resources planning, people development, and training.
• Ability to Identify business & process improvement opportunities, and provide recommendations running of the ocean department. Involvement with Post-Sales activities and Manage Major RFQs.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in the same position.