Logistics Manager
SPIRO
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Job summary
Spiro is seeking a Logistics Manager - International Freight Forwarding (IFF) in Pune to lead end‑to‑end ocean, air and multimodal shipments from global suppliers to Spiro's facilities across Africa. You will drive RFQ management, carrier relationships, and cost optimization while ensuring on‑time delivery and compliance.
This role requires close collaboration with freight forwarders, shipping lines, brokers, and country logistics teams to maintain shipment visibility, mitigate risks, and
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, International Business or related field.
- Professional certifications such as CILT, APICS/ASCM, FIATA Diploma, or equivalent is an advantage.
- 8–12 years of international freight forwarding and global logistics experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead international freight RFQs covering ocean, air and multimodal transport.
- Develop RFQ strategies and maintain the Global RFQ Tracker.
- Coordinate shipment bookings and ensure alignment with production schedules.
- Monitor shipments and provide end-to-end visibility.
- Manage demurrage and detention exposure and drive cost optimization.
- Lead a logistics team ensuring operational excellence and compliance.
- Prepare monthly logistics performance dashboards.
Skills
Education
Job description
Logistics Manager - International Freight Forwarding (IFF)
Location: Pune, India Department: Logistics
Reports To: Head of Logistics
The Logistics Manager - International Freight Forwarding (IFF) will lead Spiro's international freight forwarding operations from Pune, managing the end-to-end execution of ocean, air and multimodal shipments from global suppliers to Spiro's manufacturing and assembly facilities across East and West Africa.
This role is accountable for carrier procurement support, RFQ management, freight cost analysis, booking execution, shipment visibility, stakeholder communication, and performance management of logistics service providers. The Logistics Manager will lead a team of logistics professionals while remaining fully accountable for operational excellence, cost optimization, service reliability, compliance, and continuous improvement.
The Logistics Manager is accountable for minimizing total logistics costs by proactively managing freight execution, shipment visibility, and container demurrage and detention exposure across all African markets through disciplined daily operational control and stakeholder coordination.
The role requires close collaboration with suppliers, freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs brokers, inspection agencies, and Spiro's country logistics teams to ensure shipments move seamlessly from origin to destination.
- Lead all international freight RFQs covering ocean, air, road and multimodal transportation.
- Develop RFQ strategies that maximize competition while ensuring service reliability.
- Float RFQs to approved freight forwarders, shipping lines and logistics partners.
- Maintain the Global RFQ Tracker ensuring complete visibility of all sourcing activities.
- Evaluate commercial and technical proposals using predefined scorecards.
- Conduct detailed benchmarking of freight rates against market indices and historical trends.
- Prepare recommendation reports for management approval.
- Support annual and spot freight procurement exercises.
- Maintain approved carrier and freight forwarder database.
- Develop strategic relationships with global shipping lines, NVOCCs and freight forwarders.
- Participate in quarterly business reviews with logistics partners.
- Monitor carrier allocation commitments, equipment availability and schedule reliability.
- Coordinate carrier rate filing and validity management.
- Negotiate operational improvements and service recovery plans.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives with logistics partners.
- Escalate operational risks before they impact business continuity.
- Coordinate shipment bookings in line with cargo readiness.
- Ensure bookings align with production schedules and inventory requirements.
- Liaise with suppliers to confirm cargo availability.
- Monitor timely cargo handover to freight forwarders.
- Ensure all shipping documentation is complete and accurate.
- Coordinate amendments to bookings whenever production schedules change.
- Monitor loading activities and vessel departures.
- Ensure shipment milestones are updated within agreed timelines.
- Monitor shipments throughout the transportation lifecycle.
- Maintain complete shipment visibility from origin until arrival at the destination port through to final delivery to the respective manufacturing plants.
- Identify potential disruptions before they affect delivery timelines.
- Coordinate recovery plans with carriers and freight forwarders.
- Track vessel schedules, transshipment performance and schedule changes.
- Ensure shipment milestones are accurately captured in internal tracking systems.
- Coordinate with Spiro's country logistics teams across Africa.
- Ensure timely transmission of shipping documents.
- Support customs clearance planning before vessel arrival.
- Ensure timely delivery of cargo from the Port of Discharge to manufacturing and assembly plants.
- Resolve operational bottlenecks affecting cargo movement.
- Coordinate urgent escalations with internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor freight expenditure against approved budgets.
- Identify cost optimization opportunities.
- Maintain freight savings tracker.
Develop and monitor KPIs including:
- Shipment Visibility Accuracy
Prepare monthly logistics performance dashboards for management.
Own the end-to-end monitoring, control, and reduction of container demurrage and detention exposure across all international shipments.
- Establish and maintain a daily Demurrage & Detention (D&D) Tracker for all inbound shipments.
- Monitor free time utilization from container discharge through empty container return.
- Proactively identify containers at risk of incurring demurrage or detention charges and drive timely mitigation actions.
- Coordinate closely with freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs brokers, transporters, and Spiro's country logistics teams to ensure containers are cleared, collected, and returned within free time.
- Escalate high-risk shipments to management before charges are incurred, with recommended corrective actions.
- Challenge and validate all carrier and shipping line D&D invoices to ensure accuracy and contractual compliance.
- Investigate root causes of D&D occurrences and implement preventive measures to eliminate repeat.
- Work with country logistics teams to optimize customs clearance, inland transportation, and container return processes.
- Track carrier-specific free time agreements and identify opportunities to negotiate improved terms during carrier reviews and procurement exercises.
- Develop dashboards highlighting D&D trends by country, carrier, supplier, freight forwarder, and root cause.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at minimizing avoidable storage-related costs across the network.
Prepare and circulate a Daily Container D&D Report covering:
- Containers currently within free time.
- Containers approaching free time expiry (e.g., next 3–5 days).
- Containers already in demurrage.
- Containers already in detention.
- Daily financial exposure by shipment and country.
- Root cause for each at-risk container.
- Recovery plan and expected resolution date.
- Weekly and month-to-date D&D spend.
- Aging analysis of outstanding containers.
- Key operational risks requiring management attention.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, International Business or related field.
- Professional certification such as CILT, APICS/ASCM, FIATA Diploma, or equivalent is an advantage.
- Project Management certification is desirable.
- 8–12 years of international freight forwarding and global logistics experience.
- Minimum 3 years leading logistics teams.
- Strong experience managing ocean freight operations.
- Experience with air freight and multimodal transportation.
- Experience across East and West African logistics corridors is highly desirable.
- Experience managing freight procurement and RFQs.
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