Manager of Project Cargo Division

Job Type : Full-Time (No Travel Required)

Company : Clutch Global Logistics, Inc.

Basic Overview of Role and Responsibilities :

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for the below function.

• Project Management : Oversee the planning, execution, and completion of project cargo shipments, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Quoting : Oversee the quoting and planning of potential project cargo shipments, ensuring they are completed on time and with an accurate budget.
• Team Leadership : Lead and manage the project cargo team on each shipment, providing guidance, training, and mentorship to ensure efficient operations.
• Client Relations : Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and prospects, understanding their specific needs and ensuring their requirements are met.
• Agent Relations : Build and maintain strong relationships with agents to support our needs and to create business opportunities to support their needs.
• Risk Management : Assess risks associated with project cargo shipments and implement mitigation strategies to ensure the safety and security of cargo.
• Regulatory Compliance : Ensure all project cargo shipments comply with local, national, and international regulations and standards.
• Budgeting : Develop and manage budgets for project cargo operations, ensuring cost-effectiveness and profitability.
• Vendor Relations : Negotiate and collaborate with vendors, carriers, and other partners to ensure smooth and efficient project cargo operations.
• Reporting : Provide regular updates and reports on project cargo operations to senior management, highlighting any challenges and proposing solutions.
• Continuous Improvement : Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices in project cargo operations.
• Problem Solving : Address and resolve any issues or challenges that arise during the transportation of project cargo, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Sales Support : Support the sales team in its pursuit of new clients and current client projects.

General Responsibilities

• Be actively engaged with the larger industry.
• Generate and implement ideas to improve the marketability of the Project Cargo division.
• Attend prospect or client meetings as required.
• Collaborate directly with sales team to help secure, retain, and grow accounts.
• Stay abreast of industry developments that will be applicable to your division.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.

Requirements

General Traits Needed for Success :

The ideal candidate will possess and display the below attributes.

Positive Attitude - Maintains a good outlook toward work, coworkers, and customers; Displays excellent customer service and leaves customers smiling;

Strives to affect others positively.

• Work Standards - Consistently establishes work processes to achieve a high level of productivity and superior results;
• Overcomes obstacles to finish the assignment; Accepts responsibility for all outcomes of one's work; Recognizes shortcomings and works to overcome and improve;

Learns from failures but is not deterred by them.

• Managing Work - Balances multiple and often conflicting priorities; effectively manages time; Ability to multitask.
• Initiating Action - Acts proactively to solve problems even if they may not be directly their own; Develops new ideas and solutions without prompting;

does not wait for direction; Identifies solutions proactively; Exceed job requirements.

Decision Making - Able to operate in an autonomous environment; works well under pressure; Balances multiple and often conflicting priorities;

Comfortable with asking for help; Uses logic to think through decisions; Consistently attempts solving problems / making decisions prior to seeking help.

Collaboration - Works effectively in a team; Facilitates mutually beneficial relationships; Strives to achieve team goals;

Able to put personal differences aside for the benefit of the team; Proactively offers to help.

• Building Trust - Dedicated to honesty; Hold to commitments; Earns the trust of others both internally and externally. Gives respect and compassion.
• Adaptability - Views changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; Has a positive attitude and overcomes challenges;

Flexible and able to quickly and effectively modify to cope with work environment changes; Alters ineffective behaviors accordingly.

Information Technology Fluency - Comfortable with most basic productivity hardware and software; Basic ability to manipulate, store, delete, copy, and move digital files;

Intermediate knowledge of Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Experience of an Ideal Candidate :

In addition to the above, all candidates must meet the below minimum requirements :

At least 3 years of relevant direct professional experience with moving Project Cargo

It is preferred, but not required, that candidates have the following :

• At least 5 years of relevant direct professional experience with moving Project Cargo
• Related professional experience working with CargoWise system

Compensation :

You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below.

• Salary based upon experience
• Potential for Performance Bonus
• Potential for Commission
• Annual Corporate Sponsored 401k Contributions
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k Savings Plan (Traditional & Roth Plans)
• Health Insurance - employee and dependents PPO & HMO offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield (Majority Funded by Employer)
• Dental Insurance - employee and dependents (Fully Funded by Employer)
• Vision Insurance - employee and dependents (Fully Funded by Employer)
• Short-term Disability Insurance (Fully Funded by Employer)
• Long-term Disability Insurance (Fully Funded by Employer)
• Group Life Insurance (Fully Funded by Employer)

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