Senior Shipping Officer at Benmaris Limited

Job Title: Senior Shipping Officer

About the Role

• Attend to all Import shipping documentation (Air & Sea) activities.
• Global import logistics cargo planning and liaison {Air & Sea} with foreign suppliers/manufacturers/forwarders at origin to delivery in Company approved facilities in Nigeria.
• Ensure proper guidance in International Shipping matters to all parties, and ensure Forwarding and Shipping arrangements, in line with best practice and optimum efficiency.
• Advise and ensure strict compliance on Shipping documentation (Air & Sea) requirements and procedures in line with international and Nigerian Standard shipping policies.
• Ensure timely pre-alert documentations are received from source.
• Ensure proper regularization, amendment/correction are effected on pre-alert documents by forwarders/foreign suppliers before approval is given and cargo is shipped from source.
• Properly collate all necessary and complete set of received and approved import shipping (Air and Sea) documents and forward application to Government approved Inspection agencies for RAR approval/issuance.
• Liaison with various Government agencies for import/export activities where required.
• Participate in developing shipping strategy in co-operation with other members of the transit team taking into account the eventual synergy plans on dedicated projects.
• Propose improvement and generation of the shipping section procedures and policies to the Manager.
• Ensure maintenance of Database for tracking all shipments
• Monitor shipping trends on the International scene
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Prepare weekly /.monthly reports as appropriate.

Requirements

• A graduate of any Social Science discipline with at least 8 years’ experience in international trade / shipping in similar activities
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Good computing software skills.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is on 13th December, 2024. Therefore, qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Official Job Website: https://www.benmaris.com/