Specialist Air Freight (AFR)

Posted: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Valid Thru: Saturday, 19 April 2025
Index Requested on: 03/21/2025 01:32:44
Indexed on: 03/21/2025 01:32:44

Location: Bogotá, DC, , CO

Industry: Transportation and Logistics
Occupational Category: 15-0000.00 - Computer and Mathematics
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

CO1020, a division of DHL Global Forwarding (Colombia) S.A.S., is hiring!

Description:

Job Tittle: Specialist AFR


Location: GSC BOG


Administer Air Freight (AFR) Operations and Customer Service processes to drive movement of customer goods and information while achieving seamless end-to-end performance and profitability and maintaining quality and regulatory compliance as part of a customer centric team that meets and exceeds customer and corporate objectives, guidelines, and policies.


Key Responsibilities:


  • Take ownership of transport orders, ensuring timely pickup, and optimizing booking processes
  • Prepare, control, and distribute necessary export documents, ensuring compliance to all origin export and destination import regulations.
  • Collaborate with counterparts to validate and finalize documents.
  • Assign tasks to supporting functions and monitor performance.
  • Meet and exceed customer expectations as well as internal Key Performance Indicators,
  • As customer first point of contact, provide exceptional customer service, promptly providing accurate information related to shipment status, documentation requirements, incident resolution and pricing/quotes.
  • Record, track, resolve, analyze and take necessary corrective action regarding all exceptions/operational irregularities - proactively updating the customer.
  • Enhance service experience in DHL by exercising professionalism and empathy when dealing with each individual customer's varying needs and demands.
  • Effectively communicates with DHL Network colleagues with focus on stressing a sense of urgency on behalf of the customer.
  • Obtain and maintain all company systems and commodity related certifications.
  • Ensure that correct costs and revenues are captured against customer’s profile - taking full ownership of financial performance, promptly resolving any related issues. simple and complex issues.
  • Accept customer requests for quotations and send them to the Quotations team for processing. Passes on leads to Sales.
  • Available to support on weekends to attend urgencies or critical situation that could affect movement of the shipments.


Skills / Requirements:

  • Strong understanding of Air Export regulations, documentation, and incoterms.
  • Minimum of 1 years in Air Freight Forwarding experience.
  • Enthusiasm for building deep and lasting connections with our customers.
  • Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, always demonstrating a "can do" attitude.
  • Ability to resolve issues related to product movement and proactively communicating with the customer.
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills (oral and written) in English are essential.
  • Prior customer service experience is preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel
  • Experience using Cargo Wise Transportation Management System is preferred.

Relevant information:

  • Salary: $4.000.000.
  • Type of Contract: Indefinite - Directly with DHL Colombia.
  • Performance bonus from 7% to 13% of salary ($223.860min- $415.740max).
  • Food Allowance: $95.564.



Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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