Trilingual Air Freight Forwarder (Portuguese & English)

Posted: Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Valid Thru: Friday, 11 April 2025
Index Requested on: 03/12/2025 13:38:21
Indexed on: 03/12/2025 13:38:21

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 3 years in Air Freight Forwarding experience.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills & business skills in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

· 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).

· Annual bonus for a third language support: $5.500.000.

· Food Allowance: $95.564.


Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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