Ocean Freight Procurement Manager Latin America, Hillebrand Gori

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Job Title: Ocean Freight Procurement Manager Latin America
Reporting to: Group Ocean Freight
Office / Department: Group Procurement
Location: Chile or another Latin America country

• Reporting to Group Ocean Freight Procurement, supports the Latin America organization in securing their ocean transport needs. Work with internal departments, sales, operations, across multiple business lines to anticipate requirements and implement procurement action accordingly.
• Analyze tradelanes supply & demand, services and preferred options per trade, analyze freight indexes and anticipate market trends.
• Manage and build relationship with key decision makers with the ocean carriers to run export freight negotiations and strategies
• In coordination with the Group Trade Managers involved, support with carrier negotiations for inbound freight, free times, per diem, carrier haulages negotiations…
• Run the actual freight procurement exercise, define optimum process, from actual tenders to spot buying, from mid to long term contracts with commitments, to spot and opportunistic terms.
• Proper internal communication and coordination of carrier policy adopted, of contracts negotiated, follow up on volume performances.
• Ensure regional carrier budget / volumes are delivered by the business, in accordance with Group global carrier policy / commitments.
• Provide pricing guidance to both locally and centrally managed accounts / tenders, in coordination with the actual account owner.
• Develop annual volume and spend analysis to measure freight spend, and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Participation to Global Sales / Corporate Account tender