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Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
We are seeking a First-Mile Logistics Specialist to manage international transportation resources, freight capacity, and end-to-end shipment coordination. The ideal candidate should have experience in cross-border logistics and international ocean freight, with the ability to coordinate logistics resources and ensure shipments arrive at our U.S. warehouses as scheduled.
Responsibilities:
- Review shipment plans and confirm routes, sailing schedules, container types and quantities, ports of origin, and destination ports.
- Work with ocean carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics providers to obtain quotes, compare rates, negotiate pricing, and arrange bookings.
- Develop and maintain first-mile transportation resources to secure sufficient freight capacity during both regular and peak seasons.
- Coordinate container pickup, loading, trucking, customs declaration, port entry, customs clearance, container pickup, and warehouse delivery.
- Track vessel departures, arrivals, and overall shipment status, and promptly resolve delays, rollovers, customs inspections, demurrage, detention, and other transportation issues.
- Communicate with ocean carriers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, trucking companies, and U.S. warehouses.
- Review ocean freight, trucking, customs clearance, and other logistics charges while supporting transportation cost control.
- Maintain shipment and vendor records and regularly evaluate service providers based on pricing, transit times, and service quality.
Qualifications:
- Experience in first-mile logistics, international logistics, cross-border e-commerce logistics, ocean freight operations, or freight forwarding.
- Familiarity with ocean import shipments from China to the United States, with the ability to independently manage the process from booking through delivery to a U.S. warehouse.
- Familiarity with both full container load (FCL) and less-than-container load (LCL) shipments.
- Knowledge of shipping orders (SO), bills of lading, customs declaration and clearance, container pickup, and warehouse delivery procedures.
- Existing relationships with ocean carriers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, or trucking companies are preferred.
- Strong skills in rate sourcing, comparison, negotiation, and transportation cost control.
- Strong communication and coordination skills, with attention to detail and a strong sense of responsibility.
- Ability to communicate in both English and Chinese for daily business purposes is preferred.
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