Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Inc

Airfreight Supervisor - Healthcare

Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered
  • Minimum 5 years in airfreight export role required
  • 2 years of supervisory experience preferred
  • Industry-related course completion is a plus
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and shipping documentation

Responsibilities

  • Supervise the airfreight product team and manage compliance
  • Liaise with clients, vendors, and regulatory agencies
  • Analyze service failures and escalate issues for resolution
  • Monitor shipment profitability and adjust services as needed
  • Conduct employee performance reviews and set development goals
  • Train and certify team members on compliance and procedures
  • Manage staffing levels based on business metrics and performance

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and welfare programs
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Tuition assistance opportunities
  • Incentive compensation for eligible positions
Full Job Description
This position has a base compensation range of $85,000.00 to $105.000.00. In addition to this base compensation, youll benefit from our competitive health and welfare programs, a 401(k)-retirement savings plan, opportunities for tuition assistance, and incentive compensation for eligible positions. Salary determination considers your skills, experience, job location, internal pay equity and job architecture. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics regularly reviews our pay ranges against industry standards to ensure fairness.

The Airfreight Supervisor - Healthcare will supervise the product team for his/her assigned area of responsibility. He / She will be responsible for that teams product compliance, quality outcomes to internal and external stakeholders, volume and revenue growth, yield, operating efficiency, with a specific focus on productivity and quality.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serves as a liaison between the client, vendors and government agencies
• Actively pursues feedback from team members and customers to identify opportunities to increase service levels, productivity, and profitability
• Acts as senior product subject matter expert
• Analyzes service failures across multiple departments and actions or escalates findings to ensure their timely resolution and preventative measures are being taken (i.e. billing discrepancies, claims, delaysetc)
• Assigns tasks as required to internal departments based on the nature of the request
• Confirms shipment-level profitability and escalates any loss-making or low margin files
• Controls commercial documentation required for export or import declaration and other regulatory agencies or requirements (AES, DPS, Hazmat, AMS)
• Monitors file profitability and escalates pro-actively to product and sales management to ensure that quoted services and pricing are adjusted to achieve profitability
• Monitors, assigns, and ensures the resolution of any accounts payable issues within area of responsibility
• Provides management with objective feedback regarding vendor performance levels, escalates issues in a timely manner to ensure best level of service
• Responsible for the export compliance including Denied Party Screening and AES filing
• Responsible for the resolution of external billing disputes and collections ensuring their timely resolution
• Measures, analyzes, and improves external or internal KPIs for area of responsibility
• Validates product staff understand and comply with customer and company standard operating procedures
• Manages staffing levels based on business development, peak volume periods, department performance metrics, and employee vacations
• Assists management by proactively providing input on talent acquisition, re-assignment, demotion, and promotion
• Conducts regular employee performance review meetings and sets performance goals to drive employee development
• Ensures all assigned employees are trained, certified, and re-certified periodically
• Performs other duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position supervises employees and may supervise temporary employees from time to time based on projects.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
• Preferred to have either an Associates Degree (A.A.) from a two-year college or Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience will be considered in lieu of educational requirement
• High School Diploma or GED required
• Minimum five years of experience in the airfreight export role required
• Two years of prior experience in a supervisory role preferred
• Completion of any industry related course is an asset

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
• Organizational skills
• Time management and prioritization
• Customer-focused
• Adaptable / flexible to high-pressured environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Email, and Internet
• Proficient in world geography, shipping documentation, and Incoterms preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English in order to present information to customers, management, and subordinates in a professional setting
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as freight rates, discounts, and other percentages
• Analytical skills / problem-solving ability
• Leadership skills  able to train, coach, and develop subordinates

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:
• Frequently required to stand, and walk
• Regularly required to sit for extended periods
• Regularly uses arms to reach, hands and fingers for computer and phone use
• Speaking clearly and listening for heavy phone contact
• Requires close-up and computer screen distance vision ability

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics are similar of those of an office setting with various office equipment.

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