Senior Shipping Officer

  • Full Time
  • Lagos
  • Applications have closed.

Benmaris Limited

Benmaris Limited started as a professional manpower providers, financial consultants and general works contractor in 2007. It is a wholly owned Nigerian Company. Over the years, it has undertaken many challenging projects and accumulated skills, know-how and experiences in Facilities Management, Procurement and Supply Services, Design and Build Solutions, Project Management Services, Building Construction and related engineering works.

About the Role

  • Attend to all Import shipping documentation (Air & Sea) activities.
  • Global import logistics cargo planning and liaison {Air & Sea} with foreign suppliers/manufacturers/forwarders at origin to delivery in Company approved facilities in Nigeria.
  • Ensure proper guidance in International Shipping matters to all parties, and ensure Forwarding and Shipping arrangements, in line with best practice and optimum efficiency.
  • Advise and ensure strict compliance on Shipping documentation (Air & Sea) requirements and procedures in line with international and Nigerian Standard shipping policies.
  • Ensure timely pre-alert documentations are received from source.
  • Ensure proper regularization, amendment/correction are effected on pre-alert documents by forwarders/foreign suppliers before approval is given and cargo is shipped from source.
  • Properly collate all necessary and complete set of received and approved import shipping (Air and Sea) documents and forward application to Government approved Inspection agencies for RAR approval/issuance.
  • Liaison with various Government agencies for import/export activities where required.
  • Participate in developing shipping strategy in co-operation with other members of the transit team taking into account the eventual synergy plans on dedicated projects.
  • Propose improvement and generation of the shipping section procedures and policies to the Manager.
  • Ensure maintenance of Database for tracking all shipments
  • Monitor shipping trends on the International scene
  • Data analysis and reporting.
  • Prepare weekly /.monthly reports as appropriate.

Requirements

  • A graduate of any Social Science discipline with at least 8 years’ experience in international trade / shipping in similar activities
  • Good inter-personal skills.
  • Good computing software skills.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should click on the link below to apply online.