Shipping Officer at 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Shipping Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

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 atorigin 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.
• Carry out any other duties that may be assigned by the Hierarchy

Requirements

• A graduate of any Social Science discipline with at least 4 years’ experience in international trade / shipping in similar activities
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Good computing software skills.

Application Closing Date
13th December, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online