Glencore is looking for a Shipping Clerk who will be responsible to support the commercial logistics and traffic functions with expediting shipping and the ocean export of raw materials/commodities from Africa to customer destinations by converting manual shipping administrative systems and associated interfaces with shipping lines to online processes.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
- Shipping Lines
- Freight Forwarders
- Category Leads
- End users from Sites
PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Establish online shipping administration as an in-house resource to move to seamless interfaces with shipping service providers having different administrative systems through a project coordination approach, and by setting up and applying online administrative platforms and procedures.
- Responsible to ensure efficiencies and effectiveness of shipping administration and related procedures to realize cost-benefits and savings by converting manual systems/procedures to online shipping procedures and services in support of logistics objectives.
- Respond to sales export bookings and requirements by liaising with logistics management, traffic and shipping lines regarding freight bookings ex-Africa, and ensuring correct warehouse is advised of said bookings and special instructions to meet vessel stacks.
- Prepare bill of lading by receiving, accessing and collating relevant data and information from sources, and forward to shipping line.
- Ensure correct freight rates are applied per rate agreement structures, and that shipping lines have appropriate equipment positioned to collect for packing.
- Comply with Compliance and Sanctions guidelines regarding the Vessel Screening Procedure and the required pre-approvals to commercially engage with service providers and vessels.
- Ensure bank releases are in order by liaising with financial functions, that containers are packed with correct allocation, and are transported and stacked to meet vessel stacks to clear the path for material to be exported.
- Fulfil contractual obligations by obtaining vessel certificates, warehouse receipts, arrival notifications, and any other salient documentation.
- Collect original documentation, bills of lading having ensured that documentation and payment have been surrendered to the shipping line.
- Monitor movement, departure and arrival at port of vessels by updating information tracking systems and through close liaison with shipping line, and updates logistics management and traffic accordingly.
- Provide shipping administrative support as required, relating to shipping documentation, storage, payment and ocean freight activities and services.
- Ensure prompt service from service providers by forging and maintaining close relationships, by ensuring invoices are promptly paid and by resolving problems issues swiftly and effectively.
- Liaise closely with logistics management and traffic to register any problems, and convey decisions to stakeholders as appropriate.
- Establish and manage stakeholder relationships with internal stakeholders by being the first point of contact for end user shipping and related queries and needs relating to the African esports of raw materials / commodities to customer destinations.
- Transfer and implement systematically and purposefully online shipping processes and administration to enhance the shipping administrative organizational environment through the application of online shipping knowledge and experience to replace manual shipping administrative procedures.
- Ensure ongoing self-development to maintain competency levels within an ever-changing online shipping administrative environment by keeping abreast of systems developments and associated skills and requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Relevant Diploma/Qualification required.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
- 3-5 Years in shipping and freight forwarding environments, with exposure to the full range of online shipping administrative functions.
Competencies:
- Proficient in online shipping administrative procedures
- MS Office / Computer literate
- Communication skills (verbal, written)
- Attention to detail
- Customer oriented
- Results-driven and self-motivated
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Ability to work under pressure
- Team player
How to apply:
Please apply on the Careers Portal: Applications Close:
https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities 12 March 2025
This vacancy will be filled in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Glencore. By applying for this position, you consent to Glencore collecting, storing, using, destroying, and processing in any other manner personal information for purposes of attending to this advertisement, and/ or all matters relating thereto, including the disclosure to third parties of such personal information for purposes of confirming such personal information. In the event you do not hear from the Company within 21 days after the closing date of applications, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful. The CVs of unsuccessful candidates will not be returned.
Who We Are
Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.
With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.
Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.
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