AFR Specialist - Military veterans preferred

2025-04-11
DHL (https://group.dhl.com/en.html)
Other

/yr

  full-time   employee


Bogotá
Colombia

Job Tittle: Specialist AFR

Location: GSC BOG

Administer Air Freight (AFR) Operations and Customer Service processes to drive movement of customer goods and information while achieving seamless end-to-end performance and profitability and maintaining quality and regulatory compliance as part of a customer centric team that meets and exceeds customer and corporate objectives, guidelines, and policies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of transport orders, ensuring timely pickup, and optimizing booking processes
  • Prepare, control, and distribute necessary export documents, ensuring compliance to all origin export and destination import regulations.
  • Collaborate with counterparts to validate and finalize documents.
  • Assign tasks to supporting functions and monitor performance.
  • Meet and exceed customer expectations as well as internal Key Performance Indicators,
  • As customer first point of contact, provide exceptional customer service, promptly providing accurate information related to shipment status, documentation requirements, incident resolution and pricing/quotes.
  • Record, track, resolve, analyze and take necessary corrective action regarding all exceptions/operational irregularities - proactively updating the customer.
  • Enhance service experience in DHL by exercising professionalism and empathy when dealing with each individual customer's varying needs and demands.
  • Effectively communicates with DHL Network colleagues with focus on stressing a sense of urgency on behalf of the customer.
  • Obtain and maintain all company systems and commodity related certifications.
  • Ensure that correct costs and revenues are captured against customer’s profile - taking full ownership of financial performance, promptly resolving any related issues. simple and complex issues.
  • Accept customer requests for quotations and send them to the Quotations team for processing. Passes on leads to Sales.
  • Available to support on weekends to attend urgencies or critical situation that could affect movement of the shipments.    

Skills / Requirements:

  • Strong understanding of Air Export regulations, documentation, and incoterms.
  • Minimum of 1 years in Air Freight Forwarding experience.
  • Enthusiasm for building deep and lasting connections with our customers.
  • Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, always demonstrating a "can do" attitude.
  • Ability to resolve issues related to product movement and proactively communicating with the customer.
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills (oral and written) in English are essential. 
  • Prior customer service experience is preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel
  • Experience using Cargo Wise Transportation Management System is preferred.

Relevant information:

Salary: $4.000.000

Type of Contract: Indefinite - Directly with DHL Colombia.

Performance bonus from 7% to 13% of salary ($223.860min- $415.740max).

Food Allowance: $95.564.