Global Freight Manager - Greater London - Augustinus Bader

    Augustinus Bader
    Augustinus Bader Greater London

    3 days ago

    Description

    The Global Freight Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all international freight activities across the business, ensuring the efficient, compliant, and cost-effective movement of components, packaging, finished goods, and promotional materials worldwide.

    This role is ideal for a highly organised and detail-driven logistics professional with strong international freight expertise, capable of operating in a fast-paced, growing global environment and partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Manage end-to-end global freight operations across air, ocean, and road transport.
    • Coordinate shipments of components, packaging, finished goods, and marketing materials to manufacturing sites, filling partners, and global distribution centres.
    • Ensure timely booking, pickup, transit, customs clearance, and final delivery of all shipments.
    • Approve freight bookings, routes, transport modes, and rates in line with service, cost, and business requirements.
    • Act as the primary point of contact for nominated freight forwarders, carriers, and logistics partners.
    • Monitor and manage forwarder performance against agreed KPIs, including cost, transit time, reliability, and service levels.
    • Proactively manage and resolve shipment exceptions, delays, potential damages, including claims handling with carriers and insurers.

    Customs, Trade & Regulatory Compliance

    • Ensure full compliance with international trade regulations, customs requirements, and cosmetic industry standards across all markets.
    • Preparation, review, and submission of shipping documentation (commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, etc.).
    • Coordinate with customs brokers on import/export formalities, duties, taxes, and special regulatory programs (e.g., FDA notifications, aluminium/steel declarations).
    • Maintain accurate and auditable digital records of customs and trade documentation.

    Cost Control, Analysis & Reporting

    • Manage global freight spend in line with approved budgets and commercial targets.
    • Review and approve freight, duty, VAT, and disbursement invoices for accuracy.
    • Produce regular reporting on freight costs, duty exposure, transit performance, and service levels, providing insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    • Partner closely with Supply Planning, NPD, and Commercial teams to support product launches and ongoing supply.
    • Provide logistics expertise and input into new product development, packaging changes, and market expansions.
    • Support urgent and time-critical shipments, including escalation management where required.
    • Identify and implement opportunities to improve freight efficiency, routing, lead times, and resilience.
    • Drive best practices to reduce cost, risk, and environmental impact across global freight operations.
    • Support logistics process optimisation and system enhancements in line with business growth.
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