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GM - Freight Forwarding

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Experience
10–15 years
Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Onsite
Salary
₹25 L–35 L / year
Deadline
Apply by 1 Nov 2026
Posted
2025-06-12

Required skills

SkillExperienceLevel
Freight6+ yearsAdvanced
Logistics6+ yearsNot specified

About the role

Job Responsibilities :

  • Sharing of client leads with sales team to focus on bringing new customers on board.
  • Proper checking and Approval of all quotation and Jobs for all verticals i.e. Ocean, Air, Project.
  • To accompany with sales team when necessary to bring new customer on board and recovery of payment, if it is delayed beyond a certain limit or to solve any problem arise with customer.
  • Conducting weekly sales meeting to discuss the outstanding with current customers and the targeted customers with their feedback and enquiries generation.
  • All types of credit, commission approvals from management.
  • Bringing new customers on board, sending them quotation, building relations with customers.
  • Guiding operation team wherever required expertise in handling and custom clearance activities of any typical commodity.
  • Team building activities within the team members to co-operate with each other wherever necessary.
  • Achieve monthly / annual revenue budge
  • Filling of any fresh sales staff wherever necessary.

KRA’s :

  • Manage the Freight Forwarding business.
  • Source new business as well as expand scope of work from existing clients
  • Achieve monthly / annual revenue budget
  • Ensure timely collections from clients within credit period
  • Innovative in providing solution as well as collaborate with different verticals for business integration which can be beneficial to the organization
  • Monitoring sales team to Achieve their budget
  • People Management
  • Quality and System compliance.

Desired Attributes:

  • Should have minimum 10 years’ experience in Freight Forwarding services.
  • Must have existing shipper base which can be diverted once onboard.
  • Should be self-motivated & a go getter.
  • Knowledge & client base for will be added advantage.
  • Competency in offering total logistics solution to customers.
  • Prepare market reports & appraise management with market intelligence / reports as & when required.