Freight Operator

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Javelin Global Commodities Full time

**About Javelin**

Javelin is a leading commodities trading and investment firm with offices in London, New York, Singapore, India, Melbourne, Switzerland and Poland. We operate across 50 countries on six continents, trading more than 20 different commodities including energy, metals, dry bulk, ocean freight and renewable technologies.

Our objective is to provide certainty and stability for our clients in an increasingly volatile sector, assisting them with financing, logistics and green solutions. Our success stems from a strategy of promoting deep, long-term relationships all along the commodity supply chain. Javelin is a unique place to grow your career. We take pride in our values, global reach, meritocratic culture and strong work ethic. Our success over the years has been built on our guiding principles of customer service, creativity, transparency, integrity, and responsibility.

**The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity for a Freight Operator to join Javelin’s Logistics team reporting into the Head of Freight Operations. This is a team of 18 employees spread across London, Singapore, US & India, with a tight-knit, collegiate atmosphere and uncapped potential to learn through the regular interaction with the Trading, Technology, Accounting and Documents/Settlements teams.

**Key Responsibilities Include**:

- Preparing voyage orders.
- Optimization of cargo intake & bunker requirements in coordination with chartering and trading desks.
- Agency appointments
- Minimize operational cost and control of voyage overall PNL results.
- Weather routing appointment and monitoring of ships performance at sea.
- Checking and approval of cargo documentation
- Issuing of freight invoice, hire payments and laytime calculation as required.
- Claims handling overview.
- Other ad-hoc responsibilities to develop over time.

**Requirements**:

- 2-3 years experience in a similar role
- Graduate ideally in a shipping/logistics degree
- Strong Excel skills. Familiar with shipping software ideally Veson
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to collaborate effectively with a global team
- A capable, enthusiastic individual who is a self-starter, able to work under pressure and comfortable with taking initiative
- Ability to multi-task, prioritise and manage time effectively
- Self-motivated and able to collaborate effectively with a global team.

**Benefits**
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Company pension scheme (10% company contribution)
- Private medical scheme with a range of additional wellbeing benefits
- Travel insurance
- Income protection
- Life assurance (5x salary)
- Bike2Work scheme including secure onsite storage and showers
- Season ticket loan
- Onsite top of the range gym
- Social environment with an onsite breakout area with a golf simulator, darts board and foosball table.



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