Cape Town Region: Logistics Controller

Minimum Requirements: Logistics, International Trade or Supply Chain degree More than 3 years experience dealing with international imports, exports or the fruit industry Duties and Responsibilities: Manage and control stock levels through daily stock counts and reconciliation between the Agile system and cold store stock reports. Identify and tag rejected pallets, notify marketers accordingly, and follow up on aged stock or items requiring re-inspection. Investigate and resolve stock discrepancies such as incorrect carton quantities or pack types, liaising with the cold store where deviations have not been formally reported. Ensure rejected pallets are confirmed with growers and removed from available stock. Organise re-inspections with the forwarding agent when requested by the marketer or logistics manager. Coordinate loading activities between freight forwarders, packhouses, and cold storage facilities to ensure timely dispatch. Issue loading and labelling instructions received from marketers, confirming compliance with country-specific weight limits and export maturity requirements. Ensure labelling details are complete and accurate, and follow up with marketers where instructions are missing for destinations requiring labels. Authorise and manage pallet breakdowns and rebuilds for breakbulk and container shipments, ensuring all movements are accurately reflected in the system at cold store level. Liaise with transport providers to track transit pallets and confirm on-time arrival of fruit for scheduled loadings. Verify Phytclean compliance for shipments destined for the EU. Distribute label templates to growers upon request from marketers. Prepare packing lists and general addendums from purchase order documentation, validating all information before processing dispatch and loading paperwork. Amend and correct documentation deviations, such as packing list weight changes, as requested by forwarders, clients, or marketers. Request outstanding purchase order files, intake records, outbound consignment notes, and supporting documentation from growers where required, ensuring these are supplied to the cold store and/or forwarding agents. Instruct the cold store to perform manual intake procedures when PO documentation is not received within the required timeframe. Create Excel-based shipment summaries and PO documentation and distribute these to designated producers. Manage client-related queries, including free-day requests, container damage claims, and cash-on-delivery (COD) requests once approved by the relevant marketer. Request, confirm, and maintain client label templates, filing them correctly and ensuring monthly updates are completed. Obtain import permits from clients as required for shipments. Circulate and receive client information sheets, verifying accuracy of consignee and party details, and communicate any updates to relevant stakeholders. PLEASE NOTE : Thank you for your interest in this position, we will review and be in touch if you are suitable. Due to the amount of applications we receive for each position, we are unable to respond to each one individually. Please accept your application as unsuccessful if you had no feedback within 7 days of applying . Your CV will remain on our database and we will be in touch for other suitable positions. In the meantime, please download our