Kim Marcinowski
Wood Dale,IL
Summary
Superior Import & Export Manager. Directs and manages transportation activities to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. Supervises logistics and establishes and maintains working relationships with Customers and carriers to facilitate and streamline processes. Demonstrated knowledge of freight contracts with strong cross-functional leadership skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Import Department Manager
Green Worldwide
Itasca, IL
11.2021 - Current
- Responded to customs, customer and internal requests and notices about classification, duty rates and documentation requirements to support import regulations.
- Established, supervised and continuously improved import process flows in conformance with rules, procedures and company policy.
- Created and transmitted accurate documentation to governmental agencies for import activities.
- Coordinated company product shipments and international transactions to eliminate freight delays.
Key Accounts Executive
Rohlig USA
Elk Grove Village, USA
12.2020 - 11.2021
- Secured high-value accounts through consultative selling, effective customer solutions and promoting compelling business opportunities.
- Leveraged strategic planning to penetrate key accounts.
- Boosted customer satisfaction by providing teams with training and skills to optimize service delivery in alignment with individual needs.
- Improved account management by predicting potential competitive threats and outlining proactive solutions.
- Delivered business strategy and developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency
Import Operations Supervisor / Mergers
DSV Air & Sea, Acquisit
Itasca, IL
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Managed logistics operations to meet customer expectations and financial standards and policies
- Evaluated quality problems and performance to identify and resolve issues
- Liaised with Top Management to organize and perform quality standard training for new and existing staff
- Conducted training and change management processes to improve Education operations
- Collaborated with all divisional department heads on operational support tasks to model importance of group goals
- Mt
- Prospect, IL
- Conducted training and change management processes to improve Engineering operations
- Analyzed current business plan, identified inefficiencies in existing Northwestern College processes, and tracked performance following implementation of Chicago, IL
- Improvements
- Business Administration
- Created scheduling reports in Cargowise system to efficiently and effectively move product and adhere to shipping commitments
- Operated with high integrity, built trust, and earned sustained credibility with internal and external client
Operation Manager
Hankyu Hanshin Express
Addison, IL
05.2011 - 02.2019
- Increased profits by assessing the effectiveness of implementing vendor service contracts and internal house trucking projects
- Cultivated and strengthened lasting client relationships
- Managed multiple team members across six departments, resulting in an increase in annual revenue and performance
- Recruited and trained a vast number internal candidates for potential management role opportunities
- Maintained project quality with a hands-on management style
- Generated and developed leads to acquire new clients
- Managed, trained and motivated back and front-of-house employees to always be improving knowledge and abilities in the field
- Reduced financial inconsistencies while assessing and verifying billing invoices and expense reports
- Worked with support teams to resolve issues with product, service or accounting areas
- Implemented operational strategies and effectively built customer and employee loyalty through Standard Operational Procedures and
- Regulations training
- Implemented innovative programs to increase employee loyalty and reduce turnover
- Set project timelines and kept teams on task to complete milestones according to schedule
- Delivered customized and effective solutions to clients that met unique demands
- Created effective organizational systems for reports, agendas, contracts and records inclusive of developing effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives
- Supported regulatory compliance by overseeing all audits to ensure adherence to protocol
- (ISO, TSA, CTPAT & DOT included)
- Monitored and evaluated teams, identifying and targeting opportunities for improvement
- Provided staff members with the support and training to achieve top client satisfaction and Employees loyalty through Standard Operational
- Procedures and Regulations training
- Implemented innovative programs to increase employee loyalty and reduce turnover
- Set project timelines and kept teams on task to complete milestones according to schedule
- Delivered customized and effective solutions to clients that met unique demands
- Created effective organizational systems for reports, agendas, contracts and records inclusive of developing effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives
- Supported regulatory compliance by overseeing all audits to ensure adherence to protocol
- (ISO, TSA, CTPAT & DOT included)
- Monitored and evaluated teams, identifying and targeting opportunities for improvement
- Provided staff members with the support and training to achieve top client satisfaction.
Operations Executive
Molitor Trucking
Lake In The Hills, IL
04.2009 - 05.2012
- Managed home based Trucking Company fiscal operating, budget and expenses
- Efficiently and effectively identified and solved all problems that impacted the direction of the business
- Monitored equipment
- Inventory
- Tracked and analyzed profitability.
Schneider - OPERATIONS MANAGER
Wood Dale, IL
05.2008 - 05.2009
- Set up of Chicago Office Operations, in both Import and Export
- Responsible for daily operations, TSA, FMC and CTPAT compliance.
OPERATIONS MANAGER
IJS Gobal
Des Plaines, IL
12.2006 - 05.2008
- Set up of Chicago Office Operations in both Import and Export
- Responsible for daily operations, TSA, FMC and CTPAT compliance and profitability of the branch.
OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
Hitachi Transport System America, Ltd
Itasca, IL
02.1997 - 08.2006
- Supervised both Export and Import Department and the fifteen staff members within them
- Elaborate knowledge of Operational Supervising procedures, including AES system, TSA Compliance, FMC tariff filings, Airline and Steamship vendor contract negotiations, Freight Bill Auditing, and on-cost, sales analysis.
Education
No Degree - Engineering
ITT Tech
Mt. Prospect, IL.Skills
- Inbound cargo logistics
- Foreign Trade Zone management
- US Customs and Immigration regulations
- International shipping
- Intermodal freight
- Ocean freight
- Supply Chain Management
- Freight consolidation
- Internal Audits
- Freight forwarding
- Import management
- Clearance monitoring
- Document preparation
- Reporting abilities
- Customer support
- Documentation skills
- Decision Making
Timeline
Import Department Manager
Green Worldwide
11.2021 - Current
Key Accounts Executive
Rohlig USA
12.2020 - 11.2021
Import Operations Supervisor / Mergers
DSV Air & Sea, Acquisit
04.2019 - 12.2020
Operation Manager
Hankyu Hanshin Express
05.2011 - 02.2019
Operations Executive
Molitor Trucking
04.2009 - 05.2012
Schneider - OPERATIONS MANAGER
05.2008 - 05.2009
OPERATIONS MANAGER
IJS Gobal
12.2006 - 05.2008
OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
Hitachi Transport System America, Ltd
02.1997 - 08.2006
No Degree - Engineering
ITT Tech