Consolidation Lead

About Us

Opptra (www.opptra.com) is revolutionizing global expansion for consumer brands with a focus on ecommerce and digital capabilities. We're building a portfolio of category-specialized franchising businesses, powered by our centralized technology platform and global supply chain infrastructure.

We create market access through franchising businesses that serve as master franchisees or licensing partners for brands entering new markets. Unlike traditional distribution partners that prioritize brick-and-mortar channels, our businesses leverage advanced ecommerce expertise to accelerate market entry while balancing online and offline channels to match local consumer behavior.

With 70% of global consumer growth driven by Asia, we're currently focused on enabling access to these high-potential markets. Our model offers brands significant advantages:

• Reduced market entry costs
• Broader consumer reach
• Faster testing and learning capabilities than traditional retail
• Local expertise with global backing

Role Summary

The Consolidation Manager / Lead is responsible for end-to-end planning, execution, and optimization of international shipment consolidation across EMEA, APAC, South East Asia, and India. The role focuses on building cost-efficient, compliant, and scalable consolidation models to support reliable inbound supply flows.

This position requires strong expertise in setting up consolidation centres, managing global trade compliance, and ensuring documentation accuracy across countries with diverse regulatory requirements. The role works in a partner-led environment, collaborating with consolidation partners, first-mile logistics providers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, factories, overseas QA agencies, and internal supply chain, compliance, and finance teams.

Key Responsibilities

Cargo Consolidation Planning & Execution

• Plan and manage weekly/monthly consolidation across sourcing regions including China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and others
• Identify opportunities to combine shipments, maximize FCL/LCL utilization, and reduce freight and handling costs while meeting compliance requirements
• Coordinate with vendors to ensure cargo readiness aligned to pickup schedules and consolidation cut-offs
• Review packaging, labelling, and carton configurations to improve consolidation efficiency and compliance

Consolidation Partner & Forwarder Coordination

• Act as the primary point of contact for consolidation partners, first-mile providers, global forwarders, and origin agents
• Review and enforce SOPs, routing guides, SLAs, and cost targets
• Monitor shipment execution, vessel/flight schedules, origin handling, and transshipment risks
• Ensure timely and accurate pre-alerts, stuffing reports, VGMs, manifests, and milestone updates
• Onboard and scale consolidation partners across sourcing geographies

Global Trade Compliance & Regulatory Alignment

• Ensure compliance with country-specific trade regulations, including HS classification, labelling and fibre content, COO rules, restricted product lists, and import licenses (where applicable)
• Maintain working knowledge of regulations across GCC, ASEAN, EU, India, and North America
• Partner with internal product compliance and business teams to ensure regulatory readiness prior to shipment

Destination Documentation & Customs Compliance

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of shipping and customs documentation (CI, PL, COO, test reports, inspection certificates, HS codes, FTA certificates, packing declarations)
• Coordinate with destination customs brokers to prevent clearance delays and resolve queries
• Maintain documentation checklists, pre-audit controls, and recordkeeping to support BOE filing and audits Cost Optimisation & Vendor Performance Management
• Evaluate freight rates, consolidation charges, origin handling costs, and value-added services
• Drive cost savings through better consolidation, mode optimisation (air/sea), error reduction, and partner negotiations
• Develop and track partner scorecards covering cost, timeliness, documentation accuracy, and service reliability

Internal Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Merchandising, Buying, QA, Finance, EXIM, Operations, and Warehousing teams
• Provide visibility on consolidation status, in-transit shipments, risks, and exceptions
• Support PO execution planning, especially during peak seasons and urgent replenishments

Reporting, Analytics & KRAs

• Maintain dashboards tracking container utilization, cost performance, compliance accuracy, and consolidation cycle times
• Report exceptions impacting shipment timelines and inbound performance
• Ensure high compliance accuracy, complete documentation, and timely inwarding in coordination with SCM teams

Requirements

• 914 years of experience in international logistics, consolidation management, or EXIM operationspreferably in softlines/apparel, footwear, accessories.
• Hands-on experience managing cargo flow across China and Southeast Asian sourcing hubs.
• Strong understanding of:
• Trade compliance across multiple geographies in SEA and GCC
• Destination customs processes (India and SEA preferred, but GCC/EU/US exposure is an advantage)
• Global forwarding operations, CFS operations, FCL/LCL consolidations
• Import documentation and BOE requirements
• Experience working with large-scale consolidation partners and freight forwarders.
• Prior exposure to retail, apparel manufacturing, or lifestyle categories is highly desirable.

Technical Skills

• Global trade compliance & regulatory understanding
• HS classification familiarity
• Freight procurement & rate negotiation
• Strong knowledge of consolidation models (multi-factory, multi-country LCL, buyers consolidation)
• Documentation expertise (CI, PL, COO, test reports, packing standards, certificates)
• Customs compliance & pre-filing audit awareness
• Strong Excel/Power BI or logistics tools usage; TMS/WMS experience preferred