Flexport
Manager, Ocean Freight
Denver, Colorado, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role is crucial for scaling volume, increasing yield, and driving profitability through expert market knowledge and strategic interfacing with customers.
- The position requires designing tailored products, managing tenders and RFQs, and collaborating with procurement and pricing teams to identify growth opportunities.
- Strategic vision and ground floor execution;
Responsibilities
- Manage a sizeable Ocean P&L for your district through scaling volume and increasing yield
- Be the market expert and support the commercial organization with market-specific intelligence, trade idiosyncrasies, and directly interfacing with customer
- Interface with procurement and pricing teams to drive profitable business, identify growth opportunities, and capture market-specific knowledge
- Identify and drive improvement in go-to-market, operational, and financial processes
- Build and own P&L review and actively participate in book of business growth rhythms
- Use data to drive decisions
- Help drive near and long term district forecasting
- Develop your team to create the future of Flexport district management
- Work across Procurement, Pricing, Planning, and District Management teams to deliver globally optimized results to the Ocean P&L
- Help design products and generate customized go-to-market strategies for customers
Requirements
- 5+ years of prior Ocean Freight experience at a top freight forwarder or carrier or 5+ years of supply chain experience and a BA/BS Degree;
- Ability to travel regionally;
Skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills;
Compensation
- The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base salary for the position in the posting's respective region.
Benefits
- Drive all financial health levers for your district including quoting, invoicing, and dispute escalation
- By improving operational and financial processes and leveraging data for decision-making, the Manager will ensure financial health and drive the growth of the book of business.
Company info
- About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward.
- That's why it's our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it.
- To support our continued global expansion and enhance our ocean freight operations, we are seeking a Manager of Regional Ocean Management to oversee a multi-million dollar Ocean P&L for their district.
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