Flexport · 1 month ago
Senior Manager, Ocean Freight
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expFlexport is a company dedicated to making global commerce easier and more accessible. As a Senior Manager, Ocean Freight, you will play a crucial role in managing and growing the Ocean Freight business while ensuring exceptional service for clients and driving profitable business practices.
Freight ServiceLogisticsShippingSoftwareSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Manage a sizeable Ocean P&L for your district through scaling volume and increasing yield for the the Southeast and Mid-market
Be the market expert and support the commercial organization with market-specific intelligence, trade idiosyncrasies, and directly interfacing with customer
Help design products and generate customized go-to-market strategies for customers, from business development to pricing
Own tenders and RFQs for your district to secure regional and global customers, including tender management, implementation, and ongoing NAC management
Interface with procurement 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
Contribute to product development tools that impact the ocean business, from DCRS to NAC allocation tool, CPO, etc
Join on a regular basis client calls and webinars
Lead regular cross team meetings in your region for Ocean FCL, and quickly tackle demand questions and escalations as arise in Slack
Build and maintain relationships with a portfolio of partner carriers (Account Executives, Senior Leadership in country/global)
Drive all financial health levers for your district including quoting, invoicing, and dispute escalation
Manage a team of budding market experts who will drive customer strategies, monitor financial health indicators, and drive book of business growth initiatives
Work across Procurement, Pricing, Planning, and District Management teams to deliver globally optimized results to the Ocean P&L
Qualification
Required
7+ years of prior Ocean Freight experience at a top freight forwarder or carrier or 7+ years of supply chain experience and a BA/BS Degree
Strategic vision and ground floor execution
Bias to Action, Process, Structure and Data
Ability to work within Excel, Looker, Winmore
Strong negotiation skills
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
An obsession with client happiness. You succeed when they succeed
Ability to travel regionally
Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it. See something broken? Fix it
The desire to lead, train, and develop up-and-coming talent
A 'compliance first' attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry
Company
Flexport
Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Flexport has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (38)
2024 (30)
2023 (143)
2022 (121)
2021 (55)
2020 (48)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.7BKey Investors
ShopifyKohlberg Kravis RobertsSoftBank Vision Fund
2024-01-19Convertible Note· $260M
2023-08-30Series Unknown
2023-07-01Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Ryan Petersen
Founder and CEO
Stuart Leung
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
initialized.com
2026-01-14
felicis.com
2025-12-30
FundersClub
2025-12-29
Company data provided by crunchbase