# Manager, Ocean Freight

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $105,600-$132,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Logistics

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## Description

We are looking for a Manager, Ocean Freight to drive ocean carrier procurement for a particular tradelane and take direct responsibility for one or multiple carriers.

Responsibilities:

- Drive all things ocean carrier procurement for a particular tradelane and take direct responsibility for one or multiple carriers

- Coordinate and negotiate annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly allocation procurement activities

- Help decide the global carrier strategy and align your tradelane’s carrier strategy to help the global team hit their goals

- Help develop long term partnerships with ocean carriers, demonstrating Flexport’s competitive advantages

- Drive procurement costs down

- Provide supply forecasting so that we ensure we can satisfy demand

- Build scalable procurement operating rhythms and tools

- Partner with Technology teams to develop next generation procurement systems

- Drive process standardization and improvement initiatives globally

- Educate and enable the broader Flexport organization with carrier and tradelane intelligence to foster better decision making and client engagement

- Manage a team of procurement associates that will drive initiatives

- Lead regular cross team meetings

- Initiate system and process improvements for the team

- Up-level the future ocean procurement experts of Flexport

- Work across Procurement, Pricing, Planning, and District Management teams to deliver globally optimized results to the Ocean P&L

Requirements:

- 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;

- Strong negotiation skills

- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills;

- An obsession with client happiness. You succeed when they succeed;

- Ability to travel regionally, nationally, and internationally;

- Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it.

Benefits:

- The US base salary range for this position is $105,600-$132,000 USD

- Comprehensive benefit offerings such as medical, dental, and flexible time off

## Skills

### Required
- Ocean Freight
- procurement
- supply chain
- negotiation
- communication

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