# Manager, Ocean Freight

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Los Angeles, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,800-$121,000 USD
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are seeking a Manager of Regional Ocean Management to oversee a multi-million dollar Ocean P&L for their district. This role is crucial for scaling volume, increasing yield, and driving profitability through expert market knowledge and strategic interfacing with customers.

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 customers

- Help design products and generate customized go-to-market strategies for customers

- Own tenders and RFQs for your district to secure regional and global customers

- 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

- Join on a regular basis client calls

- Drive all financial health levers for your district including quoting, invoicing, and dispute escalation

- 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

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;

- Strategic vision and ground floor execution;

- Bias to Action, Process, Structure and Data;

- 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.

The US base salary range for this position is $96,800-$121,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Ocean Freight
- Supply Chain
- Market Knowledge
- Strategic Interfacing
- Procurement
- Pricing
- Data Analysis

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