# Manager, Ocean Freight

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Logistics

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## Description

We are seeking a Manager, Ocean Freight to join our team in Singapore.

You will manage a sizeable Ocean P&L for your district through scaling volume and increasing yield. You will drive trade strategy execution, provide market-specific intelligence, and interface with clients. Your responsibilities will also include:

- Pursuing LoB growth through collaboration with District GMs, Sales, Business Development, and Account Management

- Reviewing the Sales pipeline in Salesforce to define action plans

- Helping design products and generate customized go-to-market strategies for clients

- Joining client calls as Ocean representative

- Owning tenders and RFQs for your district to secure regional and global clients

- Interfacing with Procurement and Pricing teams to drive profitable business

- Monitoring volume performance and booking intake against commitments

- Driving all financial health levers for your district

- Identifying and driving improvement in go-to-market, operational, and financial processes

- Building and owning P&L review and participating in book of business growth rhythms

- Using data to drive decisions

- Helping drive near and long-term district forecasting

- Working across Procurement, Pricing, Allocation & Planning, and District Management teams

- Growing existing and new local carrier relationships

- Collecting local market intelligence on rates, utilization, blank sailings, and extra loader plans

- Engaging in local procurement for new growth trades

- Taking on procurement for Partner/Co-Loaders within the areas

You should have:

- 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;

- Ability to travel regionally;

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

- The desire to lead, train, and develop up-and-coming talent

## Skills

### Required
- Ocean Freight
- Supply Chain
- Trade Strategy
- Salesforce
- Procurement
- Pricing

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