Senior Air Freight Manager, Taiwan

The opportunity:

As a Sr. Air Freight Manager you are part of the core regional leadership team at Flexport overseeing the regional Air business of Flexport. You are a strategic thinker and a strong change leader able to set and implement the strategic roadmap. You excel at relationship building and can create strong partnerships internally and externally (carriers, customers) to support our strategy. You are a high energy, hands-on team leader able to lead and grow a team across multiple locations. You have a proven track record of driving profitable growth and deep experience managing P&Ls. You are a deep expert in the freight forwarding market and processes, able to guide your team on how to execute as well as interact with our software engineering team on building a best-in-class forwarding product.  

What You'll do

Set and implement the strategy for air freight in your region.

• Set the financial targets (volume, revenue, net revenue, gross profit, etc…) working hand in hand with Sales, Finance and Regional Air leadership
• Develop the strategy and tactics to execute against your Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
• End-to-end ownership of country P&L including gross revenue, COGS, net revenue and operating expenses. By leveraging your core value drivers of procurement, pricing, planning and business development you will fuel growth.
• Ownership of all operational metrics for your region including on-time performance, schedule quality, productivity
• Drive day-to-day the implementation of your region’s strategy, ensuring you have the right metrics in place to track performance, that objectives are well cascaded within your teams and steering execution against agreed initiatives
• Ensure we have regular reporting of progress against plan and promote visibility to the executive leadership of the company

Develop and execute your country’s procurement strategy for all trades

• Identify procurement opportunities and lead strategic negotiations to secure the most value.
• Administer a clear vendor strategy for the region identifying which airlines, handlers, and truckers we should leverage; establish service level agreements; and administer rigorous performance management.
• Formalize a long-term vision on where we want to procure ourselves vs. use a third-party forwarder and maintain an implementation roadmap.
• Establish and maintain executive-level relationships with key contacts at airlines domiciled in the region.
• Constantly monitor our end-to-end procurement cost vs. market and ensure the team continuously drives improvements in our overall competitiveness

Drive product development by building service capabilities for Flexport air in your region

Align regional product capabilities with the market by partnering closely with regional operations on end-to-end service level agreement standardization. 

• Develop new products when gaps persist. You are identifying market needs and building end-to-end solutions to bring Flexport to market parity or exceed market expectations. 
• Operations leadership on product quality, driving best-in-class quality as measured by on-time performance, schedule quality, and other metrics as defined 
• Partner with our product and engineering teams to identify product and feature gaps. You act as a business partner to them and provide subject matter expertise in order to establish produc