Your responsibilities as a Senior Global Operations Associate include, but are not limited to, the following:

Responsibilities:

• Be the “front line” in ensuring the highest standard of Flexport quality: shipments move on-time and exceptions are handled appropriately. In addition, supporting your team in mid to high escalations, high complexity movements, delicate communication, and other tactical touch points.
• You will also support the manager in guiding the team to improve and deliver great performance, including data quality and shipment milestone timeliness; at the same time ensure your work satisfies internal KPIs and SLAs that demonstrate quality delivery.
• You will follow standard operating procedures (SOP) and support in building scalable operational infrastructure and procedures to ensure the delivery of the highest levels of efficiency and productivity for your customers. You will continuously look for opportunities to improve them and take action on the improvements.
• You will personally represent Flexport’s value proposition by leading business implementation and shipment execution for new clients and opportunities.
• You will act as the primary point of contact for internal and external escalations, making sure to solve client issues quickly and ensure smooth operations at origin/destination and escalate issues as needed. You will always be acting in the best interest of the company by avoiding leakages and ensuring cost conscious behavior.

Overall, your team will:

• Seamlessly coordinate day-to-day logistics operations with internal and external partners such as Airlines, cartage, customs, trade lane management, and warehousing.
• Execute the end-to-end movement of freight shipments within a regional network (both imports and exports), including trucking movements.
• Assist the shipments managed by partners as we drive partner autonomy (if applicable in a given region).

Pre-requisites:

• A successfully completed apprenticeship or a BA/BS degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Business
• 3+ years of experience in freight forwarding, logistics / supply chain, or Air carrier operations (Air freight knowledge is a strongly preferred)
• Fluent in English and Italian (other European languages are a plus)
• Able to adapt to new technology and can thrive in a fast paced environment
• Effective time management. Be able to properly prioritize and manage a large volume of tasks and commitments 
• Hands-on, process-oriented, structured thinking with strong problem-solving capabilities 
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Ability to effectively build feedback loops within the team, for a product, or service
• Teamwork and relationship building
• A client service mindset; you are obsessed with client satisfaction, and strive to investigate and troubleshoot the client’s problem
• Designing and optimizing processes
• Problem-solving capabilities: Building consensus among people with differing opinions
• A “compliance first” attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry.

What else: 

• You will work in a beautiful office in the city center of Milan with modern office equipment and a first class connection to the public transport system of Milan
• You will work in a fast growing and changing environment with a high motivated team, which is always open to hear your ideas
• We invest in your personal and professional development by offering you internal and external trainings
• During regular team events you can have a lot of fun with your teammates and connect with them aside from your working day

What's in it for you: 

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment 
• 22 vacation days, additionally paid permits and time off, canceled holidays and ROL 
• Lunch compensation
• Health Insurance & Life insurance
• Statutory pension contributions 
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living: Flexport provides an employer-sponsored program at no cost to you and your household members
• Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child

If you are interested, please submit your resume in English. Thank you!

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The opportunity: 

 The Senior Account Manager will help their clients grow and realize the Flexport value proposition by deeply understanding the client’s supply chain and partnering to find solutions for their clients. Our clients depend on us to manage their experience with a high degree of professionalism and attention to detail.

You will: 

Your responsibilities as a Senior Account Manager include, but are not limited to the following:

• Navigate complex organizational hierarchies with key client executives and stakeholders that empower the client and deepen the relationship with Flexport.
• Meet regularly with clients to monitor the account health and find ways to improve on their current experience.
• Use your deep knowledge of the client to identify, develop, and close upsell, cross sell and renewal opportunities.
• Keep a close pulse on client financial health, reporting on the client’s financials and ensuring clients maintain consistent payment schedules.
• Lead and actively participate in client onboarding and creating standard operating procedures.
• Scope and guide the implementation stages and timelines for new opportunities and clients.
• Work globally with counterparts in Asia, North America and Latin America to ensure a consistent account management experience.
• Monitor client metrics data, working with Global Operations teams to ensure metrics consistently meet client expectations, address escalations and solve clients issues effectively and efficiently.
• Lead and prepare content for regular client touch points to help clients understand the value they are realizing and new opportunities to improve performance.
• Use your intensive knowledge of the client’s business to architect 3-year supply chain roadmaps that align with the client's global business goals.
• Drive product adoption with client stakeholders to ensure that clients realize the full value with Flexport.
• Regularly review and document the client’s success criteria. As the client’s needs evolve, you will refine the client’s success criteria.
• Continue to expand your knowledge of supply chain processes though internal and external training offerings to best enable you to act as a trusted advisor.
• You will use and maintain data to monitor the health of your respective book of business such as in SalesForce so that you can identify ways to improve the client’s Flexport experience
• Mentor and help coach fellow Account Managers on how best to support client needs and build long term partnerships

We are kindly asking candidates to apply with a CV in English

You should have:

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain operations, sales/account management or a client facing role.
• 2+ years experience in logistics, freight forwarding, or supply chain.
• Client-centric:obsessed with client outcomes, doing what it takes to deliver the client’s expectations, understanding your client’s current and future business goals and challenges and translating those into relevant solutions and strategic account planning.
• Hands-on, process-oriented, structured thinking with strong problem-solving skills.
• Deeply curious: always working to understand the client’s needs and learn how Flexport can best meet them.
• Next-level attention to detail: enjoy combing through the metrics and details to identify opportunities to improve internally or better manage the client relationship.
• Strong business acumen.
• Proven track record of (cross) selling a product.
• Strong focus on growing your customers through a consultative approach.

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment 
• 22 vacation days, additionally paid permits and time off, canceled holidays and ROL 
• Lunches compensation up to 12 euros / days
• Health Insurance & Life insurance
• Statutory pension contributions 
• Employee assistance program via Aetna Resources For Living. Flexport offers an employer-sponsored program available at no cost to you and all household members
• Equity program: all employees at Flexport become company shareholders because we believe everyone is contributing into company’s success 
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child. 

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A unique opportunity to build and scale a business, supercharge your Sales career with Flexport Italy (Milan)

The opportunity:

Flexport is both a freight forwarding and a software company. Being at the intersection of logistics and tech has allowed us to develop a unique value proposition that customers are extremely excited about, which has resulted in Flexport having grown exponentially over the past 9 years. As part of our mission to make global trade easy for everyone, and our unrelenting desire to grow, we are expanding into Italy. 

This is a unique opportunity for the experienced and well-connected (senior) Sales Executive that you are to be in the driver’s seat of building up a business, growing it aggressively and leaving your mark in the market. You will be part of a high performing and engaged commercial team equally excited as you to build up Flexport’s italian presence and to solve customer problems with tech-enabled freight forwarding.  

Welcome to the future!

You will be:

• Building and growing Flexport Italy together with your colleagues, our ambitions are high!
• Identifying good fit clients - both self-prospected and generated by your SDR team
• Consulting with new clients to understand their supply chain needs and pains
• Creating a value add solution, demonstrating our capabilities through remote and in-person meetings
• Closing the deal - that goes without saying!
• Leading the customer onboarding process by leveraging internal resources and teams
• You’ll be joining a sales team with a lot of emphasis on growth, combining great culture, a place to succeed and focus on career development make this a fun & dynamic place to work.

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment 
• 22 vacation days, additionally paid permits and time off, canceled holidays and ROL 
• Lunches compensation up to 12 euros / days
• Health Insurance & Life insurance
• Statutory pension contributions 
• Employee assistance program via Aetna Resources For Living. Flexport offers an employer-sponsored program available at no cost to you and all household members
• Equity program: all employees at Flexport become company shareholders because we believe everyone is contributing into company’s success 
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child. 
• Monthly reimbursement of mobile phone expenses.

Your responsibilities as a Global Operations Associate include, but are not limited to, the following:

Responsibilities:

• Be the “front line” in ensuring the highest standard of Flexport quality: shipments move on-time and exceptions are handled appropriately
• Be responsible for ensuring your work satisfies internal KPIs and SLAs that demonstrate quality delivery
• Follow standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Solve client issues quickly and ensure smooth operations at origin and destination and escalate issues as needed
• Acting in the best interest of the company by avoiding leakages and ensuring cost conscious behavior 
• Seamlessly coordinate day-to-day logistics operations with internal and external partners such as steamship lines, air carriers, intermodal and drayage vendors, customs, trade lane management, warehousing, transloading, trucking, and the air operations team
• Execute the end-to-end movement of freight shipments within a regional network (both imports and exports), including intermodal movements
• Assist the shipments managed by partners as we drive partner autonomy (if applicable in a given region)

Prerequisites:

• BA/BS Degree or completed professional training as forwarding agent
• 1-2+ years of experience in logistics, freight forwarding, supply chain, Air carrier operations (Air freight knowledge is a plus)
• Fluent in Italian and English (other European languages are a plus)
• Able to adapt to new technology and can thrive in a fast paced environment
• Effective time management, be able to properly prioritize and manage a large volume of tasks
• Attention to detail
• Ability to effectively seek and receive feedback
• Effective communication both verbally and in writing
• Teamwork and relationship building
• Orientation towards working smarter and adopting best practices and standardization
• Problem-solving capabilities
• A “compliance first” attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry

What else: 

• You will work in a beautiful office in the city center of Milan with modern office equipment and a first class connection to the public transport system of Milan
• You will work in a fast growing and changing environment with a high motivated team, which is always open to hear your ideas
• We invest in your personal and professional development by offering you internal and external trainings
• During regular team events you can have a lot of fun with your teammates and connect with them aside from your working day

What's in it for you: 

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment 
• 22 vacation days, additionally paid permits and time off, canceled holidays and ROL 
• Lunch compensation
• Health Insurance & Life insurance
• Statutory pension contributions 
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living: Flexport provides an employer-sponsored program at no cost to you and your household members
• Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child

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