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Senior Air Freight Manager, TaiwanFlexport · Taipei, Taiwan
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Senior Air Freight Manager, Taiwan

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-01 Taipei, Taiwan Hybrid Manufacturing Transport Logistics
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 100,000 EUR–150,000 EUR/mo

About the Company

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That's why it's our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We're shaping the future of a 10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes-from emerging brands to Fortune 500s-use Flexport technology to move more than 19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people.

About the Job

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.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● 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.
  • ● Fuel growth by leveraging your core value drivers of procurement, pricing, planning and business development.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Identify procurement opportunities and lead strategic negotiations to secure the most value.
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  • ● Administer a clear vendor strategy for the region identifying which airlines, handlers, and truckers we should leverage.
  • ● Establish service level agreements.
  • ● 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 continuo.