Regional Ocean Product Manager

Description

The Regional Ocean Product Manager will provide overall leadership and accountability for the European Ocean product. The role will connect Global Ocean Product with European Sales, Pricing, Procurement, Operations, and Finance.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the European Ocean product strategy.
• Own regional revenue, TEU, growth, and profitability objectives.
• Identify priority trade lanes, verticals, and customer segments.
• Lead carrier, capacity, allocation, and procurement alignment.
• Support strategic customer opportunities and major tenders.
• Provide market intelligence and competitive analysis.
• Coordinate Product, Pricing, Sales, and Operations decisions.
• Monitor regional performance and lead corrective actions.
• Develop FCL, LCL, and special-cargo capabilities.
• Represent Europe within the Global Ocean Product organization.

Business Impact

• This position will restore regional leadership, strengthen accountability, improve carrier and trade-lane strategy, accelerate commercial decision-making, and increase European pipeline conversion.

Reporting Line

• The role should report to the Vice President, Global Ocean Product and Control Tower, with appropriate alignment to European leadership.
• The position should also provide functional direction to the European Pricing and Tender Management roles.

Qualifications, experience and competencies

Experience & Business Requirements:

• Ten (10) or more years in the freight forwarders/carrier’s trade/pricing experience, of which minimum 7 years in management position
• In-depth knowledge of Ocean products
• Strong negotiation skills with global carrier/liners
• Good command of written and spoken English; other language skills such as French and Spanish a plus
• Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Attributes/Competencies:

• Visionary leadership, human relations and communication skills
• Strong organization, analytical, and problem solving skills
• High level of ownership and passion for the brand
• Excellent people management and motivation skills

Additional European locations may be also considered.

FedEx Logistics provides freight forwarding, as well as import and export services that allow companies to reach markets throughout the world. They help customers of all sizes solve the intricacies of shipping goods globally by providing comprehensive international ocean and air freight forwarding, surface transportation and distribution, customs brokerage, trade and customs advisory services, and advanced e-commerce and trade facilitation solutions. We're glad you stopped by and hope your job search experience with FedEx Logistics, Inc. will be rewarding. We look forward to hearing from you!