Senior Global Expansion Operations Lead

Jibe Ventures; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qogita is seeking a Sr. Manager for International Expansion Operations to launch globally. You will lead 0-to-1 operational challenges, design scalable processes, and hand over mature playbooks to central teams before repeating the cycle.

Build tooling with product/engineering to accelerate launches and manage a growing expansion team. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in operations or logistics, strong numbers skills including SQL, and a proven record of cross-border project leadership in

Qualifications

• 7+ years in operations, logistics, or supply chain, ideally in a start-up or scale-up with real physical operations.
• Experience launching or scaling an operation in a new country or region.
• Experience negotiating with freight, warehousing, or customs partners.
• Comfort with numbers: you can build a unit-economics model in a spreadsheet and query data in SQL.
• Strong project management: you've led complex projects across internal teams and external partners.
• The ability to learn an unfamiliar regulatory or operational area quickly and turn it into a process.
• Self-starter - you take initiative and prioritize in a fast-paced work environment.

Responsibilities

• Launch a DDP import service in 10 new countries over the next 12 months; you’ll own the operations and logistics P&L for each new country launch
• Map the import and export requirements in each market: duties, VAT, importer-of-record liability, licensing, and restrictions
• Select and onboard customs brokers, and build clearance processes that work at volume
• Source and negotiate air, ocean, and road freight and warehousing in each market
• Author market playbooks clear enough that someone who wasn't there can run the market without you
• Work with product and engineering to build tooling that makes each launch faster than the last
• Hire, manage and develop a team of interns and associates to support expansion
• What success looks like: 6 months, 3 markets live with landed cost unit economics at/below target; 12 months, 10+ markets handed over

Skills

Operations

Logistics

Supply chain

SQL

Project management

Analytical skills

Self-starter

Tools

Spreadsheet

Job description

Qogita is seeking a Sr. Manager for International Expansion Operations to launch globally. You will lead 0-to-1 operational challenges, design scalable processes, and hand over mature playbooks to central teams before repeating the cycle.

Build tooling with product/engineering to accelerate launches and manage a growing expansion team. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in operations or logistics, strong numbers skills including SQL, and a proven record of cross-border project leadership in