Freight Consultant

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits

FlexiLeave

Learning and development

Employee discounts

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Freight Consultant to manage our domestic and international freight network, working with freight forwarders, suppliers and partners to deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions for time-critical movements.

You’ll analyse performance data, support commercial activity, and lead improvement initiatives while balancing service quality, cost and risk across the network. This role requires strong stakeholder management and end-to-end freight operations knowledge.

Qualifications

• Experience in freight forwarding, aviation freight or complex supply chains.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end freight operations and time-critical movements.
• Experience managing freight forwarders, contracts, SLAs and supplier performance.
• Strong commercial acumen to analyse freight costs and balance cost, service and risk.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships and performance across freight forwarder and logistics provider networks to meet SLAs and service expectations.
• Coordinate domestic and international freight solutions, including time-critical movements.
• Analyse freight performance, costs and operations to identify gaps and improvements.
• Support commercial activity including rate cards, supplier performance and cost optimization.
• Lead freight and logistics projects delivering operational, commercial and service outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement in freight processes with stakeholder engagement and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Freight forwarding

Aviation freight

International logistics

Supply chain analysis

Tools

Freight management systems

Contract management software

Job description

Kia ora! Play a key role in keeping Air New Zealand's operation moving through the effective management of our domestic and international freight network. As a Freight Consultant, you'll work across the business and with our global freight partners to deliver reliable, commercially competitive freight solutions for everything from day-to-day requirements through to complex and time-critical movements. As part of the Air New Zealand Freight team, you'll combine operational freight expertise with commercial thinking, supplier management and strong stakeholder relationships. You'll help ensure we use the right freight solution, with the right provider, at the right time and cost, while continuously looking for opportunities to improve performance and deliver value.

About the role

• Manage relationships and performance across our freight forwarder and logistics provider network, ensuring contractual obligations, SLAs and service expectations are delivered
• Coordinate domestic and international freight solutions, including complex, time-critical and non-standard movements
• Analyse freight performance, cost and operational data to identify performance gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Support commercial activity including rate cards, supplier performance and cost optimisation, balancing service, risk and value
• Lead and support freight and logistics projects, delivering against agreed operational, commercial and service outcomes
• Drive continuous improvement across freight processes while building strong stakeholder relationships and ensuring regulatory and compliance requirements are met.

What we're looking for

• Strong experience within freight forwarding, aviation freight, international logistics or a similarly complex supply chain environment
• Sound knowledge of end-to-end freight operations, including experience managing complex or time-critical movements
• Experience managing freight forwarders or logistics providers, including contracts, SLAs, KPIs and supplier performance
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse freight costs and balance cost, service and operational risk
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to influence, challenge and build effective relationships
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, solve complex problems and identify improvements that deliver measurable cost, process or service benefits.

Why join Air New Zealand?

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work.

• Generous staff travel benefits for you and eligible friends and whānau.
• FlexiLeave, giving you the opportunity to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave each year.
• A learning culture with development opportunities that help you grow your career.
• Access to a wide range of employee discounts, wellbeing resources and support programmes.
• Competitive superannuation contributions and access to healthcare and insurance benefits for eligible employees.

Ready for take-off?

If you're an experienced freight professional who enjoys solving complex problems, managing supplier performance and finding better, more commercially effective ways to move freight, we'd love to hear from you.

Bring your freight expertise, commercial thinking and drive for continuous improvement and help us strengthen the freight operation that supports Air New Zealand every day.

Applications close Sunday 20th September 2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."