Air Export Ops Leader: Global Gateway & Cost Optimizer

Material Handling Resources, LLC; Franklin Square (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement match

Paid maternity and parental leave

Career development programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Material Handling Resources, LLC seeks an Air Freight Gateway Operations Manager to lead export gateway operations, optimize capacity planning, and ensure cost efficiency. You will coordinate interfaces across functions, manage incident escalation with stakeholders, and drive KPI achievement across internal and external benchmarks.

The role requires strong collaboration with global carriers, oversight of billing and ITP processes, and a proactive approach to spot-rate opportunities to maximize

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and training.
• Minimum 3 years of management experience.
• A broad knowledge of global customs regulations and policies, with significant experience in global Air freight and customs brokerage industries
• Understanding of warehouse and CFS operations. Extensive airfreight experience.
• PC literate to include Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel and Outlook

Responsibilities

• Manage the Export operation of the Gateway; overview of inbound and outbound freight flow
• Sets up the capacity planning (allotments optimization, BSA, consolidation share)
• Escalates and exchanges incident issues with stakeholders whenever necessary and appropriate
• Assist with large ad hoc opportunities - decide on spot rates for business opportunities in order to optimize cost of sale
• Develops, cultivates, and maintains local relationship with carriers
• Measures and achieve internal and external KPI’s
• Oversees ITP calculation in assigned area to keep the resulting under/over coverage within the defined maximum tolerance level, interpreting the net archived rate figures
• Check and approving of invoices in line of established signing power regulations
• Liaise with Operations in the Business Units to ensure correct job costing, correct ECA/ICA assignment on MAWB (ITP) files

Skills

Management experience

Global collaboration

KPI measurement

Communication skills

MS Office proficiency

Job description

Material Handling Resources, LLC seeks an Air Freight Gateway Operations Manager to lead export gateway operations, optimize capacity planning, and ensure cost efficiency. You will coordinate interfaces across functions, manage incident escalation with stakeholders, and drive KPI achievement across internal and external benchmarks.

The role requires strong collaboration with global carriers, oversight of billing and ITP processes, and a proactive approach to spot-rate opportunities to maximize