Global Export & Transportation Leader — Strategy & Growth

FreightPath, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Vacation

Holidays

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Health Savings Account

Parental Leave

Job summary

Expeditors is seeking a senior Product Leader to oversee Air Export, Ocean Export, Transcon, and Distribution. You will drive operating strategy, align priorities with customers and branches, and ensure disciplined execution across multiple product lines.

You will manage end-to-end export and distribution execution, maintain SOPs, and lead cross-functional teams to optimize service quality, profitability, and risk management. Strong analytics and stakeholder skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software development principles.
• Experience with automation platforms such as Power Automate.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot and M365 technologies.
• Familiarity with data structures, APIs, integrations, and system architecture.
• Basic understanding of AI, machine learning, LLMs, and prompt engineering.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues independently.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to understand complex operational processes.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Certifications in Microsoft Power Platform, Azure AI, Microsoft Copilot, or related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead operating strategy for Air Export, Ocean Export, Transcon, and Distribution.
• Align product priorities with customer needs, branch goals, compliance, service quality, and profitability.
• Drive standard work, escalation discipline, reporting habits, and cross-product coordination.
• Oversee export, transportation, and distribution execution, including booking, routing, documentation, pickup and delivery coordination, warehouse flow, milestone visibility, and customer communication.
• Ensure customer SOPs, operational controls, safety expectations, security requirements, and service standards are followed consistently.
• Manage exceptions, service recovery, capacity needs, and operational risks across assigned products.
• Partner with Sales, CRDM, Account Management, T&I, Finance, Product leaders, Facility, Security, and district leadership to support customer onboarding, RFQs, QBRs, service recovery, and retention.
• Manage revenue growth, margin performance, billing quality, cost control, local charge discipline, and profitable execution.
• Lead carrier, trucking, cartage, distribution, and specialty provider performance.
• Recruit, train, coach, develop, and retain strong employees and future leaders.
• Promote accurate system use, data integrity, dashboard adoption, timely reporting, and exception visibility.
• Use customer feedback, employee input, root cause analysis, and operational data to improve service reliability, scalability, and team capability.

Skills

Software development

Automation platforms

Copilot & M365

APIs & Integrations

AI & ML basics

Technical troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Operational processes

Business requirements to tech

Stakeholder management

Education

Certifications: Power Platform / Azure AI

Tools

Power Automate

Microsoft Copilot

Azure AI

APIs & Integrations

Microsoft 365 (M365)

Job description

Expeditors is seeking a senior Product Leader to oversee Air Export, Ocean Export, Transcon, and Distribution. You will drive operating strategy, align priorities with customers and branches, and ensure disciplined execution across multiple product lines.

You will manage end-to-end export and distribution execution, maintain SOPs, and lead cross-functional teams to optimize service quality, profitability, and risk management. Strong analytics and stakeholder skills are essential.