Ocean Freight Sales Executive - Ocean Export, Food & Beverage

Skypace; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Skypace is seeking a sales professional to enhance its Food & Beverage ocean export portfolio in South Florida. The role offers a commission structure with no cap, building on strong client relationships to optimize performance across shipments.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in ocean freight sales, deep knowledge of export processes, and direct access to decision-makers in the Food & Beverage sector. Join Skypace to leverage a proactive environment and drive successful outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of ocean freight sales with verifiable client relationships among South Florida Food & Beverage exporters.
• Lane fluency out of Port Everglades; reefer and perishable handling, food-grade container discipline.
• Fluency in export freight vocabulary including AES and EEI filing.

Responsibilities

• Grow and expand a portfolio of South Florida Food & Beverage exporter accounts.
• Track overall account and portfolio performance.
• Partner with the procurement and account management teams for competitive service proposals.

Skills

Food & beverage export, reefer and perishable handling, NVOCC sales

CRM operation

ISF compliance

Job description

If you sell ocean export to South Florida Food & Beverage exporters through Port Everglades, this role keeps your accounts attributed to you and your commission uncapped. Year 1 commission runs at 25% of gross profit with no cap, and sunset rates keep paying you on retained accounts across the first three Account Years.

About Skypace

Skypace serves shippers whose freight programs depend on consistent execution across repeated ocean movements, multiple service providers, and constant commercial pressure on cost, timing, and space allocation. For these companies, performance is shaped by how systematically pricing, allocation, and milestone visibility move alongside the shipment itself.

Skypace operates a global operating environment where this coordination is built into the workflow as a structural standard. Shippers, carriers, drayage providers, and internal teams operate through a shared data structure that accumulates context, supports timely decisions, and preserves the operational record across the shipment lifecycle.

Today, this model supports more than 150 customers across 18 countries through direct integrations with top 10 ocean carriers, among them MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO, and Hapag-Lloyd. The operating environment optimizes shipper performance across freight cost, communication discipline, error reduction, booking speed, and visibility into how each participating party performs against commitment.

Operational data accumulates as a clean, structured record that supports continuous process improvement today and becomes foundational as supply chains integrate AI-driven decision agents into planning, execution, and exception handling.

Why this role exists

This role builds out Skypace's Food & Beverage ocean export portfolio through Port Everglades, serving South Florida exporters shipping to markets including Nassau, Jebel Ali, Ghana. It is positioned for a sales professional who already operates inside the South Florida Food & Beverage export ecosystem and whose book benefits from broader carrier coverage, faster pricing response, and reliable handling across the shipment lifecycle.

Experience

3+ years (36 months)

Incentive

Year 1: 15% of GP, no cap. Sunset: 12% (Y2), 9% (Y3+). Bonus accelerator: 10% of GP on three highest GP months.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of ocean freight sales with verifiable client relationships among South Florida Food & Beverage exporters
• Lane fluency out of Port Everglades; reefer and perishable handling, food‑grade container discipline
• Fluency in export freight vocabulary (booking and equipment allocation at origin, AES and EEI filing, free time and detention, House BL versus Master BL, rolling and cutoff management)
• Decision‑maker access at two or more accounts

Responsibilities

• Grow and expand a portfolio of South Florida Food & Beverage exporter accounts
• Track overall account and portfolio performance
• Partner with the procurement and account management teams to build more competitive service proposals for customers across pricing, technology, and scale
• Track attribution in CRM from day one of activation, with account managers and operations owning day‑to‑day client management and delivery

Skills

• Food & beverage export, reefer and perishable handling, NVOCC sales
• CRM operation
• ISF compliance

How the operation runs

Skypace operates on a proactive monitoring discipline. Milestones are tracked through live data across the entire shipment ecosystem. When a deviation in schedule, cost, or capacity surfaces within the operating environment, Skypace initiates the next operational action before the client encounters the problem.

The instant‑quote and online booking engine compresses commercial response time from days to minutes. Carrier MQC commitments hold during peak season, which is the period when allocation decides whether a shipper's seasonal cycle preserves its margin or absorbs unplanned cost.

The quote engine surfaces every accessorial at the quote stage, including peak surcharges, GRI, port congestion fees, drayage components, and specialty equipment or reefer plug charges where applicable. The number the client sees at quote stands on the invoice. Skypace treats pricing integrity as a commercial discipline that holds from quote through to settlement.