Area Air Logistics Manager

Are you thinking about advancing your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our Torrance is looking for a new Area Air Logistics Manager to join our Air Logistics team.

Your Role

The position is responsible for developing, leading and streamlining the Area Airfreight Team. This includes control and improvement of operational procedures, primary development liaison for sales including structuring air freight solutions and regional air carrier responsibility.

Your Responsibilities

Operational Responsibilities:

• Ensure that operation procedures are properly fulfilled within all airfreight departments.

• Aligns area resources and planning to overall business plans.

• Ensure all relevant/applicable KPI's set are met.

• Enforce compliance with internal/external regulation(s) (KN/government).

Data Quality:

• Comply/follow up with Data Quality and FSL requirements/schedules in close cooperation with airfreight data quality team.

• Ensure adherance to quality and safety guidelines and procedures.

Finance:

• Ensure billing status report accuracy.

• Monitor profit and loss target versus actual on a monthly basis for all airfreight operations within area.

• Support finance with accounts receivable issues.

Staff - Departments:

• Participate in airfreight recruitment/selection processes throughout area.

• Support Airfreight department managers with staffs overall training/cross training needs.

Airlines/Carriers Responsibilities:

• Review and take appropriate actions on quarterly airline/carrier performance reports.

• Negotiate rates together with corporate airfreight staff.

Business Development:

• Primary liaison with corporate business development and airfreight business development in assembling/preparing information for customers' RFQ for the area.

• Manage local and regional RFQs and provide air freight solutions.

• QBR and RFQ meetings with sales.

• Host role for business field Air Freight for all CST visitors.

Your Skills and Experiences

• Value propositions to client/sales.

• Escalation and support role for local department managers in all areas - local branch, regionally and nationally.

• Bachelor degree preferred.

• 5-10 years airfreight experience    

• 5 years experience in Freight Forwarding Operations / Customer Service / Sales.

• At least 3 years supervising a team with excellent results.

• Public speaking and presentation skills.

• Foreign language skills and overseas work experience beneficial.

• Travel 50% within the area and occasional international travel required.

Good Reasons to Join

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target salary range for this position is between $150,000.00 and $190,000.00. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-Onsite NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES - Please note that Kuehne+Nagel does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, KN will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, KN explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kuehne+Nagel.