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The Air Logistics Procurement Manager is responsible for leading carrier relationships and overseeing procurement activities

Your Role

This role includes managing the procurement of long-term agreements, creating and maintaining contracts, providing information for internal visibility, and continuously exchanging information with carrier partners regarding performance, contract compliance, and commercial adherence

Your Responsibilities

• Source and procure air freightcapacity with commercial carries, charter carriers and GSAs that arecost-effective and in line with GA-X procurement strategy

• Negotiate with and selectcarriers based on demand, rate, capacity and service quality

• Continuously review existingcontracts and allotments with airlines to ensure on-going feasibility

• Ensure the correct administrationof contracts, by ensuring documentation through Procurement Master fileand Allocation-code usage

• Build and maintain long-termrelationships with our airline partners and with the GSA community andscout and develop new ones

• Regularly assess carrierperformance and organize business review meetings with our main airlinepartners

• Prepare procurement reports andcontrol contract usage

• Support and collaborate with Gateway operationsand development teams, to enhance service, commercial attractiveness and marketleading solutions

Your Skills and Experiences

• Bachelors / First University Degree Business/ Logistics / Finance or related fields

• ExcellentKnowledge of Air Logistics transportation

• Experiencein direct customer contact

• AdvancedInterpersonal/Intercultural skills in order to manage variety of stakeholdersin countries

• Abilityto influence, negotiate and resolve conflicts

• Strong decision making capabilities and high accountability; ability and willingness to decide on the basis of agreed criteria and to make decisions also in difficult situations

• Ability to recognize industry and market trends and developments and to translate them into profitable business opportunities

• Willingness to collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure clarity of the requirements and in decision making process, to get buy-in and to implement solutions

• Ability to work under pressure and deal with tight deadlines/timelines with high energy and resilience

• In-depth knowledge of preparing and reviewing contracts, invoicing and negotiation terms

• Excellent analytical, financial and problem-solving skills , strategic and planning skills, international mindset

Kuehne + Nagel is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you require an accommodation for any part of the online application process due to a disability, please contact the Employee Services HR Help Desk at 1-800-267-1326 during the hours of 8:00am - 5:00pm EST; Monday through Friday or via e-mail at: HR.helpdesk@kuehne-nagel.com with the nature of your request. We will answer your inquiry within 24 hours.