Airfreight Procurement Manager - KBX

As the Airfreight Procurement Manager, your role involves supporting our sales and operations teams by sourcing pricing and capacity aligned with the company's airfreight service offerings. In this role you will be responsible for negotiating rates with airlines, and other vendors, analyzing market trends in air freight pricing, building strategic relationships and driving the overall airfreight vendor expansion across the enterprise. You will ensure compliance with TSA and IATA regulations and air 3PL business standards.

Our Team

Join the growing Global Forwarding team at KBX by providing leadership to airfreight expansion by fostering a thriving relationship with strategic airline and surface transportation partnerships. Simultaneously you will represent airfreight on the KBX Procurement team ensuring alignment with the other service offerings (i.e. ocean freight).

What You Will Do

• Develop and manage strategic relationships with airlines, serving as the primary liaison for pricing, contracts, and invoicing issues.
• Negotiate and manage block space agreements and ensure carriers comply with contract terms.
• Analyze carrier rates and freight costs to identify negotiation opportunities and provide insights to business partners.
• Maintain and update airline rates in the KBX Global Forwarding rate quote tool.
• Provide spot quote pricing for transactional airfreight shipments and assist in customer RFPs with competitive buy rates.
• Establish key relationships for specific trade lanes and support airfreight gateway development.
• Source warehousing and local delivery services to support airfreight expansion in strategic markets.
• Monitor market trends to implement proactive solutions and offer guidance to the commercial team on trade lane focuses.
• Support the onboarding and approval process for new carriers, ensuring compliance with global airfreight laws and regulations.
• Travel as needed based on business requirements and location.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working within or closely with the airline industry pertaining to logistics or cargo management or freight forwarding
• Experience building strategic relationships with airlines, customers and additional stakeholders
• Experience negotiating pricing and contracts with airlines for block space agreements
• Experience analyzing carrier rates, freight costs and providing insights around pricing trends in the market
• Experience abiding by airfreight laws and regulations to ensure compliance

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience building an airfreight capability to better support customers
• Experience selling an airfreight solution to customers (internally or externally)
• Experience vetting and creating contracts/agreements for Air Carriers
• Experience working with commercial teams and other business partners to align on strategic goals
• Experience providing competitive pricing and support for customer RFPs and transactional shipments
• Experience evaluating international markets of trade lanes and gateway development
• Experience using Magaya and Gama

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit www.kbx.com

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.