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Regional Head, Gateways and 3rd Party Agents

Maersk
Elk Grove Village, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Jul 2025
💰 $210,000/yr($180,000/yr$210,000/yr)

About the role

Are You Ready to Navigate the Future of Global Trade?

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and has been an industry pioneer for over a century. Through innovation and transformation, we are redefining the boundaries of possibility and continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.

We believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning, and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organization reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve. With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.

What we Offer:

  • Global Reach, Local Impact: Thrive in a role with international scope, contributing to projects that shape global trade.

  • Inclusive and Dynamic Culture: Join a team where diversity is strength, fostering an environment rich in personal and professional growth opportunities.

  • Competitive Rewards: Benefit from a compensation package matching your role as a leading industry player, complemented by best-in-class benefits and talent development programs recognized worldwide.

About the role:

Responsible for overseeing and ensuring effective operations of a regional network of Import/Export Gateways, as well as complying with Global Gateway Policy, managing tactical procurement, establishing a cost-effective structure and generating a monthly balanced scorecard to drive GP improvement, cost management and service improvements. Ownership of all 3rd party agents, relationships, profitability and growth.

In this role, you will:

  • Ensure process and staffing standardization accross all Gateway Operations

  • Create Balanced Scorecard for each operation and align key measureables to be reported on a monthly basis – establish improvement goals for each criteria – by Gateway

  • Set GP improvement goals through optomizing the building of large effective consolidations and relentless tactical procurement

  • Ensure operational alignment among regional gateways

  • Adherence to Global Gateway Policy – manditory use unless approved exceptions (DG, Express etc) Measure to ensure compliance  

  • Optimize volume flows objective of achieving best possible lowest net achieved costs and respective promised transit times

  • Execute, design and optomize road feeder structure to feed and de-feed stations to Gateway (Import/Export)

  • Coordinate/measure  with countries to ensure gateway routing dicipline and  that routing guides is adhered to

  • Establish new consol destination as required

  • Ensure compliance to all reglatory requirements – CFS / Screening

  • Strong inclusion in RFQ pricing process

  • Maintain / Develop relationshipments with Regional Third Party Agents

  • Support the Airfreight Growth within our agency network though education, pricing and sales support

  • Create the needed measurements to assess growth in agent business and GP within the Maersk Network

  • Establish GP/Tonnage Growth targets for agents – with ongoing monthly measurements.

  • Assess 3rd party Agent financial and operational performance

  • Actively participate in carrier data driven performance reviews

  • Responsible and ensure effective CW implmentation and ongoing process management

  • Ownership of the ISO9001-2015 standard as pertains to gatways effectiveness

What you bring:

  • A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience is required

  • At least 10 years of experience in positions of increasingly responsibility airfreight industry

  • Proven track record with air carriers in the market

  • Ability to work within a team and communicate with both internal and external stakeholders in a professional manner

  • Ability to manage workload independently and with attention to deadlines

Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock global opportunities. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk.

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