Global Logistics Manager

Your days center on managing logistics across global operations — international freight, customs compliance, multi-modal transportation, and the regional warehouse networks that connect sourcing to customers. Most weeks include carrier negotiations, customs issue resolution, trade compliance reviews, and calls across time zones coordinating shipments that span continents.

The workflow blends operational coordination with regulatory compliance — you're routing shipments, managing freight forwarders, ensuring customs documentation is correct, monitoring trade regulations (tariffs, sanctions, country of origin), and troubleshooting the delays that international supply chains produce daily. Customs holds, port congestion, and carrier capacity issues are not exceptions; they're the background noise of the job.

The key challenge is managing cost and transit time across regulatory and operational complexity. International logistics is slower, more expensive, and more regulation-heavy than domestic. Every country has its own customs requirements, documentation standards, and compliance risks, and a single error in classification or documentation can hold a shipment at the border for weeks.