Manager - Transport - Freight Forwarding

5 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Dp World Full time

**Job Purpose**

An exciting opportunity for a Transport Manager to join our growing team

This role will be responsible for overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution of all freight transport operations to ensure the safe, efficient, and cost-effective movement of goods. It includes managing carrier relationships, ensuring compliance, optimizing performance, and delivering customer satisfaction. You'll lead procurement, rate management, vendor onboarding, and a transport team while driving operational excellence and strategic development.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Manage spot pricing and long-term rate negotiations for FCL, LCL, air freight, breakbulk, and 3PL services.
- Secure specialized solutions for oversized and non-standard cargo.
- Negotiate, implement, and maintain long-term carrier agreements.
- Manage fuel surcharge models and system rate accuracy.
- Lead vendor onboarding and ensure compliance with DPW standards.
- Manage vendor invoicing, ensure dispute resolution, and maintain credit control.
- Drive the profitability and performance of transport operations (P&L oversight).
- Lead and develop the transport team, ensure safety and operational KPIs are met.
- Collaborate across departments, escalate issues as needed, and uphold team accountability

**Qualifications, Skills and Experience**
- 8+ years in freight forwarding, particularly in domestic transport
- 5+ years leading a team
- Strong understanding of the Australian supply chain
- Excellent computer skills
- Strong customer service skills and attention to detail
- Experience managing customer transport needs (import/export)
- Ability to work and resolve issues independently
- Cargowise (Wise-Tech) experience advantageous
- Customer service commitment
- Collaborative internal and external engagement
- Transport reporting experienced and able to provide insights
- Self-driven and results focused

**Supporting equality**

**About DP World**

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future. In Asia Pacific, DP World employs more than 7,000 people, and has ports and terminals in 17 locations.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

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