Branch Manager – Atlantic Canada

You are a genuine superstar within the logistics industry. You are ready to make a difference and yearning to make an impact. The Halifax branch of this world class Forwarder has a solid history of exceeding targets and yielding remarkable profit figures

You are a career Freight Forwarding professional, someone who can provide leadership, drive operational excellence, and deliver growth. The perfect candidate is highly skilled in both operations and client management and thus is capable of deriving operational excellence and driving sales growth.  In effect, we are looking for the rare candidate who can “do it all” and has “done it all” directly within the Freight Forwarding industry.

The organization as a whole provides expert level solutions along the entire breadth of services offered: air, ocean, transborder, customs brokerage, warehousing, contract logistics, ground, special projects, customs consulting, international, domestic, import, export and much more. No opportunity is too large or too complex to be successfully met by this world-class organization.

You will be an agile thinker and nimble in your approach to volatility, uncertainty and variance. Ripe for change and rife with areas for improvement, you will have experience with change management and possess a keen eye for process design and optimization! Implementing industry leading best practices, spearheading transformative change, your continuous improvement efforts will propel this branch to greater and grander heights of success.

You bring an exceptional operational understanding and a desire to “roll up your sleeves” and get involved. Business development acumen and a focus on top line revenue growth is also important as a sales driven culture is put in motion from the top down.

Financial skills are another valued asset as you will be responsible for the P&L, and as always, when the numbers talk you must be able to understand what they are telling you.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you will be a talented and charismatic leader who has a knack for guiding, directing and empowering highly effective teams, as well as a interacting and engaging with external stakeholders.

This is an EXCELLENT opportunity with an EXCELLENT company. We look forward to discussing this exciting opportunity with all qualified applicants in the Halifax area! Also, if you are currently living outside of Atlantic Canada and were looking for just the right opportunity to return home then this might just be it. Should this be the case, relocation assistance is available!