Zonal Head - Ocean Freight (Kolkata)

Position Level: Zone Manager

Where would we see you daily: Kolkata

Who we are:

SAR Group of Companies ( https://www.sartransport.com/ ), in an employee-friendly multinational logistics and freight forwarding powerhouse with a presence in over 40 countries. Our team of 500+ trailblazers span 24 offices across India, the USA, and Southeast Asia, uniting expertise to fulfil all logistical, warehousing, and transportation needs. We're not just movers; we're architects of possibility, standing as one of the largest Freight Forwarders in the India-USA and India-Canada corridors. We have 15+ years of rich experience serving more than 50K+ customers across domains. As SAR we believe in innovation, customer centricity, and transparency and these core values always help us stay apart from our competition. Were on the path for an IPO in the next 3 years.

Our Vision:

To be the one stop source for importers & exporters providing end-to-end 360-degree solutions across all dimensions of freight forwarding, thereby, being the most preferred logistics partners across the globe by pioneering, transforming, and revolutionizing logistics tools and processes and delivering world class services.

Your Primary Role:

• Interact with customers regularly, meeting commitments and achieving high customer satisfaction levels.
• Network with industry counterparts, such as forwarders, co-loaders and Ocean carriers to understand market and competitive landscape in formulation sales forecasts.
• Meet or exceed Ocean forwarding revenue, volume and sales coverage targets for South India according to the sales plan.
• Actively manage Ocean Customers to push our Ocean product capabilities in order to ensure that we meet our Ocean product budget set for the South Region
• Achieve the GP budget for ocean at the Zone level.
• Identify and select target customers from various sources and develop a sales plan to achieve the market plan.
• Ensure pricing requests are justified and conform to freight forwarding pricing guidelines with balanced emphasis on net returns.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of weekly sales calls, and participate