Air Logistics Gateway Operations Specialist

Gateway & Procurement Specialist

It's more than a job. When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimizing processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

Would you like to launch your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our Bensenville, IL site is looking for a new Gateway & Procurement Specialist to join our Air Logistics team.

How you create impact:

• Responsible for processing the Master Air Waybill (MAWB) consolidations
• Handling the coordination and management of trade lanes
• Overseeing all aspects of the Air Transportation Agreement (ATA) process
• Ensuring that all required documents and procedures are properly executed and compliant with regulations
• Provide excellent customer service and ongoing support
• Prepare, handle, and process documentation needed for air export consolidations
• Work and collaborate with the air export departments in the region
• Arrange bookings with carriers; improve cargo consolidations
• Ensure processing and delivery to the airport; constant communication with the warehouse team and truck dispatch during the consolidation process
• Track and trace shipments; monitor vendor performance; address and resolve service irregularities
• Help maintain relationships with vendors and internal customers
• Maintain compliance standards, including internal procedures, external government regulations, and customer requirements
• Meet goals to support department, branch, product, and our goals
• Schedule: Tuesday-Saturday 8:00am-4:00pm
• Reports to the Gateway and Procurement Manager

What we would like you to bring:

• Associate's degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in Air Logistics-Export
• Good knowledge of international geography including countries, major cities

What's in it for you? There has never been a better time to work in logistics. Bring your skills to an industry that offers stability and international career growth. We offer a great compensation and medical/dental benefits package, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs, and a fun, and interesting global work environment.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment). Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel.

Kuehne+Nagel is an equal employment/affirmative action employer.