Senior Carrier Procurement Specialist

The role

You will drive cost savings and protect margins by optimizing Buy-to-Market spread through negotiation and contract management. You will build carrier partnerships and collaborate with sales and product teams to secure capacity and improve technology.

What you will do

• Lower Buy-to-Market costs through negotiation and securing long-term contract rates.
• Build and maintain carrier relationships to provide dedicated capacity.
• Partner with customer sales teams during bidding and RFP processes.
• Source, vet, and onboard carriers across multiple modes.
• Gather carrier feedback on digital tools to share with Product and Engineering teams.
• Work with product managers to test and launch new carrier-facing features.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• A deep understanding of full truckload pricing, lane dynamics, and US freight market trends across multiple modes of freight.
• Proficiency with data management systems and ability to present.

Nice to have

• 3-5+ years of experience within the carrier management, carrier procurement, carrier sales, or a related position.
• Hands-on experience with Transportation Management Systems (TMS), freight market intelligence tools (like DAT, Truckstop, or Sonar), and Google Sheets.
• Experience collaborating with product, tech, or UX teams to improve software, platforms, or mobile apps.
• Comfort collaborating with customer-facing sales teams, joining strategic shipper calls, and using capacity as a selling tool.
• Strong, confident communication skills with a proven track record of beating market averages, lowering Buy-to-Market (BtM) margins, and securing favorable contract rates within a 3PL, 4PL or a similar

Benefits

• Company sponsored health plan
• Dental and vision benefits
• 401k match
• Financial and mental wellness benefits
• Parental leave
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Performance or sales incentive bonus program
• Uber Freight equity awards

About the company

Uber Freight helps companies move goods more reliably and efficiently using real-time data. The company works with 1 in 3 Fortune 500 shippers across North America and manages over $17B in freight.