Flexport

Business Operations Manager, Office of the CEO

San Francisco, California, United States. Posted 15 months ago

The role

You will work in the Office of the CEO to solve high-priority problems across freight modes or regions. You will build financial models, conduct research, and run operating cadences to provide actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

What you will do

  • Own biggest open questions end to end and provide recommendations for the CEO
  • Build analysis by pulling data and building models
  • Visit warehouses, ports, and customer supply chain teams
  • Run the operating cadence for a freight mode or region
  • Manage weekly metrics and quarterly plans
  • Get things unstuck by facilitating agreement between stakeholders
  • Use AI and automate tasks

Required qualifications

  • 4 to 6 years in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, a high-growth operating role, or running your own company
  • Ability to build a financial model from a blank sheet
  • Track record of turning ambiguous problems into recommendations for senior leaders
  • Relentless curiosity about how physical goods move
  • Clear, short writing
  • Judgment to influence people more senior than you
  • A compliance first attitude

Benefits

  • Direct exposure to the CEO and the executive team
  • A real operating job at the end of the role
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Flexible time off
  • Bonus
  • Equity

About the company

Flexport aims to make global commerce easy through innovative technology. The company moves more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

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