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Country Manager (f/m/d) Italy
What if… your work empowered change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to exactly do that – disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our exponentially growing team of technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day with the goal to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing towards our moonshot goal of achieving climate neutral operations by 2025.
In our Commercial department we strive to lead the global logistics revolution by fostering long-term growth, generating revenue through innovative and sustainable solutions. We are expanding our digital footprint to provide tech-enabled support, unparalleled transparency, and exceptional service experiences for supply chains worldwide.
Your role
As Country Manager (f/m/d) you will lead, develop and engage the Italian team across functions. You’ll oversee budgets and foster relationships with clients, partners as well as stakeholders. Drive Forto’s growth in the Italian market by translating the overall strategy to fit the local market and using growth opportunities. Furthermore you will scale and expand seafreight transportation and built our airfreigth transportation in Italy.
You will
- Align the market strategy with company goals and Forto's business plan
- Manage market performance, including volumes and gross profit, and ensure high customer engagement
- Oversee market budget planning and ensure productivity targets are met
- Represent the market value proposition to customers and support team enablement
- Lead a cross-functional team and develop, train and enable team members to achieve performance targets
- Ensure market compliance and handle local management responsibilities
- Drive profitable growth by overseeing all market aspects, from prospecting to operational excellence
- Manage the opportunity process, including pricing decisions and gross profit adjustments
- Set and control country targets for teams and individuals while ensuring alignment with overall goals
- Develop and manage regional team leadership as well as grow the teams according to market growth
- Oversee commercial development at the country level, ensuring sales performance management and adherence to sales processes
What you bring
- Extensive experience in leading, developing and building a solid structure of cross-functional teams as well as regional management
- Strong commercial capabilities paired with strategic thinking and the ability to derive actions from overall missions
- Track of record in building functional and scalable processes to drive business growth
- In-depth knowledge of the Italian market in freight forwarding
- Best-in-class customer success and customer retention practices
- Hands-on approach, a pragmatic way of thinking and data-driven mindset
- Very good communication skills to drive and advocate Forto’s culture and business internally within the teams and externally in the market and with stakeholders by taking the role as ambassador
- Strong sense of collaboration within leadership teams and functional leaders
- Fluent Italian language skills and very good English language skills
Forto is an internationally growing company
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Team:
- At our core, we are in love with progress and cannot cope with the standstill.
- We are constantly striving for ways to be even better tomorrow. We are facilitators, we are explorers, we are visionaries.
- Forto provides a sense of belonging, where everyone has equal access to opportunities, career advancement and recognition. It stands for a workplace where people from all walks of life, with diverse perspectives and experiences can do their best work, while being their authentic selves. That’s why we encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ages, races, religions, and abilities to apply for our opportunities!
Work Life:
- Experience a company culture where we work on eye level and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring is on our daily agenda.
- We love our work and tackling business challenges but also believe in the importance of having a healthy balance with our personal life. That's why we appreciate a flexible work setup that fits around family, friends, and physical health.
- We have the freedom to work in a hybrid setup.
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