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Senior Product Manager (f/m/d)

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 to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless, and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing our moonshot goal of achieving climate-neutral operations by 2025.
 

In our Product department we solve the biggest challenge of global logistics and supply chain management: reducing the industry's high complexity with a digital and sustainable approach. We set a clear mission to make shipping products as easy as sending emails and follow a collaborative process for a superior customer experience. We design tech-enabled solutions and operations to make innovative, sustainable logistics accessible to everyone.

Your role

As a Senior Product Manager for Capacity Planning and Allocation Management, you will conceptualize, build, launch, and iterate on a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for maximizing customer satisfaction and Forto revenue by building the products and features that non-vessel operating common carriers need to monetize their logistics services. You will be working with a wide range of logistics industry experts across trade, operations, allocation, quotation, and invoicing functions.

You will

  • Setting an inspiring vision, strategy, and success metrics for your product
  • Being ultimately responsible for making that product valuable and viable
  • Creating alignment on your KPIs, roadmap, and vision within your team and throughout the organization
  • Being the expert in knowing who your customer is and what problems you are solving for, always making decisions in favor of the customer
  • Own the roadmap and delivery of a growth-focused product that makes an impact on the bottom line directly.
  • Analyze business and user impact of potential features in a data-driven manner, leveraging analytics tools and your strong analytical skills
  • Understanding the market and competitor landscape in which your product operates
  • Among many other things, you will on any given day, talk to users, develop vision and strategy, clarify technical questions and effort estimates with our in-house engineers, or troubleshoot issues

What you bring 

Must have:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in product management
  • Experience developing products within one or more of the following: Logistics, business, and enterprise software solutions, finance, or a startup in a business-to-business environment
  • Experience driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
  • Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Engineering, UX/UI, Finance, Sales, and Customer Support.

Nice to have:

  • Background in freight forwarding
  • Experience managing day-to-day technical and design direction.
  • Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Experience in building highly scalable platform products
  • Experience at a high-growth company
  • Experience building global products or driving the localization of products
 

Forto is an internationally growing company

Locations
  • Company language: English
  • 17+ offices across Europe & Asia
  • 800+ employees
  • 30+ nationalities represented
  • 2500+ customers

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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.

 

Company Offering:

Sustainability

  • Sustainability Team
  • Emission Offsetting
  • Green Energy
  • Organic Food
  • Paperless Office

Work Setup

  • Inspiring Office Spaces
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Team & Company Events
  • Hybrid Work 

Learning & Development

  • Peer Learning Program
  • Mentorship Program
  • Leadership Training
  • L&D Budget

Onboarding

  • Best Onboarding Program
  • Visa & Relocation Support
  • Remote Onboarding
  • Buddy Program
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