Senior Product Manager

sennder is a European digital freight forwarder looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Business Solutions Team. The role is based out of the Amsterdam office and will report to our Senior Manager Carrier Marketplace. Do you want to help us shape the future of the logistics industry?

We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives innovation and we offer an international and friendly work environment with an energetic company culture. Just be yourself and maybe you’ll bring something valuable to the role we didn't initially think of.

If you’re passionate about taking yourself, sennder, and the logistics industry to the next level, curious, and driven by solving puzzles and influencing how we reach our business goals, then you might be who we’re looking for. What others may consider uncertainty, you see as an opportunity to learn and be proactive, while being a team player and understanding how your personal development intersects with the company’s growth.

As a Senior Product Manager you will play a critical role in driving the development and performance of our core brokerage products and the user-experiences that they support.  You will be working within one of our Business Solution Teams, each of these teams are responsible for a specific part of our customer value proposition, they obsess about how to improve the customer experience and in turn the engagement and performance of those customers.  These teams work on the basis of ‘single-threaded-ownership’ and are empowered to define and prioritise the initiatives that will best deliver the objectives and key results of that team.

As a Senior Product Manager in the Carrier Marketplace Business Solution Team you will play a key role in the overall success of the team. The Carrier Marketplace team’s mission is to “find the best truck for every load at the right price”. You will be responsible for the strategy and development of technology and tools that connect loads from shippers and carriers via Octopus, our internal TMS (Transport management system). In other words, your main responsibility is to accelerate and/or automate the time required to assign loads to carriers and also improve the assignment tool used by our operational teams to match shipper’s loads with the best carrier. The role is based in our Amsterdam HQ office. You will work in close partnership with other central teams, and also with sennder’s regional carrier and operational teams. You will report to the Senior Manager, Carrier Marketplace.

sennder is Europe’s digital freight forwarder at the intersection of where technology meets logistics. Through our proprietary transportation operating system, built by our in-house tech teams, we not only connect shippers to our fleet of thousands of trucks, but also improve how they move products in sustainable, cost-efficient, and transparent ways - making the logistics industry fit for the future. In a traditional industry, we’re growing and moving fast to digitally automate all road logistics processes.
You can be part of one of Europe’s latest growth stories as we fast-forward road logistics into digitalization.
Get to know us, our culture, green business, funding history, and more on our blog here.

In this role you will:

• Report to the Carrier Marketplace Business Solution Team Manager and be responsible for defining and prioritising the features of your team’s product area
• Be the key ‘bridge’ person between the business team and engineering, you will build and maintain a strong relationship with our Engineering Managers and the relevant leaders in our tech organisation
• Put data and metrics at the heart of the team’s decision-making processes and how it communicates with the wider business
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of your customers and obsess about how it can be improved
• Collaborate effectively with other product managers and business solution teams

 Preferably you are:

• Able to show solid professional experience in a Product Management role with a history of success working with senior engineers and development teams
• Experienced in defining and delivering customer-impacting products and product features in a matrix environment
• Analytical and data-based in your approach to find and prioritise the most impactful developments to the customer-experience 
• Able to define and refine the long-term strategic vision for your product area whilst delivering incremental value through optimisation
• A great communicator and collaborator, able to translate complex technical solutions into simple language that all of your stakeholders can understand and work to
• Experienced in agile work environments and able to bring that mindset to your work and collaborations
• Experienced in working in high-growth and rapidly scaling environments and overcoming the challenges that these bring
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 What you can expect:

• An industry-leading platform
• Direct and close collaboration with key business and engineering leaders
• A high degree of autonomy, accountability, and trust
• A highly-motivated and international team of 900+ people from 40+ nationalities across 7 offices
• Performance-driven compensation package: fixed salary, variable bonus, and equity
• A structured promotion process, providing everyone with fair and transparent career growth.
• Learning and development opportunities on the job and through conversations with your manager.
• Various opportunities to connect with colleagues, formally and informally, digitally or in person (when allowed), through regular team events, company get-togethers, and partnership events with other companies and local organizers.
• When in office: unlimited snacks, drinks, and fruits.
• Compliance with COVID-19 restrictions when required with remote interviews, onboarding, and working

At sennder we want to maximize the individual’s potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams. Learn more on our career site. 

Please send your application in English and help us reduce negative unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV. We only want to know the merits on which you’d be great for this role.

If you have any questions or problems please reach out to us ta@sennder.com. We do not accept applications via email. 

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