Ocean Freight Senior Sales Manager, Industrial Chemicals Import

Ocean Freight Senior Sales Manager, Industrial Chemicals Import

About Skypace

Skypace serves shippers whose freight programs depend on consistent execution across repeated ocean movements, multiple service providers, and constant commercial pressure on cost, timing, and space allocation. For these companies, performance is shaped by how systematically pricing, allocation, and milestone visibility move alongside the shipment itself.

Skypace demonstrates a global operating environment where this coordination is built into the workflow as a structural standard. Shippers, carriers, drayage providers, and internal teams operate through a shared data structure that accumulates context, supports timely decisions, and preserves the operational record across the shipment lifecycle.

Today, this model supports more than 150 customers across 18 countries through direct integrations with top 10 ocean carriers, among them MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO, and Hapag‑Lloyd. The operating environment optimizes shipper performance across freight cost, communication discipline, error reduction, booking speed, and visibility into how each participating party performs against commitment.

Operational data accumulates as a clean, structured record that supports continuous process improvement today and becomes foundational as supply chains integrate AI‑driven decision agents into planning, execution, and exception handling.

Skypace operates on a proactive monitoring discipline. Milestones are tracked through live data across the entire shipment ecosystem. Deviations in schedule, cost, or capacity surface within the operating environment, and the next operational action is initiated by Skypace before the client encounters the problem.

The instant‑quote and online booking engine compresses commercial response time from days to minutes. Carrier MQC commitments hold during peak season, which is the period when allocation decides whether a shipper's seasonal cycle preserves its margin or absorbs unplanned cost.

The quote engine surfaces every accessorial at the quote stage, including peak surcharges, GRI, port congestion fees, drayage components, and specialty equipment charges where applicable. The number the client sees at quote stands on the invoice. Pricing integrity is treated as a commercial discipline, not a service feature.

This role leads senior commercial coverage of Skypace's industrial chemicals import portfolio out of Houston, across organic chemicals, inorganic compounds, miscellaneous chemical products, organo‑inorganic and organo‑sulphur compounds, and chemical intermediates feeding Gulf Coast and Southeast manufacturing. Senior coverage at Skypace combines portfolio activation, retention discipline, and operational influence over how Skypace handles complex regulatory documentation, hazmat classification, and producer claims defense.

The role manages a transitioning portfolio with full Year 1 sunset rate on every originated account. Sunset rates continue across Year 2 and Year 3+ even when day‑to‑day account management transfers to operations. A 90‑day transition plan is co‑designed before signing, accounts mapped by chemical category, origin market, regulatory complexity, and required operational cadence.

Beyond portfolio retention, the role leads strategic chemical‑importer account development across the Gulf Coast and Southeast manufacturing base. Cross‑functional input on platform development is part of the work, client‑facing observations on customs handling, hazmat documentation, and certificate‑of‑analysis workflow reach the operations team within the same week.

Mentorship of one or two junior sales representatives typically begins month nine to twelve, once the senior's own portfolio is established. The role represents Skypace's protection of senior commercial interests through transparent attribution, locked sunset rates, and freight audit defense across the lifecycle of every originated relationship.

You bring 7+ years of ocean freight sales experience at one or more forwarders, NVOCCs, or 3PLs with established Houston…