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Sales Ocean Freight Sales Agent, Petrochemicals & Polymers Export

Job in Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77246, USA
Listing for: Skypace
Commission-based only position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • Sales
    Supply Chain & Logistics, Operations Management
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 150000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Ocean Freight Sales Agent, Petrochemicals & Polymers Export

If you broker ocean exports for Gulf Coast producers of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyacetals, synthetic rubber, or other resin and chemical products, this role places your existing book within an operating environment that respects the scale and rhythm of petrochemical exports.

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.

How the operation runs

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.

Why this role exists

Gulf Coast petrochemical export is a strategic export segment of the United States, polymers in primary forms, synthetic rubber, organic and inorganic chemical compounds, moving through Houston into Brazil, Belgium, China, India, and other major industrial destinations. The book that supports a commission‑only agent in this segment is built across years of producer relationships, off‑take negotiation discipline, and operational fluency in carrier allocation during periods of capacity tightness.

Skypace runs a dedicated commission‑only track for the independent agent who already operates inside that segment and benefits from negotiated carrier allocation, transparent pricing, and operational support across each shipment.

What the role holds

The role manages an independent portfolio of Gulf Coast petrochemical and polymer export accounts. Pricing and booking authority live with the agent. Quotes are issued in conversation with the producer or trading house, peak surcharge, hazmat handling fee where applicable, port congestion, inland rail or drayage component, all surfaced at quote stage. The number stands on the invoice.

Carrier allocation planning runs alongside the operations team. MQC commitments are documented in advance, so allocation holds when shipping schedules tighten. The role represents Skypace’s protection…

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