International Logistics Leader

Ingersoll Rand Careers

About The Position

Ingersoll Rand thrives on a culture of innovation and ownership, committed to enhancing the lives of our employees, customers, and the planet. With over 80 renowned brands, our customers rely on our products and services to deliver high-quality flow creation and industrial solutions designed to perform in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our unwavering commitment to ownership enables our employees to cultivate strong customer relationships and solve the industry's most difficult problems. Why This Role Exists Ingersoll Rand spends approximately $250 million annually on freight — across a complex, multi-business-unit footprint spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Until now, that spend has operated without a dedicated Global Logistics function, unified strategy, or shared enterprise standards. That changes now. We are building a world-class Global Logistics function from the ground up — organized around five PODs, each led by a direct report to the Head of Global Logistics. The International Logistics POD is the most complex, highest-risk, and most strategically critical of the five. This role owns $70M+ in international freight spend — Ocean FCL/LCL, heavyweight air, freight forwarding, drayage, and customs brokerage — across all nine Ingersoll Rand business units globally. It sits at the intersection of the company's most acute current risk exposure: tariff volatility, customs compliance complexity, cross-border lane disruption, and an uncontracted spend environment that has left meaningful value on the table. This is not a role for someone looking to manage existing programs. This is a builder role — for a leader who wants to architect a global international logistics model inside a complex industrial organization, deploy AI and digital tools from day one, and leave a visible mark on a $250M spend transformation. The Opportunity The Global Logistics function is at an inflection point. The spend is material. The risk is real. And the opportunity — to build something from scratch, deploy AI from day one, and establish best-in-class international logistics inside a $7.7B industrial company — is significant. This role is for someone who wants to accelerate their trajectory, operate at the leading edge of what modern logistics looks like, and leave a mark on a global transformation that is just getting started.

Requirements

8+ years in international logistics, global freight, or trade and customs — in complex industrial, manufacturing, or multi-business-unit environments
Deep experience across ocean, air freight, forwarding, and customs brokerage
Proven builder — category strategies, commercial frameworks, or operating models developed from scratch, not inherited
Commercially fearless — structured, data-driven, and relentless in pursuit of value
Digitally fluent — uses analytics, benchmarking platforms, and AI tools to outperform peers, not as a future goal but as current practice
Executive presence — ability to influence engineers, operators, and finance leaders across nine business units
High potential, rising leader — hungry, competitive, and ambitious
Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building in environments where the playbook doesn't yet exist
Collaborative operator who thrives in a cross-BU model and understands that enterprise-wide credibility is earned through execution
International Freight & Trade Expertise: Deep functional knowledge of ocean, air, forwarding, customs brokerage, and trade compliance across major global trade lanes. Fluency in Incoterms, broker relationships, and tariff classification fundamentals.
Commercial Acumen: Proven ability to structure and execute competitive RFQs, negotiate complex carrier and forwarder agreements, and drive spend under contract discipline in international freight categories.
Tariff & Compliance Intelligence: Working knowledge of customs strategy, duty optimization, tariff classification, and cross-border regulatory complexity. Experience navigating tariff volatility and translating exposure into actionable financial guidance for business partners.
Digital & AI Fluency: Comfortable deploying analytics tools, rate benchmarking platforms (Xeneta, Freightos, or equivalents), and AI-assisted workflows as standard operating practice — not future aspirations.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate a complex, multi-BU international freight portfolio into a coherent, prioritized category strategy — and execute against it with discipline.
Push Mindset: Proactively delivers intelligence, cost forecasts, and performance transparency to BU partners. Does not wait to be asked. Understands that logistics credibility is built through execution, not titles.
Change Leadership: Experience operating in complex, matrixed organizations — influencing stakeholders across business units, finance, operations, and procurement without direct authority.
Analytical Problem-Solving: Comfort with spend data, scenario modeling, rate benchmarking analysis, and risk-based decision making.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the following is strongly preferred: tariff and trade compliance management, customs broker oversight, heavyweight air freight governance, and international freight RFQ execution.

Responsibilities

Full ownership of $70M+ in international freight spend — Ocean FCL/LCL, heavyweight air, forwarding, drayage, and customs brokerage across all nine Ingersoll Rand business units
Design and execution of a multi-year International Logistics category strategy aligned to the company's $250M freight transformation roadmap
Annual and strategic RFQs across all international freight modes; driving spend under contract and eliminating uncontracted quoting environments
Customs brokerage strategy and compliance oversight across all trade lanes, including tariff intelligence, duty exposure modeling, and proactive communication to BU finance partners
External rate benchmarking to validate incumbent proposals and sharpen commercial strategy
Ownership of the International Logistics balanced scorecard — Service, Quality, Delivery, and Cost/Productivity — with proactive push of performance and market intelligence to BU leadership
Cross-border lane disruption response, contingency planning, and M&A assimilation onto IR carrier and logistics standards
Enterprise KPI contribution — standing up OTD baselines, D&D metrics, and AI-assisted spend visibility for international modes
Operate at the intersection of Procurement, Finance, Operations, and Business Unit leadership — influencing senior leaders across a complex, multi-BU portfolio and setting a new standard for what international logistics looks like at Ingersoll Rand.

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