Air Freight Gateway Manager
Hebron, KYFull-time$106–141K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Air Freight Gateway Manager leads gateway performance and execution across a major gateway, country network, or assigned regional scope. The role coordinates cargo flow, handovers, supplier performance, and cross-node issues while improving operational milestones and preparing for peak periods and disruptions. It also provides senior leadership visibility into risks and capacity constraints and guides direct reports, customers, and stakeholders on relevant processes.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Experience Required
6 - 8 years
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma/G.E.D.
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Job Title: Air Freight Gateway Manager
Job Location: Hebron, Kentucky
DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) is the world leader in air freight services and one of the leading providers of ocean freight services. Around 30,000 employees work to ensure we transport our customers of shipments by air or sea. DGF's logistics solutions span the entire supply chain, from the factory to the shop floor. This also includes special transport-related services. Visit our career site on the web at https://www.logistics.dhl/us-en/home/careers.html
Job Purpose
Execute and/or coordinate Air Freight Gateway plans, processes, and activities to ensure effective, efficient and timely delivery of operational outcomes in line with business needs and objectives, relevant standards and procedures, Group guidelines and policies, and applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. This includes leading implementation of medium-term functional strategy and orchestrate complex outcomes for gateway execution, physical cargo flow, build-up and break-down discipline, handover quality, ULD/consol execution, and node performance.
Differentiator
Ensure policies, practices and procedures are understood and followed by direct reports, customers and stakeholders; setting goals and objectives for team members for achievement of operational results; Problems faced may be difficult but typically are not complex.
Key Responsibilities
Lead gateway performance across a major gateway, country network, or assigned regional gateway scope
Translate gateway performance patterns into structural actions on staffing, handoffs, process controls, supplier performance, or escalation discipline
Ensure improvement in milestone completeness/timeliness, missed uplift reduction, handover quality, dwell reduction, and exception closure
Coordinate complex cross node issues with SCM, Network, Charters, RDM, Customer Operations, stations and GSC
Lead readiness for peak, disruption, contingency plans, and service-critical flows
Provide senior leadership visibility on gateway risk, capacity constraints, and structural execution blockers
Stakeholders
Understand the interests and concerns of Air Freight leadership at relevant country, regional, or global level
Pricing, Growth, Products & Services, Customer Operations/Control Tower, RDM/Network, SCM, Gateways, Process Excellence, Operational Accounting, Solution Delivery/IT, GSC where applicable
External suppliers such as airlines, charter operators, handling partners, trucking/warehouse providers, and customer stakeholders where role scope requires, and advise direct reports, customers, and key stakeholders on relevant processes and requirements
Build strong, trusting relationships with DHL managers and maintain extensive contact with other specialist departments
Cooperate with and coordinate approved third parties where applicable to support effective delivery and stakeholder alignment
Skills / Requirements
Extensive knowledge of Air Freight product, Gateway, & Warehouse Operations
Minimum 6 years Air Freight / Warehouse operations experience with minimum of 2 years supervisory experience required
Experience working in a Unionized environment a plus
CargoWise software experience a plus
DG/Hazmat experience a plus
Exceptional Communication and Presentation skills, strong PowerPoint experience preferred
Strong Leadership & Management skills, ability to coach and develop staff (succession planning)
Strong business acumen and data mining/analytical skills
Knowledge of the OAG & TACT rules and Export Regulations
Bachelor Degree preferred
Pay Range: $105,682.50 - $140,910.00+ (Based on Experience)
Benefits (All Non-Union Employees)
Compensation: Competitive base salary plus role dependent performance-based incentives.
401(k) Match: $1-for-$1 match up to 4% quarterly + 2% annual base contribution.
Stock Purchase Plan: Ability to purchase Deutsche Post AG shares at a discounted rate.
Medical: Comprehensive plans covering preventive care, inpatient/outpatient services, and prescriptions.
Vision: Optional coverage for exams, frames, and contacts.
Dental: Optional coverage for preventive, basic, and major services.
Paid Time Off: 7 major holidays, 8 floating holidays, and accrued vacation/sick days.
Why Join DHL Global Forwarding?
At DHL Global Forwarding, we invest in our employees' growth, providing training, guidance, and career advancement opportunities. We believe in building careers, not just jobs, and empowering our team to develop skills and achieve long-term success.
Be part of DHL Group, the world's leading logistics provider, operating in 220+ countries. DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) is a global leader in air and ocean freight, with 30,000+ employees ensuring seamless transport and supply chain solutions. Explore careers with us: DHL Careers.
Equal Opportunity Employer
DHL Global Forwarding is committed to equal employment opportunities, evaluating all qualified applicants without regard to r ace, color, r eligion, s ex, s exual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
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Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
AV-390414
How this job compares
Set against the 8,368 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$106–141K/yr
- Kentucky median$80–108K/yr79 salary ranges
- US median$84–119K/yr4,823 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $123K, is 33% above the Kentucky median midpoint ($93K) — in the middle half of Operations Manager salary ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 161 open Operations Manager jobs in Kentucky and 8,368 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Amazon12 open
- Compass Group, North America10 open
- Crane Worldwide Logistics6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 6,305 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,951 of the 8,368 open Operations Manager jobs (35%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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