International Logistics Leader

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About Ingersoll Rand

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.

What You Will Own

• 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

You will 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.

Key Competencies

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.

Who You Are

• 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

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

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.

Ingersoll Rand is committed to equal employment opportunity.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.