Job Description
Air Logistics Sales Representative (Colombo)

It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

How you create impact

  • Support business development and diversification using strong product and trade knowledge.
  • Lead and monitor sales activities to achieve growth targets.
  • Identify and nurture qualified prospects through the sales pipeline.
  • Review sales leads and customer portfolios with key stakeholders.
  • Conduct market and pricing research, ensuring alignment with the pricing team.
  • Provide customer feedback to CCL and support issue resolution.
  • Lead onboarding and implementation of new customers, ensuring SOPs are updated for CCL handover.
  • Maintain accurate customer information in internal systems.
  • Drive customer engagement, satisfaction, retention, and reactivation in collaboration with CCL.

What we would like you to bring

  • This is a 100% hunter role, focused solely on acquiring new business within Air freight business.
  • Proven experience in sales or business development,  within Air freight.
  • Strong product/trade knowledge and ability to identify commercial opportunities.
  • Solid prospecting skills with ability to build and convert a sales pipeline.
  • Strong market awareness, including pricing and competitive analysis.
  • Effective communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to lead customer onboarding and ensure smooth operational handover.
  • Self-motivated, result-driven, and comfortable working independently.

What's in it for you

As an employer, Kuehne+Nagel stands for equal opportunity and we are committed to diversity in our teams with regards to people with disabilities. We believe that you can make a valuable contribution to Kuehne+Nagel and look forward to receiving your application. 

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.