Summary
CEVA Logistics, part of the CMA CGM Group, is hiring a Customer Operations Support Manager in Dubai. The role leads a customer service team, manages key-account requirements, supports pricing and supplier negotiations, and resolves customer issues and escalations. The position also oversees onboarding of new business and traffic, team training, workload planning, and customer-focused process improvement. Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in logistics or a related field and 3–4 years of logistics and warehouse management experience in freight forwarding, including knowledge of UAE customs requirements. Applications close on 22 October 2026.
The posting
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CEVA Logistics provides global supply chain solutions to connect people, products and providers all around the world. Present in 170 countries and with more than 110,000 employees spread over 1,500 sites, we are well on our way to achieving our vision: to be a Top 5 global 3PL.
We believe that our employees are the key to our success. We want to engage and empower our diverse, global team to co-create value with our customers through our solutions in contract logistics and air, ocean, ground, and finished vehicle transport. That is why CEVA Logistics offers a dynamic and exceptional work environment that fosters personal growth, innovation, and continuous improvement.
At CEVA Logistics, we Rise in Motion. Your career is always on the move, growing as fast and as far as your ambition takes you. Join a global team of nearly 200 nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging new paths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world. The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. This is more than a job. It’s a journey on which you rise.
Closing Date: 22 October 2026
Purpose of the Job
- Primarily involves communicating with customers either via phone, email or face-to-face plus overseeing a team of Customer Service agents.
- Ensure understanding on the company’s values and must act in a professional manner, using language that aligns with that of the company.
- Involves responsibility for providing a productive and motivating working
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the supervision of direct reports within the team
- Validate Customer Profile in coordination with the Pricing and Sales team respectively
- Secure correct implementation of new traffics
- Handle logistic requirements of major key accounts
- Sourcing and negotiating pricing with suppliers, carriers and network partners and provide customized quotations to clients
- Resolve conflicts and provide pro-active solutions to problems to ensure excellent service to clients
- Follow through on all critical inter-departmental escalations to increase customer retention
- Communicating job expectations, planning, and monitoring workload among the team
- Training all new recruits joining the team on the job processes and company policies
- Successful account retention through extensive follow up and personalized visits to clients
- Conducts regularly scheduled departmental meetings and customer service team meetings as necessary to discuss issues, present informational updates, introduce new policies, conduct training, and address specific needs
- Develop and implement effective procedures and policies those are customer focused
- Provide cross functional support to Projects and operations team as and when required
- Comply and meet with all QHSE, compliance and Ethics requirements
Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics or relevant field
Experience & Knowledge
- 3 - 4 years’ experience working in Logistics & Warehouse management in the freight-forwarding industry.
- Knowledge of import/export laws and regulations and custom clearance compliance (specifically, UAE Customs requirements
Special Skills
- Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to supervise, coach, and develop team members.
- Excellent customer service and relationship management skills.
- Advanced problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities.
- Strong negotiation and commercial acumen when dealing with suppliers, carriers, and service providers.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills across Sales, Pricing, Operations, and external customers.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform under pressure in a fast-paced logistics environment.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills with attention to detail.
- Project coordination and implementation skills for new business and traffic onboarding.
- Presentation and training skills to facilitate team development and customer engagements.
- Process improvement and change management capabilities.
Preferred Competencies
- Customer-centric mindset.
- Results-oriented approach.
- Strong business partnering skills.
- High level of accountability and ownership.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions.
- Strategic thinking with operational execution capabilities.
As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation.
Please note: Legitimate CEVA Logistics recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn or via an official company email address: [email protected]. We recommend that you do not respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers from people with whom you are unfamiliar.