Vice President, Enterprise Solutions

About Ascent

Ascent Global Logistics, headquartered in Belleville, Michigan, is a leading global provider of expedited, time-critical logistics solutions and other direct transportation services. The company connects customers to its extensive carrier network, internal ground fleet and airline via its proprietary, digital PEAK freight marketplace, which provides robust carrier capacity and transparent pricing, backed by 24/7/365 logistics experts. Ascent’s offerings include air charter and ground expedited solutions as well as truckload, less-than-truckload, global forwarding, brokerage, and managed transportation services. The experienced Ascent team solves customers’ most challenging logistics needs by providing industry-leading service and top-tier satisfaction.

Our Guiding Principles

At the core of Ascent's culture is a strong commitment to excellence, driven by the passion and dedication of every team member. We're equally dedicated to going above and beyond for our customers, ensuring this commitment extends beyond our team and brings exceptional value to those we serve. We aim for perfect execution in everything we do and ‘play hard’ by creating an environment where tasks are performed with a can-do attitude from start to finish. We ‘play smart’ by delivering on our commitments in an honest, fair and ethical manner. We treat every person with whom we interface with the utmost dignity and respect. We understand that our teammates are our most valuable assets, so we ‘play together’ by making every effort to provide a professional and enjoyable experience, enabling careers to flourish and personal growth to be achieved.

What You’ll Do

The VP of Enterprise Solutions is a key leadership role that provides strategic and operational value by bridging the gap between commercial strategy, operational execution, and technology-driven customer solutions. This role ensures that customer proposals, solution designs, and pricing models are both operationally feasible and financially optimized, enhancing win rates and profitability. This role will also lead the Business Implementation Team and efforts and will create a strong alignment between pre-sales solution design and post-award execution, ensuring a seamless transition from concept to delivery. This synergy improves implementation efficiency, reduces start-up risks, accelerates time to revenue, and strengthens customer confidence through consistent, end-to-end accountability for solution performance

• End-to-End Solution Design: Lead the development of On Demand, time-critical solutions that combine air, ocean, and ground services, ensuring operational feasibility, scalability, and alignment with customer supply chain objectives.
• Commercial & Tender Support: Partner with Business Development and KAM to design customer-specific logistics strategies, build competitive cost models, and support global RFQ and tender responses with optimized network and pricing solutions.
• Profitability & Cost Governance: Work with Finance and Procurement to validate cost assumptions, assess profitability, and ensure margin protection through data-driven rate modeling and lane optimization.
• Implementation Leadership: Oversee the Business Implementation Team to manage post-award transition and onboarding of new global accounts—coordinating project timelines, SOP development, IT integration, KPI setup, and operational go-live readiness.
• Operational & Commercial Synergy: Serve as the bridge between Business Development, Operations, and Product Management to ensure new business solutions are executable across all transport modes and compliant with carrier, customs, and trade requirements.
• Standardization & Best Practices: Establish global frameworks, templates, and methodologies for solution design, implementation, and governance to drive consistency, speed, and quality across regions.
• Technology & Digital Integration: Embed visibility platforms, automation tools, and analytics into solution design, leveraging digital freight management systems to enhance customer transparency and control.
• Customer Innovation: Act as a strategic advisor to customers, identifying opportunities for supply chain optimization, carbon footprint reduction, and network redesign using data insights and continuous improvement processes.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Build, coach, and develop a global team of solution engineers and implementation managers to strengthen technical, commercial, and analytical capabilities.
• Continuous Improvement & Feedback Loop: Review post-implementation performance, gather lessons learned, and drive corrective actions to enhance future solution and implementation quality.

What You’ll Bring

• A bachelor’s degree or 10 years of industry and at least 5 years of management experience.
• Proven experience in engineering management and customer-facing roles.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management certification is a plus.
• In-depth technical knowledge in relevant engineering domains.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Ascent’s Competitive Benefits

• 401(k) and employer matching

• Life Insurance

• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

• Short- & Long-Term Disability

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Paid Parental Leave

• Employee Wellness Program

• Paid Holidays

• Employee Recognition Programs

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Overtime, Differential & Bonus Pay