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Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following a $200M Series B at a $1.4B valuation, the company is expanding its industrial footprint across France, Morocco, the United States, and future production locations.
You will build and lead the global logistics function supporting this expansion. The role owns the movement of finished products from shipment readiness through customer delivery, including international transport, customs clearance, dangerous goods handling, export-control execution, routing, forwarder management, and delivery performance.
This is a global leadership role with strong operational responsibility and close interfaces with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Legal, Programme teams, and international customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and manage a compliant, scalable, operationally effective global logistics system
- Own customer delivery from finished product release through proof of delivery, including transport planning, Incoterms, shipment documentation, customs clearance, and delivery visibility
- Define and manage the global network of freight forwarders, carriers, and customs brokers
- Ensure export-control, dangerous-goods, and customs requirements are integrated early into the delivery process, working closely with Legal, Supply Chain, and Production to anticipate licence requirements, routing constraints, and transport risks
- Establish common logistics standards, processes, and KPIs across all production locations
- Deploy the logistics system into new factories and countries as the company expands
- Build the team and external partner network required to improve delivery reliability, lead time, and logistics cost
- Manage customer delivery and international transport, customs and trade operations, export-control execution, dangerous-goods logistics, forwarder/carrier/broker management, global routing and logistics network design, shipment compliance and release, and logistics performance and cost management
Requirements:
- Experienced international logistics leader comfortable operating in a fast-growing, highly regulated industrial environment
- Significant experience in international logistics, preferably in defence or another highly regulated industrial environment, with strong knowledge of customs, import/export processes, international freight, Incoterms, and shipment documentation
- Experience with dangerous goods, regulated shipments, and licence-dependent export processes
- Experience managing freight forwarders, carriers, and customs brokers
- Strong operational judgement and ability to make clear decisions under delivery pressure while maintaining compliance
- Experience building or scaling logistics processes across several countries or production locations (strong advantage)
- Ability to work across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Legal, and customer-facing teams and build processes that remain practical as the organisation grows
- Combines strong compliance discipline with a pragmatic operational mindset
- Anticipates problems before they affect customer delivery, creates clear ownership, and is comfortable building structures where processes are still evolving
- Able to distinguish between what is legally required, what is operationally necessary, and what can be simplified while creating a scalable global logistics organisation
