Full-Time

Partnerships & Strategic Alliances Director

Saas Logistics

Posted on 11/21/2025

Raft

Raft

51-200 employees

Automates freight forwarding lifecycle management

No salary listed

London, UK

In Person

Category
Operations & Logistics (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Marketing
Requirements
  • Extensive commercial experience (10+ years preferred) in Partnerships, Alliances, or Enterprise Sales, ideally within the B2B Software as a Service or Consulting sectors.
  • A proven track record of successfully building and managing alliances with Global and Regional System Integrators (GSI/RSI), particularly within the North American and EMEA territories.
  • An established professional network within the North America and EMEA partner ecosystem that can be immediately leveraged to build trust and accelerate go-to-market initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in developing channel strategies, commercial planning, and executing strategic alliances that drive predictable, consistent business growth.
  • Exceptional skills in working cross-functionally and collaboratively, demonstrating the ability to mobilize internal and external teams to achieve long-term success and market differentiation.
Responsibilities
  • Develop, manage, and expand partnerships specifically with Global (GSI) and Regional System Integrators (RSI) across the North America and EMEA market to achieve substantial revenue goals for Raft.
  • Create and deploy robust, data-driven Go-to-Market strategic plans, channel strategies, and commercial agreements designed to cultivate partnerships that consistently drive joint business growth.
  • Own the partnership pipeline, proactively building, managing, and driving revenue-generating activities with partners for our next-generation AI platform.
  • Build lasting, high-trust relationships with key partner stakeholders at all levels, acting as the primary commercial and strategic liaison.
  • Ensure partner efforts are seamlessly integrated across internal teams, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Consulting Services, to enrich service offerings and elevate customer outcomes.

Raft.ai provides an automated platform for the freight forwarding industry that helps forwarders manage the entire shipment lifecycle. It integrates with existing Transportation Management Systems (TMS) to act as a central hub for data processing, transactions, approvals, and workflows, improving communication among finance, customs, operations, sales, and customers. The platform automates tasks such as commercial invoices, packing lists, and transport documents, supporting customs compliance and faster shipments. Unlike solutions that operate in isolation, Raft.ai focuses on seamless TMS integration and end-to-end process automation to give forwarders full transparency and control over every freight move. Its goal is to help freight forwarders deliver more value to their customers by increasing operational efficiency and enhancing customer experience through better collaboration and real-time visibility.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$48.1M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Achieved 90% faster task turnaround and $150M+ cumulative savings for customers.
  • $60M growth investment from Washington Harbour Partners funds AI expansion and ecosystem collaboration.
  • PayCargo partnership extends AI payment functionality beyond core shipment automation workflows.

What critics are saying

  • Cargobase's agentOS platform offers superior end-to-end automation with direct carrier integration.
  • Flexport bundles platform services with forwarding, undercutting Raft's SaaS pricing through vertical integration.
  • US Customs mandates real-time AI-verified blockchain declarations by 2027, requiring $20M+ platform overhaul.

What makes Raft unique

  • Processes 5M+ shipments annually with 5B labeled data points across 100M verified documents.
  • Integrates deeply with TMS/ERP/CRM systems; human-in-the-loop AI handles exceptions and validation.
  • Serves 50+ leading freight forwarders including 40% of AA's Top 25 Global list.

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ExecutiveBiz
Apr 11th, 2024
Raft Receives $60M Growth Investment From Washington Harbour Partners; Shubhi Mishra Quoted

Raft receives $60M growth investment from washington harbour partners; shubhi mishra quoted.

FinSMEs
Jul 11th, 2023
Raft Raises $30M In Series B Funding

Raft, a London, UK-based provider of an intelligent logistics platform, raised $30M in Series B funding.The round was led by Eight Roads with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Episode 1, and Dynamo Ventures, as well as Moguntia Capital. The company intends to use the funds to increase development and deployment of its core automation products, improve data collaboration across the ecosystem, and its business reach.Founded in 2017 and led by CEO James Coombes, Raft is a provider of an intelligent logistics platform that empowers freight forwarders and customs brokers to automate shipment execution and collaborate effectively with their shipper end-customers. Working across the lifecycle, from quotations to customs to finance, it embeds AI into workflows and standardizes diverse data inputs—whether email content, EDI, or API—in order to drive lower-touch shipment execution. Customers include 40% of the AA’s Top 25 Global Freight Forwarders List, as well as global customers like EMO Trans, OIA Global, The Scarbrough Group, NNR Global Logistics, and Navia Freight.  FinSMEs11/07/2023

Techz Lab
Jul 11th, 2023
Raft, which serves freight forwarders, closes $30m Series B led by Eight Roads VC – tech news – inside

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PYMNTS
Feb 3rd, 2023
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PYMNTS
Jan 30th, 2023
Fourkites And Cargonerds Add Real-Time Tracking To Digital Freight Platform

FourKites and Cargonerds have partnered to help freight forwarders and shippers track global shipments in real time. The new collaboration adds FourKites’ real-time supply chain visibility capabilities to Cargonerds’ digital freight platform for quoting, booking, tracking and reporting, the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 30) press release. “[FourKites’] end-to-end solution enables us to give our customers the most accurate ETAs (estimated time of arrivals) and greater network collaboration,” Cargonerds Founder Conrad Franchi said in the release. “Having the right data at the right time to identify precisely what can be done is the only path to proactively mitigating issues while reducing costs and fees.”

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