Product Manager - Shipping Costs

Ovoko is transforming Europe’s €30B+ used car parts market - a massive, fragmented industry still largely offline. We connect 7,000+ scrapyard owners, car parts sellers and dismantlers with millions of buyers through our marketplace, SaaS and logistics platform, making it effortless to trade parts across borders. With over 42 million parts listed, we’ve grown into one of Europe’s fastest-scaling e-commerce companies, but the real opportunity lies ahead, as we build a real category-defining platform worldwide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Ovoko ships across 25+ European countries, through more than a dozen carrier integrations. Every shipping price shown to a buyer, every label approved for generation, every carrier fallback when a provider goes down, every shipping cost forecast Finance plans around - all of it depends on a single system being accurate, fast, and reliable. That system does not fully exist yet in the way it needs to.

That is what the Shipping Costs team is building.

As a Product Manager for Shipping Costs, you will own the cost calculation engine that underpins every pricing decision at Ovoko, the guardrail and carrier selection layer in the live label-generation critical path, the failover re-routing logic that keeps shipments moving when a provider is unavailable, the volume steering mechanism that shapes which carrier options buyers see in the marketplace, and the pricing configuration tool the pricing specialist uses to set what buyers pay. You will also own the shipping cost forecasts and accruals Finance depends on for planning and accounting close.

You will not set prices, negotiate carrier contracts, or decide which carriers Ovoko uses. Those decisions belong to the pricing specialist and Strategic Partnership Managers. Your job is the infrastructure underneath those decisions: a cost number accurate enough to price against confidently, a routing layer reliable enough to be invisible, and forecasting outputs Finance can close the books on.

Your focus areas:

• Cost calculation accuracy - owning Checkout Cost Accuracy Rate and Aggregate Cost Accuracy Rate as the two metrics that determine whether the cost engine can be trusted at the shipment level and the invoice level

• Guardrail and carrier selection - the real-time decisioning layer that approves or blocks a carrier and route before every label is generated, incorporating live carrier performance data

• Failover re-routing - the logic that finds a working alternative carrier automatically when a provider goes down, without human intervention

• Volume steering - the mechanism by which carrier options are ranked and presented to buyers in the marketplace to meet commercial volume commitments

• Pricing tool - the configuration interface the pricing specialist uses to set and publish shipping prices, without engineering involvement for routine changes

• Shipping cost forecasting and accruals - accurate, reconciled cost estimates delivered to Finance on a defined cadence

This is not a feature PM role. This is a cost and decisioning infrastructure role where your outputs directly determine whether the pricing specialist can price with confidence, whether label generation flows without stalls, and whether Finance closes the books on numbers that hold up.