The transport industry as a whole is changing, both globally and domestically. So what’s a transport company to do? Construct the foundation of their future on digitalization, low carbon, and driving with advanced fuels.

Our Visibility team discovered how to merge quarterly OKRs with detailed research on improving teams’ agile posture. Brian Graham, engineering manager, and Dan Grindrod, senior agile coach & delivery lead, walk us through this how-to guide on coaching your team through personal growth while continuously shipping valuable products.

Nicolas Gautier has worked as a sennder machine learning engineer since February 2020. In this article, he recounts why we chose GitLab to build our data science pipelines and gives some insight into the decision-making process.

Thomas Pitou is a senior product designer who leads the design team in Paris. In this article, he explains how the product team uses Miro as a tool to keep a collaborative mindset while working remotely.

Ana-Maria Ghinita is a senior product designer who has worked at sennder since June 2019 and leads our design community and internal enterprise project. In this blog post, she walks us through how the team refactored the user interface and experience of one of our most important large data tables used internally by our operations team.

As part of the five-person team that set up sennder’s Polish operations in 2019, Kamila has played a pivotal role in the growth of our presence in the Polish market. We wanted to hear more about how she got into logistics and what it’s like working in such a high growth environment.

As Chief Growth Officer, I focus on expansion, helping to grow the business into new markets. So far, I’ve opened the offices in Spain, Poland and have been supporting the Riga office growth in Latvia. Now that we've established these offices, I will be looking for new markets and leave the global teams to scale up the existing ones. I will of course, be on hand to support, sharing my insight into sustainably scaling a business.

My title is Head of Green Revenue and I think that these two words really show what this concept means - green means doing something good: reducing emissions. The second part “revenue” means business. At sennder, we provide real business solutions to our clients. Our clients want to reduce their emissions from transport and that is exactly what we're providing.

Nearly every parcel delivered in Europe will have seen the Netherlands on its way. The physical presence here will support sennder’s ambitious continuous growth plans and talent attraction initiatives. Thomas Christenson of Uber Freight Europe is bringing his expertise, best practices, and years of experience in the tech and freight sectors to his new role as sennder’s Chief Operating Officer.

Since the beginning of March 2020, in line with the global COVID-19 outbreak, the obligation for German companies to file for insolvency has been suspended until the end of September. Many small and medium-sized transport companies often operate with long payment terms and with the risk of customer defaults, so cutting payment times and providing reliable payouts is an attractive proposition.

Having joined sennder 6 months ago, Dirk started his role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) during a very different time. Since joining, it has been an eventful few months. Covid-19 has become the ‘new normal’, sweeping across the globe and shutting down Europe - amongst other continents - for almost four months.

At sennder, our culture is shaped by principles that have been part of our founding mindset enabling us to distinguish ourselves from others: deep customer orientation, data-driven solutions, entrepreneurial thinking, team spirit and a constant strive to learn and push forward. Five years later, our ever-growing team still lives and breathes these values, which have also played a crucial role in what we like to call sennder spirit.