ESL offers a unique opportunity to develop our capacity or cargo flow function. We are a regionally focused agile shipping line with the ambition to be the best carrier in our chosen markets. We offer a dynamic environment with an ability to make an impact – you will have a line of sight between your day-to-day work and USD impact to the organization. We are also building a diverse team across nationalities, gender and experience and will empower this team to grow our business to be the best-in-class regional carrier. We offer you an opportunity to shape our culture and be part of a fun, collaborative and vibrant team!
Job Responsibilities
- Monitoring bookings and optimizing space by adjusting allocation between load and discharge ports to improve utilization and trade performance.
- Adjusting cargo loading, including rolling and re-routing, through close collaboration with area stakeholders.
- Liaising with the product analyst, trade, and marketing team to steer cargo to achieve maximum revenue on available capacity.
- Seeking high utilization across all services through forecast management and downfall analysis.
- Planning for seasonality changes with stowage planners and commercial teams.
- Supporting the execution of the empty flow plan in collaboration with the equipment team.
- Reducing waste, such as re-nominations and longstanding at ports, through timely planning and execution.
- Working closely with Marine Operations to ensure schedule reliability and handle contingencies like port omissions, swaps, schedule delays, and cargo overflows.
- Contributing ideas to improve processes within the team and across departments.
- Analyzing service performance and representing capacity with inputs for service improvement.
- Establishing good working relationships with partners and managing the VSA/SWAP/SCA deals.
- Preparing related reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- 2-3 years’ experience in the shipping industry ideally having been in roles in capacity/cargo flow, commercial and/or trade.
- A strong collaborator who can drive information sharing and a change mindset across our own agencies and partners.
- Enjoys problem solving and the unpredictable challenges in shipping – ranging from COVID related disruptions or Red Sea crises.
- Data savvy – loves to work with numbers and can use them to tell a story; experience with databases, data visualization tools, programming or similar are a plus!
