IN GENERAL
ü Role:- Ship Operation and/or Business Development
ü Title:- Assistant Manager or Manager (expected)
REQUIREMENTS
ü Essential
- Either of following experience and skill
² Shipping Industry (minimum 3-5 years)
l Either of following:-
Ø Time Charter Party / Voyage Charter Party / Bill of Lading
Ø Memorandum of Agreement (Sales and Purchase of Vessel)
Ø Shipman / Agency Agreement
² Commodity Trading (minimum 5 years)
l Freighting / Chartering Vessels for dry or liquid cargoes
² Investment or Finance Industry (minimum 5 years)
l Either of following:-
Ø Banking / Financial Services
Ø Real Estate
Ø Any other investments on large scale projects
- Language:-
² English (Native or Business Level, writing/speaking)
- Others:-
² Good leadership, Communication, Sense of teamwork, Perseverance
ü Preferable
² Experience in Ship Owning Company
² Accounting (Basic Accounting in Double-Entry System)
² Finance (Basic Loan Agreements/Derivatives/others)
² Language : Japanese (Native or Business Level, writing/speaking)
DETAILED ROLES/DUTIES
The division which Candidate will belong to are composed of two parts as below. Company will take his/her suitability and wishes into consideration in order to the roles/duties.
ü PART I :- Operations
1. Chasing schedule/itinerary of assigned vessels and being prepared for the necessary events as such loading/bunkering/discharging/dry-docking liaising/negotiating with/against Charterers/Ship Technical Managers or all concerned parties.
2. Collecting Time Charter Hire Revenue, including negotiation against any claims/disputes raised by Charterers, settlement of account payable/receivable and/or etc.
3. Managing/Approving yearly/quarterly/monthly/daily budgets of assigned vessels prepared by Ship Technical Managers and monitoring their activity/financial results of vessels (and instructing/drawing up and carrying out any plans for rectifications/improvement with such managers)
4. Checking if the Voyage Orders or requests given by Charterers on case-by-case basis are in conformity with Time Charter Parties and/or acceptable as Owners in any points of view, including negotiation against Charterers
5. Liaising with underwriters in Japanese Hull & Machinery and/or Protection and Indemnity insurance in case of material accidents and arranging any additional premiums (not limited to but including reporting any incidents to Charterers or all concerned parties, drawing up plans for escaping from them, legal proceedings, settlement/collecting insurance premiums and/or preparing press conferences in case of a serious accident)
6. Visiting vessels to check their condition and maintenance status as Owners for the commercial purposes.
7. Reporting punctually to the HQ in Tokyo and/or the partners in Joint-Venture vehicles.
8. Any others, ad-hoc basis
e.g. Preparation for complying new maritime regulations, renewing annual fleet insurance, etc
ü PART II :- Business Development
- Developing new business with potential customers / expanding with existing ones through world-wide marketing for building/owning vessels or any other investment projects
- Calculating overall budget for new projects/scheme (New built vessels, Second-hand vessels, or any other structured business and analysis/evaluation for them and managing outturn/progress on the existing projects.
- Analyzing shipping market and planning in investment/sales of vessels
- Negotiating/discussing extension of existing Time Charter contracts against Charterers
- Concluding the relevant contracts such as Ship Building Contracts, Time Charter Parties, Ship Sales Agreements (a.k.a. “Memorandum of Agreement”), Bareboat Charter Parties, Ship Management Agreements (Agency Agreements), etc.
- General managing in Entities’ profit and loss/balance sheet/cash flows in a manner set up
- Any others, ad-hoc basis
ü EXTRA:- Basically Ad-hoc basis
- Educating/managing colleagues in terms of all above as a Team Leader
- Public Relations of Company
- etc
TREATMENT EXPECTED
ü Gross Salary (in SGD) : $5,000 – 7,000 range but depending on performance expected
ü No AWS, but Bonus equivalent to 2 months (+ some depending on personal achievement)
ü Probation : 3 months
ü Annual Leaves 14 days/year for the first 5 years + Medical Leaves 14 days/year
Annual Leaves 21 days/year + same Medical Leaves thereafter
(basically will follow government regulation/guidance)
ü Medical Insurance
ü Transportation Fee : Actual expense for MRT/Bus/public modes only
ü CPF/SDN
ü No WFH unless the superiors approve
ü Or any others following Company rules and/or legal regulations.
COMMENTS BY COMPANY
ü Company is a pure shipowner who handles only Time Charter Parties and most contracts are long-termed ones. Thus, Candidate won’t handle any Voyage Charterers/Carriage of Goods by Bill of Lading contracts, especially SPOT playing in freight/hire market with us.
ü Our customers=Time Charterers are the first-classed and leading ones in shipping industry, like oil or grain majors, or some of the world largest operators, etc, which make our financial condition stable and where it is expected that Candidate can work steadily with relatively less being rushed.
ü Candidate sometimes must be responsible for 24/7 like in any other shipping companies.
ü The Technical Managers for assigned vessels are located in Singapore, Philippines and India, which Candidate would sometimes have to communicate day and night. However, in Singapore, he/she can make communication with the Managers face-to-face basis and ask anything anytime.
ü Basic experience of accounting/finance is preferable in performing shipowners’ duties. Hope Candidate has willingness to challenge in such new field, if they want to develop his/her skills (Very detailed ones are not required as Company will give him/her enough opportunities to catch up/learn as well as ships’ technical knowledge).
ü If Candidate has experience/skills in investment on large projects like purchasing/building/leasing real estate, plants or heavy machinery, arranging loans, derivatives, etc, he/she will be able to perform such skills very actively just with keeping learning shipping knowledge and/or ”customers’ map” as the essence in terms of investing could be said to be similar to that of ship owning business.
