Responsibilities
- Manage and optimise utilisation for the vessels within Region XXX across all allocation scopes (trades), all Geo Froms for full and empty containers
- Responsible for Allocation and Capacity Management on designated Ship Systems / Trades
- Creation of Voyage Allocations and Customer Allocations as per alignment with TM Pricing & Steering
- Define allocation management steering measures to control the booking uptake in line with the trade strategy (e.g. managing contribution baselines for cargo acceptance)
- Monitor and predict the voyage utilisation based on booking developments and initiate corrective measures where required
- Monitor key connections between services at transshipment ports and initiate corrective booking acceptance measures where required.
- Monitor the uptake and follow up with relational TMPS and internally with TM Cargo Controllers handling other SSYs
- Handle waitlisted shipments
- Prioritise cargoes for loading/shut out when required considering commercial rules as well as operational and cost aspects
- Drive the performance for the Cargo Control KPIs – utilization, QP3 fast booking response, QP7 Loaded as booked and dwell time reduction
- Reduce operational costs resulting out of our cargo flows to a minimum (renominations, storage)
- Liaising with ship planners (own or partner line) on space related topics and operational restrictions (e.g. draft, ballast & bunker, stack weight, etc)
- Responsible for special cargo approval applications (e.g. OOG, Flexi tank) to planners/partner lines
- Liaise with QSCs and GCC for Customer Service related topics (e.g. vessel balancing) as well as Cargo Operations topics (e.g. terminal build up, load lists)
- Cooperate closely with TM Pricing & Steering and the Commercial Organisation (e.g. Global Account Management, Commercial Steering) regarding booking development and respective market situation
- Liaise with the Commercial Organisation (Regional Commercial, Global Sales) regarding uptake performance push
- Consultation on required schedule recovery measures in collaboration with Operations
- Create tactical forecasts where required as per joint working procedures considering expected booking development also on connecting services
- Provide input to capacity requirements when needed e.g. shuttle or feeder space requirements.
Job Requirements
- Degree in Shipping, Transportation or related discipline
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in liner shipping/ transportation industry
- Operational background and Trade Management or Commercial Steering experience welcome
- Comprehensive knowledge about HL applications (FIS, Qlik.) (Advantageous)
- Proficient in MS-Office products (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Analytical, systematic and efficient way of working
- Motivated, proactive and reliable
- Willing to take ownership of tasks and responsibility
- Teamplayer with strong communication skills
- Excellent negotiations skills and assertiveness
- Acceptance of flexible working times also on holidays/weekends
- Experience in dealing with different stakeholder groups
- Ability to develop and implement new concepts and structures
- Knowledge about Hapag-Lloyd’s global product offering (Network & Partners) (Advantageous)
