Total 3 job vacancies by Blumenthal Asia Pte. Ltd.

Main responsibilities:

Manage the fleet order cycle to enhance business performance and ensure sustainability while ensuring vessels get what they need, when they need it, where they need it, to operate safely, cost effectively, while optimizing commercial performance. He /She shall further:

• Strategically plan and manage procurement, warehouse and inventory, transportation and clearance of supplies for global fleet.
• Manage the catering needs of the entire fleet.
• Keep the Head of Technical Management fully advised on fleet and vendor supply issues.
• Interface with Commercial managers and Operational managers as needed to support corporate commercial activities and third party vessel operations as required.
• Develop good communication and relationships with suppliers, manufacturers and service providers.
• Ensure optimization of the logistic set-up (work flows, selection of suppliers and logistic providers, warehousing and inventory) for procurement globally or locally as trading patterns dictate.
• Integrate Company’s quality, compliance, and safety standards into the procurement and supply processes to enhance fleet performance and ensure compliance with Company policy, ISM standards, and all laws and regulations.
• Negotiate, implement, and manage logistic agreements with qualified global logistics vendors.
• Negotiate, implement, and manage master services or supply agreements with key/critical vendors.
• Arbitrate and resolve supply and logistics issues.
• Develop and maintain metrics and provide analysis to assess logistics and supply chain performance.
• Actively participate in budget process by providing reliable data and local/global perspective.
• Ensure reliable and clear reporting to accounting for transparency and control purposes.
• When required, ensure detailed and constructive support for accident and warranty claims.
• Lead, organize and optimize resources of the supply chain team, develop and coach to ensure continuity and excellence in process of procurement.
• Proactively anticipate needs for store & spares, keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels and delivery time.
• Arrange warehouse, manage rotating capital inventory, manage core returns, consumable goods catalogues, and plan supply routes, etc.
• Utilize and optimize company’s business applications to support logistics and supply chain activities.
• Communicate information on compliance, insurance requirements, technical standards and regulations to staff, partners and suppliers and ensure application.
• Ensure invoice processing is correctly managed with emphasis on accuracy and speed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Qualifications

The applicant requires the following educational background and qualifications:

• A Master’s degree related to Shipping, Accounting or a Technical field of study
• Seagoing experience as an officer
• Previous on-shore experience in a similar role
• Experience with catering for seagoing vessels

Job-Specific Skills:

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Team work and cooperation skills
• Very good organisational skills
• Understanding of logistics (Air freight/Sea freight/last mile deliveries)
• Worldwide operations require fluency of the English language
• Additional languages are a plus
• PC literacy

Main responsibilities:

Support the fleet order cycle to enhance business performance and ensure sustainability while ensuring vessels get what they need, when they need it, where they need it, to operate safely, cost effectively, while optimizing commercial performance. He/She shall further:

· Perform purchasing duties for spare parts and supplies for vessels, warehouse and office.

· Administrate the supply chain process by receiving approved Requisitions, sending Requests for Quote (RFP), Processing approved bids to Purchase Order, and matching delivery receipt to Invoice.

· Process new vendor applications, ensure vendors are compliance checked, and select vendors to RFQ.

· Maintain vendor performance records. Interact with Superintendents and ships to identify and meet requirements, to address problem resolution, and to accommodate short lead time orders.

· Schedule, arrange and follow up on logistics to ensure cost effective and timely delivery of items on board.

· Monitor schedules of assigned vessels to optimize on deliveries on board.

· Process invoices in timely manner for all materials and supplies purchased.

· Ensure ship staff update receipt of the goods.

· Provide financial reporting information as requested.

· Evaluate bids to ensure there are competing quotations for comparison.

· Coordinate with appointed freight forwarder and monitor stock list at regular intervals.

· Month end requisition status/plan — a report to be sent to the assigned vessels to update supply requirements and to determine which items must be purchased at the next port of call.

· Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The candidate should have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar position within a shipping company, preferably in the dry bulk sector.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Team work and cooperation skills
• Very good organisational skills
• Basic understanding of logistics (Air freight/Sea freight/last mile deliveries)
• Worldwide operations require fluency of the English language
• Additional languages are a plus
• PC literacy

Responsibilities

· Take responsibility for ensuring smooth post-fixture operations of assigned vessels in close cooperation with our chartering desk, the vessels’ masters and all relevant external parties (charterers, agents, shippers, receivers, terminals and bunker suppliers)

· Take overall responsibility of all cargo hold related matters for their vessels under management. This includes monitoring and advising on hold cleaning requirements and operations, as well as closely coordinating with chartering and operations colleagues about cargo/charterer/terminal requirements for cargo hold conditions.

· Arrange, coordinate and monitor vessels’ sailing schedule and vessels’ port activities

· Issue invoices, perform laytime calculations, collect outstanding hire/freight, handle agents and order bunker stems

· Monitor vessels’ performance (speed-consumption) and avoid off-hire

· Analyse the economic performance of the vessels by comparing the actual results in relation to the pre-calculation of the trip

· Cooperate with chartering on amendments to CP clauses when required.

· Studying upcoming regulations and requirements and advising colleagues on needed actions

· Keep a close eye on all related markets next to dry bulk shipping.

· Developing and intensifying relationships with relevant external parties (charterers, agents, shippers, receivers, terminals and bunker suppliers)

· Supervise, advise and support junior colleagues in all matters relating to vessel operations.

Requirements

· Minimum 10 years’ experience in a similar position

· Great understanding of dry bulk shipping and related cargoes

· Experience with geared and non-geared vessels.

· Ability to plan and execute in a structured and proactive manner

· Since we are operating worldwide, good knowledge of English is required. Additional language skills are a plus

· Ability to work with Microsoft Office products