Maersk Line recruits 01 Area Vendor Manager – Southern Africa and Islands
Maersk Line
Cape Town, South Africa
Transports et logistique
Area Vendor Manager – Southern Africa and Islands
Full time
ZA – Cape Town
Opportunité
Area Vendor Manager – Responsible for the day to day performance management of vendors (from analytics through to stakeholder management) ensuring that on time delivery, capacity and split of volumes is safeguarded as well as spot pricing/capacity needs are met.
We Offer:
Maersk offers exciting career opportunities in a truly international working environment. When you join Maersk, the world becomes your workplace.
A career at Maersk means working in a culturally diverse, high-spirited and performance stimulating environment where everything we do is centered around our customers.
You’ll be part of a rich heritage and an ambitious logistics company that aims to be an inspiring and challenging place to work. You will feel the diversity and dynamics of our international business from day one.
We commit to providing the best possible development and career growth to all our employees. At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job.
A significant and strategic role in a large area where you will utilise your expertise to drive business decisions aimed at maximizing sustainable value creation.
Key Responsibilities:
Managing day to day performance of vendors (focus on South Africa) with functional support across the Southern Africa and Islands Area
Conduct Analytics and establish Dashboards / scorecards to do predictable and retro active analysis of day to day execution cycles (volume, capacity, utilisation and spend)
Provides insights to teams on supplier challenges and capabilities
Secures Ad-hoc quotes and capacity for physical inland products as required
Where needed, this role supports the Product, Procurement and Execution teams on corridor design, building new products with specific vendors (trucking and rail related primarily, but not limited to)
Works closely with procurement to support on sourcing strategy, vendor selection and negotiations
Track, measure and evaluate Vendor performance through regular and structured Vendor Management engagements
Cultivate and maintain relationships with strategic Vendors
Responsible for onboarding of new Vendors
Ad-hoc audits of Vendors to ensure compliance to Maersk’s policies.
Perform regular Vendor risk management and initiate mitigation actions
Key Requirements:
Good understanding of intermodal, transport management
Strong Analytical and reporting skills and capabilities
Leadership and people management experience
Procurement and negotiation skills
Stakeholder management across varying levels with exceptional presentation skills
Customer oriented
Continuous improvement mindset
High sense of urgency
Knowledge of local market
Informations supplémentaires
Ref. R32676
A.P. Moller – Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer’s supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 70,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere – all over the world.POSTULER