Maersk Line recruits 01 Rail Transport Product Manager SAI
Maersk Line
Durban, Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa
Transports et logistique
Rail Transport Product Manager SAI
ZA – Durban, More…
Opportunité
We are looking for a commercially focused, driven, and experienced candidate to take up the role as Rail Transportation Product Manager for Maersk in Southern Africa. In this role you will be responsible for the profitability and commercial aspects of all our rail transportation offerings across the thirteen countries forming part of Southern Africa and Islands Area*. You will be designing new products and corridors for our customers and driving delivery of our growth ambitions internally.
The ideal candidate has a strong experience within rail transportation and logistics in general, strong stakeholder management skills, and an acumen for business development and growth.
Flexible Location – Durban, Cape Town or Johannesburg based.
* SAI Area: South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Seychelles and Mozambique.
What 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible and accountable for the P&L of your landside transportation product family – Rail Transport – ensuring that we meet our ambitious targets.
Set the strategy for the product family and fully own the development of landside transportation products, including the pricing towards our customers in your area.
Business development within the landside transportation category exploring opportunities and developing business cases to support future profitable growth and value for our customers.
Analyse and map market dynamics and opportunities, driving sustainable volume growth.
Identification of potential M&A opportunities.
Work closely with sales and participate in high-level customer engagements to understand their needs and establish products to serve those needs.
Selected tender management jointly with sales, and actively involved in selling and securing new business as well as customer retention.
Who we are looking for:
Degree in Logistics plus min 5 years in a role controlling large rail operation (Containerised and un-containerised) with demonstrated growth or if no qualification, min 8 years’ experience in such a role;
A market network (Customers/Suppliers) that is in touch with up-to-date market intelligence;
Translates customer needs and business opportunities into solutions;
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills and set focus/direction;
Strong P&L experience, anticipates future product performance delivery and factors this into overall pricing strategy;
Strong analytical skills and business acumen;
Ability to distill complex information and translate highly complex matters into relevant commercial story line;
Ability to challenge thinking and with strong reasoning and ‘buy in’ skills.
Flexible Location – Durban, Cape Town or Johannesburg
Informations supplémentaires
Ref. R36351
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