Global Head of Ocean Procurement

6 days ago


Singapore Alcott Global Full time

**We Offer**:

- Joining this Global Logistics Company, you will embark on a great journey with excellent career development opportunities in a global organization.
- You will own and manage a global seafreight procurement to develop the sourcing strategies and supplier relationships that will enable the company to realize its growth aspirations.
- You will develop and motivate a team of highly skilled, cross cultural procurement professionals and be an active member of the Global Ocean Procurement Leadership team, driving results and engagement across the business. Working with global, regional, and country stakeholders you will develop ocean products and senior supplier relationships that will enable the company to execute ocean strategies, grow market share and maximize profit.
- Besides understanding what drives the end-to-end operational cost and performance of the global logistics company, you will be offered unique opportunities to build and support our transformation into the global integrator of container logistics.
- You will personally lead several high impacts sourcing projects, collaborating with a range of external partners across the transportation industry.
- You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of business issues requiring regular engagement, coordination, and collaboration with key stakeholders across various management levels within the company.
- Opportunities to work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders will enable you to build a strong professional network, as well as broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.

**Accountabilities**:

- Key focus areas include global procurement of ocean freight & capacity, trade lane and ocean product development, spot pricing, solutions enabling business development, supplier relationship management and competitive tender responses as well as lowest cost solutions for the company.
- (Ocean products includes FCL, LCL & ocean-related transportation services)
- (Global includes Oceania, Asia, Middle East, Europe, USA, Africa)
- Foster positive vendor relationships and manage performance, ensuring contract compliance and positive cost development.
- **Procurement of all ocean related services**:

- Work with Regional and Country Managers to manage ocean contract negotiations Cultivate & maintain carrier relationships at senior levels
- Procure pricing and service requirements in line with customer’s demands to meet service level and customer’s expectations.
- Communicate & collaborate closely with Global Forwarding regional & country teams to deliver market-leading price & service options for customers
- Manage relationships with LCL co-loaders as well as price & service negotiations for all LCL services
- Manage external vendors of pricing tools (tariff publication, contract management, etc.) Implement supplier relationship management with structured quarterly business reviews
- etc
- **Manage product yield and profitability**:

- Work with Regional and Country Managers to measure and drive improved yield and profitability across the ocean product
- Assist in the development and implementation of tools and KPI’s to improve yield management and productivity
- **Maintain and improve customer service experience**:

- Oversee carrier performance in conjunction with Country Management
- Address supplier’s underperformance with clearly defined corrective action plans
- Assist in the development and implementation of tools and KPIs for customer service quality management
- **Capacity management & planning**:

- Leverage global volumes and carrier relationships to ensure sufficient capacity throughout the year through the coordination with Global Logistics & Forwarding and Operational Excellence teams.
- Implementation of customer-specific allocations, in conjunction with internal stakeholders, to ensure space and equipment availability in response to business demands
- **Sales & New Business Development**:

- Assist in the closing of new ocean business opportunities together with Sales Participate in quarterly business reviews with top customers
- Provide regular market insight & suggest innovative new solutions to customers Identify Ocean Freight growth opportunities - new customers, new markets
- Create tools to help promote the company’s ocean products
- Define corrective actions with sales organization to reach agreed targets and carrier commitments
- **Team Leadership**:

- Provide leadership in seafreight space to a small existing, experienced team.

**We are looking for**:

- Furthermore, direct experience within fields of the logistics & transportation industry is looked upon positively.
- You demonstrate strong negotiation skills together with an outgoing and convincing personality; an inspiring person who can engage and support teams & colleagues to deliver while collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
- You enjoy developing the big picture while also being comfortabl



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