The Role:
The role of the Container Team Lead is lead the Container team to ensure the Company's fleet is utilised to optimise profit. The role focuses on minimising the Company’s exposure to avoidable costs by ensuring precise planning is executed and timely actions are taken with key stakeholders.
Fleet management – manage relationships and negotiate with suppliers for the lease and purchase of equipment. Maintain a fleet replenishment program to ensure stock is fit for purpose and right sized to the commercial demand. Oversee Container Maintenance and Repair activity, develop IT interfaces and improve process automation to allow increased visibility of impact to container turnaround and cost impact.
Container supply – manage equipment turn around in port and optimise empty container flows within available capacity. Communication of equipment supply to forecasted volumes to stakeholders, identifying bottlenecks and listing contingency plans. Continuous drive to improve container productivity performance.
Qualifications:
- Experience with container management and logistics - experience within logistics and / or container leasing preferable.
- Strong interpersonal and analytical skills
- The ability to successfully work with and across other departments in the organisation, particularly Commercial and Finance
- Preferably previous experience of budgetary responsibility.
- Strong skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PowerBI essential.
- Demonstrated ability to define and optimise work process efficiencies.
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