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WHO WE ARE:

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and has been an industry pioneer for over a century. Through innovation and transformation we are redefining the boundaries of possibility, continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.

At Maersk, we believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organization reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve.

With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.

Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk.

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WHAT WE OFFER:

Maersk being the global leader in the industry, you’ll have the opportunity to work for a large global organization and get exposure to excellent processes and systems. You will join an organization that offers a challenging and rewarding career where everyone’s contribution is valued and rewarded.

On leadership and mentoring, Maersk has a nurturing management culture. Throughout their career, your leaders will support your ideas and provide necessary advice and training. You’ll be given the opportunity to prove yourself, as well as challenging work that develops your abilities.

On career development, there are wide range of roles in Maersk and Maersk has a very good career mobility program that establishes a culture of priority consideration to internal candidates and encourages employees to take responsibility for managing their careers whether to move laterally or vertically

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Air Procurement:

• Work closely with airlines to obtain the market best Airfreight Cost (ad-hoc or long term).

• Manage and maintain business relationships with Carriers/ Suppliers/ Other Stakeholders.

• Provide support to all quotation requests from internal customers (local and overseas).

• Follow up contract renewal with our appointed Suppliers.

• Coordinate with Other Stake holders (IATA, Airfreight training Agents…) for all related issues such as payment follow-up, Bank Guarantee, and required Air certificate.

• Responsible for Airfreight product development with Internal business units; Airlines and vendors.

• Continuous improvement by job-learning to adapt to ad-hoc challenges and market changes.

• Assist the commercial team for all airfreight development tasks, i.e. pricing strategy, routing selection, join sales visit; training on basic airfreight product knowledge.

• Provide weekly updated market tariffs; market analysis report & other reporting as assigned.

2. Capacity Management:

• Daily Shipment Booking handling.

• Daily Airlines booking handling and securing sufficient capacity for short and long-term business volume needs.

• Gather market intelligence during regular communication with airlines and other business partners.

• Follow up on carriers' performance and support for problem-solving at the airport cargo terminal.

• Monitoring core carriers’ performance per regional and global guidance. Follow up with airlines for any irregularity issue has occurred, and prevent any service failure cases

• Coordinate with the customer service team and airport operations for any shipment booking detail changes

• Carry out shipment consolidation and uplift planning via the most effective arrangement; in order to achieve maximum capacity usage & profit margin

• Follow up on the booking status/ track & trace shipment from delivery at the origin till arrival destination completely

• Must comply with Maersk procurement Compliance

3. Problem solving:

• Ability & take ownership of assigned tasks, ensure smooth handling from A-Z

• Support other teams (operations, sales team…) to solve problems with airport terminals, airlines, customers, overseas offices

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JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of experience in freight forwarding/ airfreight.

• General skills such as MS Office, presentation, negotiation, and being a team player

• Basic knowledge of the freight forwarding industry, especially the main Airline carriers in the local market (current/potential partners)

• Know Potential Volumes, traffic flows, key clients and competitive environment in the marketplace.

• Logical thinking, sharp mindset, flexibility & pro-active in analysis & solving problems to adapt withthe urgency of airfreight service

• Understand and be able to operate relevant operational processes, relative to inbound/outbound shipments and related customs requirements.

• Familiarity and capability of using relevant tools/documentation (airway bills, cargo, software…) and product-specific jargon.

• Ability to understand and anticipate client needs, business trends and associated potential for revenue generation in selected target industries/trade lanes

• Ability to design differentiating consolidation solutions for Maersk that can increase closing rates for chosen clients, verticals, trade lanes

• Ability to effectively negotiate Win/Win agreements with internal and external customers, and service partners.

• Prefer basic knowledge of Airfreight Specific Loading Devices (ULD's), Dangerous Goods (DG), IATA that enables service and sales propositions to be crafted and delivered.

• Collaboration mindset, creative problem solving, innovative for improvement

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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