Transversal Lead, Long Haul Trade

Job Responsibilities

The Transversal Lead is responsible for driving both transformational initiatives and transversal trade functions across Long Haul Trade, with a primary focus on organisation-wide transformation, complemented by operational transversal responsibilities.

1. Transformation Management Lead and drive key transformation initiatives across Long Haul Trade and other business process improvement initiatives, from opportunity identification through implementation and closure. Manage the end-to-end project lifecycle by defining objectives, coordinating milestones, tracking progress, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, scope and quality expectations. Lead and coordinate the SME team across pricing, cargo flow and analytics to support transformation workstreams, strengthen functional alignment, and ensure business requirements are translated into practical solutions. Develop dashboards, analytics and regular reporting tools to improve visibility of trade performance, highlight exceptions or out-of-norm cases, and support data-driven decision-making.
2. Transversal Trade Management Oversee Long Haul southbound space management for both laden and empty flows, working closely with trade teams to optimise allocation, utilisation and cost effectiveness. Act as the key coordination point between Long Haul Trade teams and Intra Asia for southbound space requirements, ensuring allocation decisions are aligned with trade priorities and service changes. Coordinate ISP-related matters across Long Haul Trade by consolidating inputs, aligning stakeholders and supporting consistent execution of trade requirements. Support budget planning and tracking by coordinating trade inputs, monitoring key assumptions and variances, and ensuring timely visibility of financial or operational impacts. Coordinate equipment planning matters with relevant stakeholders to support cargo planning, space optimisation and operational feasibility.
3. Governance Develop regular exception reporting to identify inefficiencies, deviations and out-of-norm cases, and work with relevant teams to follow through on corrective actions. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure transversal initiatives are aligned, well governed and effectively implemented. Maintain a central repository for Long Haul Trade reporting, best practices and key project documentation to improve knowledge sharing, standardisation and continuity across the team.
4. Strategic Leadership & Communication Ensure strong alignment between Long Haul Trade, other trades, regional offices, local offices and corporate functions and other relevant stakeholders. Facilitate transparent and effective communication across stakeholders to ensure priorities, decisions, trade requirements and operational implications are clearly understood and acted upon. Translate strategic direction into executable actions across teams by setting clear priorities, coordinating follow-up actions and ensuring alignment with Long Haul Trade objectives. Provide leadership support to Trade Management by highlighting key issues, proposing practical solutions and ensuring transformation and transversal initiatives remain aligned with business priorities. Job Requirements Bachelor's degree in Maritime Studies, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field. At least 8-10 years of trade management or related experience with a global liner Strong organizational and multitasking skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.