Transversal Lead, Long Haul Trade

Job Responsibilities

Job summary: 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.