We are looking for a Foreign Feeder Manager Americas to join our Ocean Procurement team, preferably based in Panama, as part of our Ocean Customer Logistics and Global Procurement organization, reporting into Head of Depot and EMR procurement.
You will be a part of a dynamic, exciting and transforming environment, with the ability to contribute to Maersk’s customer journey, in the Ocean Procurement role.
Key Responsibilities
Overall responsible for optimizing the procurement spend across the Foreign feeders and barges categories
Develop category strategy in alignment with OCL, Global Foreign Feeder sourcing agenda, Equipment and Area multi brand business plans
Enable sustainable and profitable growth through best-in-class sourcing, optimizing operational behaviors and supplier innovation.
Collaborate with other categories to develop holistic negotiation strategies to capitalize the highest benefit to APM Group
Manages procurement projects across a wide range of areas with responsibility and adherence to Compliance principles, including development and implementation of sourcing strategies.
Manage vendor relationships incl. performance management
Colaborate closely with colleagues and stakeholders in OCL, Global Procurement teams, Network Design, Commercial multibrand areas, and other OCLs.
Perform supplier market analysis and organise market intelligence for categories in scope and benchmarkAPM Group’s costs with competition and ensure best operational cost
Who we are looking for :
Demonstrated project management capability
Comfortable with numbers
Expertise in financial modelling
Process improvement skills
Experience with digital procurement tools is preferred
Experience with ESG / environmental and sustainable procurement is a strong advantage
3+ year experience in shipping preferred
Able to deal with ambiguity
Ability to drive motivation & engagement for yourself
Ability to constructively challenge the safe choice
