Container Sale & Disposal Coordinator

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA is seeking a hands-on professional to coordinate worldwid e container sales and disposal activities. The role serves as the central contact for agencies regarding container purchase requests, local sales, and scrap transactions, ensuring accurate processing, invoicing, system updates, reporting, and compliance with procedures.

The position requires experience in shipping or logistics, strong organizational and analytical skills, and fluency in English.

Qualifications

• Requires strong organizational and coordination abilities.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Problem-solving and proactive communication skills.
• Customer service orientation with stakeholder management.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in an international environment.
• Strong reporting and data analysis capabilities.
• Experience with SAP and reporting tools is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and monitor container sales and disposal activities through MSC agencies.
• Serve as central point of contact for agencies regarding container purchase requests and local sales.
• Verify container availability and eligibility for sale per company guidelines.
• Support agencies in local sales transactions and monitor progress for timely closure.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and sales procedures; reflect transactions in systems.
• Create and validate invoices; monitor and resolve invoicing discrepancies; generate reports.
• Monitor EME transactions, review equipment activity, and maintain stock status.
• Update notes, remarks, flags, and contract information; manage ESR reporting.

Skills

Organizational skills

Coordination

Analytical mindset

Problem solving

Communication

Customer service

Data analysis

Tools

SAP

One Vision

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About Us

MSC is a privately owned global shipping company founded in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte. As one of the world’s leading container shipping lines with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, MSC operates in over 675 offices across more than 155 countries worldwide with over 200,000 MSC Group employees. With access to an integrated network of road, rail and sea transport resources which stretches across the globe, the company prides itself on delivering global service with local knowledge.

MSC is a world leader in global container shipping and a company offering global service with local knowledge. MSC also provides integrated network of road, rail and sea transport resources which stretches across the globe.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Job Purpose

Coordinate and monitor worldwidesecond-hand container sales and disposal activities through MSC agencies. Therole serves as the central point of contact for agencies regarding containerpurchase requests, local sales, and scrap transactions. The position ensuresaccurate processing of sales transactions, invoicing, system updates,reporting, and compliance with company procedures while supporting theoptimization of container inventory available for sale.

Key Responsibilities

• Container Sales Coordination
• Receive, review, and process container purchase requests submitted by MSC agencies for the sale of empty second-hand containers, to shippers or consignees and other approved purchasers through local agencies.
• Verify container availability and eligibility for sale in accordance with company guidelines.
• Support agencies in the execution and completion of local sales transactions.
• Monitor the progress of sales cases and ensure timely closure.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, contractual conditions, and sales procedures.
• Ensure sales and disposal transactions are accurately reflected in company systems.

Systems & Administration

SAP

• Create manual invoices for third-party container sales.
• Monitor and validate automatically generated invoices.
• Investigate and resolve invoicing discrepancies.
• Generate container sales and disposal reports.

One Vision

• Monitor EME transactions and investigate EDI errors.
• Review equipment activity and container status.
• Create and maintain SLD and SCR instructions.
• Update notes, remarks, flags, and contract information.
• Monitor stock availability through ESR reporting.

Key Competencies

• Strong organizational and coordination skills.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Customer service orientation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in an internationalenvironment.
• Strong reporting and data analysis skills.

Required Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in shipping, logistics, equipment management, container operations, shipping agency operations or a related field.
• Knowledge of container lifecycle management and second-hand container sales processes is an advantage
• Experience working with SAP and reporting tools is an advantage.

Full professional proficiency in English is a must

Equipment Management Teams

• Commercial Teams
• Finance, Accounting, internal Audit
• Regional Offices
• MSC Agencies

Systems & Tools

• SAP, One Vision, Power BI
• Microsoft Outlook / Email and Microsoft Excel

MSC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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