Jobs at Air France in Singapore

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Now it's your chance to get to know us from within: a workplace full of warmth, friendship and support. We invite you to join our wonderful team and be part of our purpose: Improving life for all by integrating the world.

Join us and play an important role on our team lifting global trade every day!

We are now looking for a Global Head, Gateways and 3rd Party Agents to join the Air Freight Forwarding team. Reporting to a Global Head of Airfreight, you are responsible for overseeing and ensuring effective operations of a global network of Import / Export Gateways, as well as establishing Global Gateway Policy, managing tactical procurement, establishing a cost-effective structure and generating a monthly balanced scorecard to drive GP improvement, cost management and service improvements. Ownership of all 3rd party agents, relationships, profitability and growth.

What we offer

By Joining Maersk, you will become part of the global family of the company that moves 20% of global trade every day, where one of our core values is Our Employees. It goes without saying that we value diversity: we thrive on the diversity of our talent in all its forms, and we see it as a strength in building high-performance teams across brands, cultures, and locations.

Besides focusing on creating value for our customers and the business, a key priority for us is to drive personal and professional development for our people to prepare for further career progression.

Flexibility: Work location can be flexible.

1. Ensure process and staffing standardization across all Gateway Operations.
2. Create Balanced Scorecard for each operation and align key measurables to be reported on a monthly basis – establish improvement goals for each criteria – by Gateway.
3. Set GP improvement goals through optimizing the building of large effective consolidations and relentless tactical procurement.
4. Ensure operational alignment among global gateways.
5. Create Global Gateway Policy – mandatory use unless approved exceptions (DG, Express etc) Measure to ensure compliance.
6. Optimize volume flows objective of achieving best possible lowest net achieved costs and respective promised transit times.
7. Execute, design and optimize road feeder structure to feed and de-feed stations to Gateway (Import / Export).
8. Coordinate / measure with countries to ensure gateway routing discipline and that routing guides is adhered to.
9. Establish new consol destination as required.
10. Ensure compliance to all regulatory requirements – CFS / Screening.
11. Strong inclusion in RFQ pricing process.
12. Maintain / Develop relationships with Global Third Party Agents.
13. Support the Airfreight Growth within our agency network through education, pricing and sales support.
14. Create the needed measurements to assess growth in agent business and GP within the Maersk Network.
15. Establish GP / Tonnage Growth targets for top 10 agents – with ongoing monthly measurements.
16. Assess 3rd party Agent financial and operational performance.
17. Actively participate in carrier data driven performance reviews.
18. Responsible and ensure effective CW implementation and ongoing process management.
19. Ownership of the ISO9001-2015 standard as pertains to gateways effectiveness.

1. A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience is required.
2. At least 15 years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility in the airfreight industry.
3. Proven track record with air carriers in the market.
4. Ability to work within a team and communicate with both internal and external stakeholders in a professional manner.
5. Ability to manage workload independently and with attention to deadlines.

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. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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