Hub Service Planning Manager - Head haul

Damco Spain SL; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High impact role

People leadership growth

Global standards exposure

Job summary

Maersk in Singapore is seeking a Hub Service Planning Manager to lead the Cargo Flow Optimization team across Singapore and Tanjung Pelepas, driving safe, cost-efficient transshipment operations and reliable network performance.

You will collaborate with terminal management, commercial teams, and stakeholders to resolve incidents, improve service delivery, and advance standardized global standards through practical hub expertise.

Qualifications

• Experience in operations and leadership is preferred but not required.
• Ability to lead a team and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong focus on standardization, efficiency, and performance improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and inspire the Cargo Flow Optimization team to deliver strong operational outcomes.
• Drive capacity planning decisions that enable efficient container loading and resilient cargo flows.
• Oversee critical cargo transshipment connections for Maersk vessels, ensuring network reliability.
• Lead operational contingencies with speed, ownership, and a focus on customer impact and cost.
• Champion a cost-conscious mindset and identify opportunities to optimize operations without compromising service quality.
• Partner with terminal operators to strengthen operational standards, feedback loops, and performance outcomes.
• Challenge, improve, and shape Maersk’s global standards by bringing hub expertise into global conversations.
• Ensure accurate, timely load, discharge, and transshipment operations.
• Drive the tech agenda within the team to enable future-ready ways of working.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to reduce costs, enhance customer experience, and optimize processes.
• Meet terminal vendors regularly for feedback and performance discussions.

Skills

Leadership

Capacity planning

Stakeholder engagement

Vendor management

Process improvement

Operations management

Cost optimization

Change management

Job description

As Hub Service Planning Manager in Ocean Operations, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how cargo flows through Maersk’s largest transshipment hubs in Singapore and Tanjung Pelepas. Leading a team of Cargo Flow Optimisation operators, you will help ensure safe, cost-efficient, and reliable transshipment operations that directly support customer promises across the network. This is an opportunity to lead at the heart of regional hub operations, solving complex operational challenges, driving fast contingency resolution, and building stronger ways of working with global and regional colleagues.

You will gain broad international exposure across Asia Pacific, working closely with terminal management, commercial teams, and operational stakeholders to resolve cargo incidents, support specific customer needs, and continuously raise performance standards. In this role, you will be empowered to drive cost leadership, improve service delivery, and lead meaningful change initiatives that strengthen Maersk’s hub operations for the future.

We Offer

• A high-impact role at the centre of Maersk’s regional hub operations, working with diverse stakeholders, vendors, and colleagues.
• Opportunities to grow as a people leader while strengthening capabilities in execution management, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, vendor management, and multicultural communication.
• A deep view into Maersk’s operational and commercial engine, with the chance to influence how global standards and processes evolve.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and inspire the Cargo Flow Optimization team to deliver strong operational outcomes.
• Drive capacity planning decisions that enable efficient container loading and resilient cargo flows.
• Oversee critical cargo transshipment connections for Maersk vessels, ensuring network reliability and customer confidence.
• Lead operational contingencies with speed, ownership, and a clear focus on customer impact and cost.
• Champion a cost-conscious mindset and identify opportunities to optimize operations without compromising service quality.
• Partner with terminal operators to strengthen operational standards, feedback loops, and performance outcomes.
• Challenge, improve, and help shape Maersk’s global standards by bringing practical hub expertise into global conversations.
• Ensure accurate, timely load, discharge, and transshipment operations.
• Drive the tech agenda within team to enable future ready ways of working.

Engagement Responsibility

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to reduce costs, enhance customer experience, and optimize processes.
• Recommend improvements to the Hub Service Planning team.
• Meet terminal vendors regularly for feedback and performance discussions.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a confident and engaging leader who thrives in dynamic operations and brings people together to solve complex challenges. The ideal candidate communicates clearly, builds trusted relationships, and takes pride in developing others. You should bring a strong improvement mindset, a passion for standardization, and the curiosity to understand both operational and commercial priorities. Most importantly, you are someone who wants to make a visible impact—delivering cost-efficient, end-to-end services while helping the team grow, perform, and shape the future of hub service planning. Experience in operations and leadership is preferred but not required.

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.
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