Logistics Assistant Manager (Shipping)

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 70.000 - 95.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company in Singapore seeks a seasoned logistics professional to manage regional equipment and support intermodal operations across Far East networks. You will ensure equipment availability, inventory control, and coordinate with agencies to enable timely decisions and cost optimisation.

The role also involves benchmarking vendor performance, negotiating with carriers, and advising on routing and pricing to improve service reliability.

Qualificações

• 4–9 years of shipping and business analysis experience.
• Degree preferred; strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Identify operational needs and leverage digital solutions.
• Coordinate intermodal operations with feeder operators and agencies on rates and routing.
• Plan empty equipment repositioning across inland locations for export demand.
• Monitor equipment inventory, utilization, schedules, and delays.
• Guide routing and pricing decisions to improve cost efficiency.
• Assess vendor performance and manage contract renewals and rate reviews.

Conhecimentos

Shipping & logistics

Intermodal operations

Data analysis

Vendor management

Microsoft Office

Power BI

Formação

Bachelor's degree preferred

Ferramentas

Power BI

Excel

Costing tools

Descrição da vaga

• The role combines regional equipment management responsibilities with intermodal operations support across Far East networks. The position is responsible for ensuring equipment availability and inventory control, while supporting intermodal operations, tariffs, pricing, vendor coordination, and cost control across feeder, barge, truck, and rail activities.
• The role acts as a key coordination point with agencies and network teams to enable timely decision-making, improve operational continuity and optimisation of costs
• Drive business transformation for Intermodal and Equipment

Key Responsibilities

• Identify operational needs of Logistics requirements and leveraging with digital solutions
• Coordinate intermodal operations by liaising with feeder operators and agencies on rates, space, routing changes, urgent shipments, and feeder requests.
• Plan and coordinate empty equipment repositioning, across inland locations to support export demand and operational priorities.
• Monitor equipment inventory, stock imbalances, idle containers, turnaround time, utilisation trends, vessel schedules, service changes, port congestion, delays, omissions, and import/export imbalances.
• Guide routing and pricing decisions to improve cost efficiency, service reliability, equipment flow, and alignment with regional and corporate objectives.
• Regularly assess and benchmark vendor and service provider performance, including contract renewals, service improvements, rate reviews, and operational responsiveness.

Requirements

• A degree is preferred.
• Generally, 4-9 years of relevant experience in shipping and business analysis
• Strong communication skills to engage internal and external stakeholders
• Relevant exposure to carrier, container control, or intermodal environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret operational data, cost trends, equipment imbalances, and performance information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PBI.
• Negotiation skills and vendor management experience are an advantage.