Senior Capacity Optimization Lead – Regional Shipping

Emiratesline; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ESL Group seeks an experienced professional to join our organization for Capacity management. This role is at the heart of our business, working across a variety of stakeholders to execute our strategy and to maximize profitability for ESL.

You will synthesize supply and demand in key markets and help deliver a best-in-class customer experience. Responsibilities include monitoring bookings, optimizing space, collaborating with area stakeholders, and coordinating with product analysts, trade, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 2-3 years’ experience in the shipping industry ideally having been in capacity/cargo flow, commercial and/or trade.
• Data savvy – loves to work with numbers and can use them to tell a story; experience with databases, data visualization tools, programming or similar are a plus!

Responsibilities

• Monitoring bookings and optimizing space by adjusting allocation between load and discharge ports to improve utilization and trade performance.
• Adjusting cargo loading, including rolling and re-routing, through close collaboration with area stakeholders.
• Liaising with the product analyst, trade, and marketing team to steer cargo to achieve maximum revenue on available capacity.
• Seeking high utilization across all services through forecast management and downfall analysis.
• Planning for seasonality changes with stowage planners and commercial teams.
• Supporting the execution of the empty flow plan in collaboration with the equipment team.
• Reducing waste, such as re-nominations and longstanding at ports, through timely planning and execution.
• Working closely with Marine Operations to ensure schedule reliability and handle contingencies like port omissions, swaps, schedule delays, and cargo overflows.
• Contributing ideas to improve processes within the team and across departments.
• Analyzing service performance and representing capacity with inputs for service improvement.
• Establishing good working relationships with partners and managing the VSA/SWAP/SCA deals.
• Preparing related reports.

Skills

Collaborative

Data-driven

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

ESL Group seeks an experienced professional to join our organization for Capacity management. This role is at the heart of our business, working across a variety of stakeholders to execute our strategy and to maximize profitability for ESL.

You will synthesize supply and demand in key markets and help deliver a best-in-class customer experience. Responsibilities include monitoring bookings, optimizing space, collaborating with area stakeholders, and coordinating with product analysts, trade, and