Transversal Lead, Long Haul Trade

Pacific International Lines; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific International Lines is seeking a Transversal Lead to drive transformational initiatives across Long Haul Trade, focusing on organization-wide transformation and operational responsibilities. The ideal candidate will manage the project lifecycle, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enhance trade performance through data-driven decision-making.

A Bachelor's degree in Maritime Studies, Business Administration, or Logistics, along with 8-10 years of relevant experience is essential for this role. Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills are required.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of trade management or related experience with a global liner.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive key transformation initiatives across Long Haul Trade.
• Manage the end‑to‑end project lifecycle for transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders on transversal initiatives.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to improve trade visibility.
• Coordinate budget planning and trade inputs.

Skills

Organizational skills

Multitasking

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Maritime Studies, Business Administration, Logistics, or related field

Job description

Job summary: The Transversal Lead is responsible for driving both transformational initiatives and transversal trade functions across Long Haul Trade, with a primary focus on organisation‑wide transformation, complemented by operational transversal responsibilities.

Transformation Management

• Lead and drive key transformation initiatives across Long Haul Trade and other business process improvement initiatives, from opportunity identification through implementation and closure.
• Manage the end‑to‑end project lifecycle by defining objectives, coordinating milestones, tracking progress, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, scope and quality expectations.
• Lead and coordinate the SME team across pricing, cargo flow and analytics to support transformation workstreams, strengthen functional alignment, and ensure business requirements are translated into practical solutions.
• Develop dashboards, analytics and regular reporting tools to improve visibility of trade performance, highlight exceptions or out‑of‑norm cases, and support data‑driven decision‑making.
• Oversee Long Haul southbound space management for both laden and empty flows, working closely with trade teams to optimise allocation, utilisation and cost effectiveness.
• Act as the key coordination point between Long Haul Trade teams and Intra Asia for southbound space requirements, ensuring allocation decisions are aligned with trade priorities and service changes.
• Coordinate ISP‑related matters across Long Haul Trade by consolidating inputs, aligning stakeholders and supporting consistent execution of trade requirements.
• Support budget planning and tracking by coordinating trade inputs, monitoring key assumptions and variances, and ensuring timely visibility of financial or operational impacts.
• Coordinate equipment planning matters with relevant stakeholders to support cargo planning, space optimisation and operational feasibility.

Governance

• Develop regular exception reporting to identify inefficiencies, deviations and out‑of‑norm cases, and work with relevant teams to follow through on corrective actions.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure transversal initiatives are aligned, well governed and effectively implemented.
• Maintain a central repository for Long Haul Trade reporting, best practices and key project documentation to improve knowledge sharing, standardisation and continuity across the team.

Strategic Leadership & Communication

• Ensure strong alignment between Long Haul Trade, other trades, regional offices, local offices and corporate functions and other relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate transparent and effective communication across stakeholders to ensure priorities, decisions, trade requirements and operational implications are clearly understood and acted upon.
• Translate strategic direction into executable actions across teams by setting clear priorities, coordinating follow‑up actions and ensuring alignment with Long Haul Trade objectives.
• Provide leadership support to Trade Management by highlighting key issues, proposing practical solutions and ensuring transformation and transversal initiatives remain aligned with business priorities.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Maritime Studies, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field.
• At least 8-10 years of trade management or related experience with a global liner.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.