Division Manager

APM Terminals Gothenburg; California (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Division Manager – Final Mile Operations to oversee multiple final-mile delivery locations. This role provides direct leadership to site management teams and is the primary point of accountability for meeting service, safety, compliance, capacity, and financial targets.

You will identify risks, develop solutions, and drive execution with a high degree of independence. Pay range is $100,000-$125,000 annually, with starting salary aligned to market conditions and location.

Qualifications

• Lead site management and final mile operations across multiple locations.
• Develop strong client relationships and conduct regular business reviews.
• Ensure compliance, background checks, licenses, COIs, and safety requirements.
• Own site P&L, labor and contractor costs, and billing accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Own performance across final mile locations including service KPIs, route execution, delivery quality, productivity, capacity, and customer experience.
• Develop strong relationships with client leadership and lead recurring business reviews; provide recovery plans when needed.
• Forecast capacity needs and manage contractor recruiting to prevent operational risk.
• Ensure comprehensive compliance across locations, including background checks, licenses, and insurance requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop site leaders; establish expectations and succession plans.

Job description

About Us: As a company, we promote a culture of honesty and integrity, and value the trust it allows us to build with customers and employees alike. Our focus on our people is what sets us apart and keeps our customers coming back to work with us! If you are seeking to be a part of a family, this is the place for you! We are an integrated logistics company responsible for moving 20% of global trade annually. With a dedicated team of over 110,000 employees across 130 countries, we go all the way to connect and simplify global trade, and help our customers grow and thrive. Maersk Ground Freight (MGF) offers transportation services like FTL (Full Truckload), LTL (Less Than Truckload), brokerage, cross-border trucking, groupage, and sortation hubs, connecting Maersk or Customer warehouses or depots or cross-dock/consolidation/deconsolidation facilities through a robust network led by best-in-class operations and technology. This integrated network will service multi-channels like B2B, B2C, B2B2C, e-commerce, direct to store, dropship, returns, and more, leveraging asset-based, asset-light, and non-asset models.

Position Summary The Division Manager – Final Mile Operations is responsible for the overall operational, financial, compliance, and client performance of multiple final-mile delivery locations. This role provides direct leadership to site management teams and serves as the primary point of accountability for ensuring each operation meets established service, safety, compliance, capacity, and financial expectations. The Division Manager is expected to operate with a high level of independence and ownership—proactively identifying risks, developing solutions, and driving execution without requiring senior leadership to identify issues or establish corrective action plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational Performance & KPIs: Own performance across assigned locations, including service KPIs, route execution, delivery quality, productivity, capacity, customer experience, and other contractual requirements. Analyze trends, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions before issues escalates.
• Client Management: Develop strong relationships with client leadership, lead recurring business reviews, respond to concerns and escalations, and ensure commitments are completed timely. Maintain proactive communication and provide clear recovery plans when performance falls below expectations.
• Contractor Capacity & Recruiting: Maintain an accurate contractor recruiting and capacity pipeline for each location. Forecast future capacity needs based on volume and business requirements, partner with Procurement on onboarding, and ensure adequate qualified delivery teams are available before capacity becomes an operational risk.
• Compliance: Maintain a comprehensive compliance process across all assigned locations. Ensure contractors and service workers meet applicable requirements, including background checks, drug screens, MVRs, licensing, insurance/COIs, and other required documentation. Track expiration dates, follow outstanding items through completion, and ensure compliance issues are addressed proactively.
• People Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and hold site leaders accountable for performance. Establish clear expectations, conduct regular performance discussions, develop leadership capability, address performance concerns timely, and build succession plans for critical positions.
• Financial & Billing Management: Maintain ownership and understanding of site P&Ls, labor and contractor costs, billing accuracy, invoice reconciliation, short pays/rejections, expenses, and other financial drivers. Identify opportunities to improve profitability while maintaining service expectations.
• Reporting & Business Visibility: Ensure operational reports, KPI scorecards, recruiting trackers, compliance records, financial reporting, and action plans are accurate, complete, current, and provide leadership with appropriate visibility into business performance and risk.
• Safety & Risk Management: Promote a strong safety culture and ensure safety incidents, property damage, claims, and operational risks are appropriately investigated, documented, escalated, and addressed.
• Administrative & Leadership Approvals: Maintain timely oversight of employee timecards, PTO requests, expense reports, Workday actions, staffing requests, performance documentation, and other Division Manager-level approvals.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce costs, increase productivity, strengthen compliance, and improve the customer and delivery-team experience. Develop solutions that can be standardized across multiple locations when appropriate.

Pay Range: $100,000-$125,000 annually *The above-stated pay range is the anticipated starting salary range for the position. The Company may adjust this range in light of prevailing market conditions and other factors such as location. The Company will work directly with the selected candidate(s) on the final starting salary in accordance with all applicable laws.

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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A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world.