Lead Logistics Product Manager – Southern & Eastern Africa

Job Description

Would you like to be part of a value-driven, commercially oriented international environment where we enable global trade every day? We have an opportunity for a Lead Logistics Product Manager to join our team in South Africa.

The Lead Logistics Product Manager will be responsible for driving the growth and P&L performance of the Lead Logistics business within the Southern Africa & Islands (SAI) and Eastern African Areas (EAA) in line with the global strategy and area business plans.

WHAT WE OFFER:

When you join Maersk, you’ll find that the world is your workplace. You’ll work in a culturally diverse, stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of doing things. We believe in individual performance within highly professional teams supported by our distinctive values. To us teamwork means acceptance, respect, dedication, and the idea that we can achieve more when we all pull together.

Living our values means competing in the marketplace in an ethical way so our name is synonymous with being a credible and valuable business partner. Through Constant Care and Humbleness, we strive to prepare for the future, while never forgetting that our customers and competitors are key to our ability to improve. In our daily work Uprightness and Our Employees mean that transparency and accountability in everything we do go hand in hand with being an inspiring, challenging place to work. At Maersk, we take pride in hiring the best person for the job – irrespective of gender, age, nationality, or religious belief.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Develop and execute the Area plan for Lead Logistics in line with Global & Regional strategy:

• Develop a clear Area plan for how to drive the Lead Logistics business forward across customer segments, verticals, countries and products.

• Drive the Area Lead Logistics go-to-market strategy including customization or localization, sales enablement, marketing and customer experience.

Drive Lead Logistics growth:

• Maintain and grow existing business through successful contract renewals with expanded geographical and/or service scope.

• Collaborate closely with the Global and Regional Lead Logistics community and Sales & Marketing teams to ensure effective targeting and penetration.

• Monitor the Lead Logistics sales pipeline and as necessary drive inflow, velocity and win rate via Area Sales Managers.

• Analyze market and guide sales with key pursuits, both for accounts controlled within the area but also pursuits controlled in other regions

• Provide product management, subject matter expertise, solution engineering & pricing support to relevant opportunities to achieve required profitable growth.

• Personally, and actively, support strategic pursuits to maximize win-rate, including attending key client meetings.

• Lead local product development and localization of global products to meet specific prioritized customer needs.

• Support the development of sales capabilities in the region by providing product training, value selling coaching etc.

Responsible for Area Lead Logistics P&L:

• Drive ambitious realistic targets and follow through with initiatives and performance management to achieve them.

Be an active participant within the Global & Regional Lead Logistics Community:

• Capture and share knowledge / best practices throughout the organization to support short- and long-term success

• Speak up and share both supportive and critical views in a way that fosters a dynamic and engaging pursuit of continuous improvement

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Someone with:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Logistics or Supply Chain Management

• At least 5 -7 years’ experience in supply chain management

• Extensive supply chain and logistics network knowledge

• Good knowledge of MS Office and experience working with data analysis tools, AI and automation is highly preferred

• Well-developed stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Strong understanding of commercial solution sales process

• Expertise within key customer verticals

• Problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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