Join Maersk in Chennai, India as an MGF Contract/Rate Management Team Leader on a full-time basis for US shifts. You will lead a team, manage the Lead to Agreement (LTA) process, act as an OTMS Superuser, and drive continuous improvement and testing for deployment.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in commerce, finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field.
Relevant experience in contract/rate management, including prior experience leading or supervising a team.
Preferred: Exposure to Agile or continuous improvement practices.
Skills & Responsibilities
Team leadership: Manage work allocation, performance, capacity planning, coaching, and mentoring to develop team members.
Process and rate management: Utilize expertise in Contract/Rate Management and LTA processes to troubleshoot issues and map E2E workflows.
Agile and continuous improvement: Apply methods such as sprints, backlog management, retrospectives, Lean, and Kaizen to lead teams effectively.
Data analysis and reporting: Pull reports, analyze process flaws, test E2E files, and provide accurate project updates to leadership.
Potential transition routes: People from operations supervisory or logstics project management roles may bring transferable leadership and process mapping skills alongside meeting the required contract management background.
Job description
Key Responsibilities:
OTMS Superuser in the LTA domain
Solution Oriented. Troubleshoot rate related issues and identify process gaps
Horizontal stitching of the E2E process, able to understand process maps and create IOP/SOP
Lead a team: Project analysis and provide data inputs to colleagues for successful parallel run, testing, and deployment of Oracle TMS for remaining HBDS customers.
Testing E2E files, Process Flows, Data flows, and reporting capabilities, and Control effectiveness
Should be able to pull reports and analyse process flaws
Ensure accurate and qualitative process updates and project updates to the leadership
Share feedback to strengthen user experience, process experience, and customer experience outcomes
Align & Seek guidelines for KPI’s and process flow directions from the Project team and GPL’s
Key Skills & Competencies:
Strong understanding of Contract/ Rate Management and Lead to Agreement (LTA) process execution
Proven team management and people leadership skills, including work allocation, performance management, and capacity planning
Coaching, mentoring, and feedback skills to develop team members
Experience applying Agile and continuous improvement methods (e.g., sprints, backlog, retrospectives, Lean/Kaizen) to lead teams
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with effective stakeholder and escalation management
Change management, conflict resolution, and strong communication skills, including reporting to leadership
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree in commerce, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
Relevant experience in Contract/ Rate Management, including prior experience leading or supervising a team; exposure to Agile or continuous improvement practices is preferred
Shift Timings:
US Shift
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