Transversal Lead, Long Haul Trade
About this role
Job Responsibilities
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.
1. 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.
2. Transversal Trade Management
- 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
Company at a glance
Pacific International Lines (PIL) is among the top 12 container shipping lines in the world. Established in Singapore in 1967, we are the largest home‑grown carrier in Southeast Asia.
We serve customers in over 500 locations, with a focus on Asia, China, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania and the Pacific Islands. Operating a fleet of around 100 container vessels, we provide shipping services and solutions to customers in more than 90 countries worldwide.
Whatever the product – dry, refrigerated, breakbulk or special cargo – we will find a way to ship it in a safe and efficient manner. With our global network of agencies and intermodal corridors, we aim to bring value to our customers through end-to-end transportation.
At PIL, we are driving connectivity for our customers and partners with markets and communities. Our people-centric approach puts customers first, by leveraging expertise and technology to provide efficient and sustainable solutions.
We supplement our core liner shipping business with container manufacturing and logistics services to provide solutions across the supply chain.
Guided by a future-focused vision, we are committed to sustainability and making a positive impact on communities. For more information, visit www.pilship.com
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