Jobs at Maersk Line

WHAT WE OFFER

• This one-year entry-level programme provides participants with exposure to the workplace and an opportunity to develop essential workplace capabilities. Successful candidates will be based in a world-class environment within one of our South African offices. During this programme, they will gain valuable workplace experience and skills, fostering a market-driven, operationally focused, and customer-centric mindset in our day-to-day business operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learners will take on support responsibilities across different business functions. These responsibilities play a crucial role in ensuring the effective operation of the function and offer accelerated and practical work experience.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Programme eligibility:

• South African citizenship
• Completed Grade 12 or Matric certificate
• Additional tertiary qualifications advantageous
• Should not be permanently employed
• Should not have more than 2 years’ work experience
• Should be between the ages of 18 - 30 years
• Commitment to the 12-month programme
• Must not have completed a YES Learnership previously
• A strong academic record
• Strong computer literacy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly
• Good time management
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• A positive attitude

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WHAT WE OFFER

• This one-year entry-level programme provides participants with exposure to the workplace and an opportunity to develop essential workplace capabilities. Successful candidates will be based in a world-class environment within one of our South African offices. During this programme, they will gain valuable workplace experience and skills, fostering a market-driven, operationally focused, and customer-centric mindset in our day-to-day business operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learners will take on support responsibilities across different business functions. These responsibilities play a crucial role in ensuring the effective operation of the function and offer accelerated and practical work experience.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Programme eligibility:

• South African citizenship
• Completed Grade 12 or Matric certificate
• Additional tertiary qualifications advantageous
• Should not be permanently employed
• Should not have more than 2 years’ work experience
• Should be between the ages of 18 - 30 years
• Commitment to the 12-month programme
• Must not have completed a YES Learnership previously
• A strong academic record
• Strong computer literacy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly
• Good time management
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• A positive attitude

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WHAT WE OFFER

• This one-year entry-level programme provides participants with exposure to the workplace and an opportunity to develop essential workplace capabilities. Successful candidates will be based in a world-class environment within one of our South African offices. During this programme, they will gain valuable workplace experience and skills, fostering a market-driven, operationally focused, and customer-centric mindset in our day-to-day business operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learners will take on support responsibilities across different business functions. These responsibilities play a crucial role in ensuring the effective operation of the function and offer accelerated and practical work experience.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Programme eligibility:

• South African citizenship
• Completed Grade 12 or Matric certificate
• Additional tertiary qualifications advantageous
• Should not be permanently employed
• Should not have more than 2 years’ work experience
• Should be between the ages of 18 - 30 years
• Commitment to the 12-month programme
• Must not have completed a YES Learnership previously
• A strong academic record
• Strong computer literacy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly
• Good time management
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• A positive attitude

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• The Growth Enablement Manager will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining solutions required to efficiently respond to complex, multi-regional, multi-modal customer requests for quote (RFQ) representing the Air Freight product within the Southern Africa & Islands (SAI) Area. This individual will also be expected to liaise with product experts worldwide and provide an efficient conduit that will facilitate expert guidance and product strategy to affect our price offers to clients through the development of logical pricing processes and technology.

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:

• Execute the Air Freight product strategic initiatives for the growth within the Area to the annual budgeted revenues and volumes.
• Participate in and contribute to establishing the go-to-market and Pricing strategy of the product.
• Lead and execute the price setting process across the product in line with the product pricing strategy, including pricing for large strategic RFQ opportunities.
• Lead and execute the go-to-market process of the product in line with the go-to-product market strategy.
• Consolidate and share market information including market development, competition, customer and pricing trends.
• Participate in and contribute to the annual sales target setting process for the product engaging with Finance and Sales.
• Compile (in cooperation with Region/Area stakeholders) the annual growth plan initiatives needed to deliver the annual budgeted growth in GP & volumes.
• Ensure consistent monthly delivery of budgeted GP and volume numbers for the product by active monitoring of the global sales pipeline including achieved business wins and conversion ratios across all sales channels.
• Proactive engagement with the sales enablement team and/or with regional/area product heads to agree on corrective actions to turn around negative GP deviation or accelerated positive GP deviation.
• Key driver for Power Trade Lane tractions / Growth.
• Jointly with the product BPO ensure updated product sales material is maintained and made available to all relevant recipients.
• Jointly with the BPO create and conduct product training material and events as required by sales and product stakeholders.
• Provide input as required to the QED process for launch of new products as required.
• Provide product input for marketing and commercial activities.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Someone with:

• Extensive technical knowledge of the Air Freight product including proven experience in product pricing and go-to-market strategies (non-negotiable)
• Experience in customer-facing engagements and presentations
• Understanding of the key profitability drivers in logistics and supply chain management
• Strong ability to facilitate cross-functional decision-making and execution
• Strong focus on business outcomes – results-driven
• Strong process-oriented approach to work and excellent attention to detail

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Opportunity

• 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 Solution Design Engineer to join our team in South Africa. As a Solution Design Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering warehouse solution design process in the Africa region for customer pursuits that require cost-effective, high quality warehousing solutions which can be effectively implemented and executed.

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:

• You will be responsible for owning solution design, costing, and pricing in the African (South, East and West areas) region, and where necessary take the lead to:
• Capture core data and assumptions that are required to design, cost and price the solution for the customer including the establishment of a process for capturing all customer insights that might be relevant for this pursuit or future upselling opportunities.
• Develop detailed designs for the solution incorporating the scope of services, operating model, resource models, operating cost estimates, recommended selling price, estimated value for the client and draft P&L for Maersk.
• Calculate warehouse size based on throughput and product data mainly provided as part of a customer RFQ.
• Create warehouse process flows for key activities including receiving, put-away, picking, packing and dispatch to maximize productivity.
• Calculate activity productivity targets to support resource and activity-based costing models.
• Create warehouse throughput simulation models using CLASS software to visualize warehouse operations, throughputs, and alternatives.
• Be an active participant within the Global Contract Logistics Solution Design Community:
• Capture and share knowledge / best practices throughout the organization to support short and long-term success.
• 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:

• At least 4 years’ experience in the design of fulfilment (b2b and b2c) solutions.  Experience in Cold Storage and Transportation will be an advantage
• Bachelor’s degree with preference for industrial engineering, operations, or logistics discipline
• Highly experienced in designing solutions for core warehousing and distribution focus verticals (retail, lifestyle, technology, FMCG and automotive)
• Highly competent in creating warehouse layouts and simulation models using CLASS and AutoCAD software
• Extremely skilled warehouse solution engineer with a deep understanding of making process changes on productivity and financials
• Exposure of working in warehouse or logistics operations including implementation or customer solution support is beneficial
• Innovative in reaching conclusions and making recommendations based on limited and/or ambiguous data
• Proficient in English both spoken and written