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Coordinate inland shipments by rail, truck, barge, and feeder vessel; handle customer inquiries; arrange transport bookings; manage cargo release, customs, and dwell-time issues; liaise with vendors, terminals, legal/insurance, and internal teams to ensure timely, cost-effective intermodal operations and claims documentation.

Manages accounts receivable activities, including customer collections, dispute resolution, credit-limit monitoring, account reconciliation, check posting, refunds, statements, reporting, and delinquency escalation. The role also responds to customer inquiries, coordinates internally to resolve payment issues, and follows company accounting policies and procedures.

Coordinate transshipment execution across areas, ports, terminals, feeders, vendors, and customer service teams. Plan and assign connections, align capacity with cargo volumes, manage schedule changes and rollovers, arrange haulage and storage, create feeder work orders and transport exceptions, update shipment systems, and communicate inspections and additional charges. The role requires systematic analytical thinking, maritime or logistics knowledge, strong communication, negotiation skills, and fluent English.

Build and maintain customer relationships, assess account growth opportunities, promote Hapag-Lloyd digital products, prepare competitive rate proposals, monitor customer business and quotations, and provide market feedback. The role supports growth accounts, achieves core performance indicators, resolves customer challenges, and delivers responsive, customer-focused service in a commercial logistics environment.

Build and manage customer relationships, evaluate account growth opportunities, promote Hapag-Lloyd digital products, prepare competitive rate proposals, monitor customer business and quotations, track KPIs, and provide market feedback. The role focuses on developing customers into key accounts while identifying challenges and delivering solutions in a commercial logistics environment.

Leads cost control activities by ensuring accurate standard costs, analyzing transportation and terminal cost changes, identifying root causes, and supporting pricing and shipment profitability decisions. Coaches team members, drives automation, coordinates cost-saving initiatives, maintains FIS catalogues, prepares management reporting, and presents departmental performance metrics. Requires strong Excel skills, attention to detail, analytical ability, and clear communication with management and operational stakeholders.

Executes daily empty-container planning and repositioning across vessels, barges, feeders, rail, and truck. Maintains equipment inventory accuracy, creates shipments and work orders, monitors overdue equipment, coordinates with terminals and operations teams, updates reports and dashboards, manages customs documentation, reviews invoices, controls positioning costs, and supports vendor performance monitoring. Analyzes discrepancies and escalates exceptions to supervisors without supervisory responsibilities.

Monitors transport, port, and terminal costs to establish accurate standard costs for pricing and shipment profitability analysis. Identifies cost drivers and root causes, communicates insights to Operations and Commercial teams, analyzes vendor costs and volumes, and supports savings initiatives. Serves as a subject matter expert for assigned logistics cost categories and oversees maintenance of FIS catalogues.

Supervises the accounts receivable team, overseeing collections, key customer accounts, refunds, workload management, reporting, issue resolution, training, and employee development. Ensures compliance with company accounting procedures, minimizes bad-debt exposure, supports departmental strategy, and applies policies consistently. The role also assists management with performance reporting, process improvements, complex disputes, and operational decision-making.

Leads full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessments, offer extensions, candidate communication, referral programs, pipeline tracking, and hiring-manager coordination. Develops recruitment strategies, builds talent pipelines, represents the company at recruiting events, maintains confidential records, supports regulatory reporting, and ensures compliance with employment laws. Requires strong organization, communication, prioritization, problem-solving, confidentiality, and Microsoft Office skills.