Procurement Officer, Intermodal

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

Summary
In this role, you will be responsible for providing support to the Asia Regional Procurement Manager (ARP) in formulating and implementation of procurement strategies by providing analytic and tools support such as supply and demand, cost analysis, vendor review for trucking, rail, barge and domestic feeder (intermodal) and land spending. 
 
Your main responsibilities are, but not limited to:

• Conduct data analysis and detailed comparison and to provide discussion points for manager's review and decision to support contract negotiations. 
• Gather business intelligence data such as market benchmark, historical pricing, suppliers' profile to optimize negotiation strategy
• Assist ARP team in maintaining the contracts and rates database in Asia covering functions of intermodal and land services.
• Participate and support analysis of RFQs and cost benchmarking for intermodal and land spending. 
• Prepare managerial report on cost analysis, negotiation status etc, when required.
• Track and report ARP's KPI achievement for intermodal and land spend periodically. Pre-alert and highlight variance when necessary 
• Monitor and report on vendors' performance through key performance indicators periodically.
• Develop analytical tools as necessary
• Liaise with various- departments such as Lines, Cost Control, Agencies to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all data for decision making.

 
To perform well in this role, you should possess great data analytical mindset, strong organisational skills.
 
Minimum Requirement:

• Degree in relevant discipline 
• At least 1 to 3 years of experience within the maritime or logistics industry 
• Experience in container shipping operations or procurement would be advantageous
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel (i.e. vlookup and pivot table) and Powerpoint

**This role is opened for local employment only
 
We will only consider applicants who have received, or are willing to receive by the date of recruitment, the full regimen of a WHO EUL vaccine (examples include Pfizer-BioNTech/COMIRNATY, Moderna, Sinovac-CoronaVac, and AstraZeneca). Proof of vaccination will be required.
 
**Salary package (local) & job title shall commensurate with experience.
**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
 
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(i) To process the application for the role being applied for;
(ii) To process the application for other open positions within the CMA CGM Group which may be suitable to you;
(iii) To conduct necessary reference checks; and
(iv) Any other purpose related to one or more of the above.
 
You further consent to the CMA CGM Group retaining such personal information for a period of two years following your submission thereof, so that we may consider you for other open positions within the CMA CGM Group which may be suitable to you in the event that you are not selected for this role.
 
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Please note that CMA CGM Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, CMA CGM Group will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, CMA CGM Group explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of CMA CGM Group.

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