Port Agency Operations Manager Mauritius

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.

Mission:

To manage the Operations, Logistics, Transshipment, Cargo Operations and M&R departments

Main responsibilities

Fully accountable to adequately manage in close coordination with the team
- Vessel operations
- Logistics and M&R
- Transshipments
- Cargo Operations

Process Improvement for Operations/Logistics/ Transshipment/Cargo Operations department.
- Constantly improve methods and tools through application of Process Excellence principle.
Fully accountable for Operations and Logistics team management
- Monitor that Ops Team ensure that any operation costs to have the necessary back emails e.g. crew change / surveyor nomination etc. attached when supplying invoice to accounts department to validate on the system.
- To ensure equipment availability to meet import/export requirement with a constant concern of optimization of the container fleet within the country, in coordination with Sales and HO/RO Logistics
- To manage and control Logistics and M&R expenses
- To ensure that contracts with depots, trucking companies and any other logistics providers are re-negotiated on regular basis with the objective of constantly decreasing costs
- To provide recommendations to management for service enhancement by setting evaluation parameters
- To set and implement strategic policy that aims at maintaining and enhancing the performance in whole equipment flow. Not only from perspective in the logistic point of view, but also should be capable to stand on behalf of whole commercial benefits
- To act in order to reduce then to maintain at limited level idle containers (full and empties) in Mauritius
- To monitor and ensure all logistics KPIs as set out by HO/RO are met as per the time frame set

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !