Assistant Manager, Trade Development and Planning, Strategy

Job Responsibilities

Job summary: Contribute to the development and refinement of the company's long-term liner business strategic plan and collaborate with senior leadership and internal stakeholders from Trades and Network departments to harness their strategic vision and industry expertise. Assume a lead role for a single workstream, structuring approaches and orchestrating the combined efforts of the team across all phases – from initial research and comprehensive analysis (qualitative and quantitative) to planning and execution. Deliver impactful recommendations that drive sustained profitability and growth, ensuring the liner business remains a cornerstone of the company's long-term success.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and implementing liner's strategic plan
• Structure, lead and contribute to strategic studies and initiatives for PIL Liner
• Lead preparation of presentation slides and status updates for relevant stakeholders
• Gain insights into the performance of the business and recommend improvements, through analysis of internal and external sources of data (e.g., LMS, Anaplan, Container Trade Statistics, Accenture Cargo)
• Track progress of strategic initiatives and workflow initiatives with business analytics team to develop dashboards and presentations
• Manage external subscriptions where TDP is the business owner (e.g., Container Trade Statistics, Drewry Container Forecaster, Dynamar)
• Lead workstream related to the Demand portion of Line Management's Monthly Monitor reporting by working closely with Trades to analyze datasets. Collaborate with the Supply side workstream to synthesize Supply & Demand to generate insights on the overall impact on freight rates.
• Any other ad-hoc duties or projects related to line management strategic planning & advanced analytics as assigned by supervisor
  
  

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Economics, Business, Accounting, or related disciplines of a quantitative nature
• Prior relevant working experience
• Experience with project management methodologies is a plus
• Business/Functional/Industry knowledge (e.g., Supply Chain, Pricing/Trades, Network Planning, Commercial, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excel for data analysis (e.g., Pivot Tables, PowerQuery)
• Dashboarding tools (e.g., PowerBI or Tableau)
• Familiarity with SQL, Python or R is a plus