Senior Director - Supply Chain Engineering - APAC

The Senior Director - Supply Chain Engineering & Commercial Solutions plays a pivotal role in shaping the region's commercial, product, and business development strategy. This leader drives innovation across supply chain and logistics solutions, orchestrates cross‑functional collaboration, and ensures that DP World's commercial offerings are competitive, scalable, and aligned with customer needs. As both a strategist and hands‑on operator, the Director is responsible for advancing APAC's product vision, supporting business growth, and leading complex solution design to enhance customer value and regional performance.

In addition, this role provides deep expertise and leadership for large‑scale, complex supply chain solution projects. The Director leverages extensive experience in supply chain operations, logistics, project governance, and commercial modeling to optimize value‑chain integration and overall organizational performance.

Key Accountabilities:

• Align product, commercial, and business development strategies with regional and global business goals.
• Lead product discovery, market research, and competitive analysis to ensure solutions meet customer needs and deliver measurable value.
• Drive innovation and new solution development, including modern supply chain technologies, tools, and advanced ways of working.
• Provide expertise, guidance, and leadership on large‑scale, complex supply chain solution projects that improve value‑chain integration and performance.
• Develop end‑to‑end commercial offers and proposals with Business Units, including pricing models and solution architecture.
• Analyze complex supply chain data, identify trends or patterns, and apply experience to solve difficult business and operational problems.
• Oversee the quality and rigor of output from analysis and solution teams, ensuring accuracy and strong commercial grounding.
• Lead cross‑functional workshops to gather requirements, align stakeholders, and co‑develop improvement strategies.
• Manage governance across sub‑regional (cluster) teams, ensuring consistency with global standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Oversee project team performance and manage large-scale solution programs within the global supply chain engineering network, balancing stakeholder needs, timelines, and business objectives.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain, Transport, Logistics, or related field.
• 10+ years in supply chain, logistics, transport, or freight forwarding, ideally within a defined industry vertical.
• Proven sales track record and ability to consistently meet commercial targets.
• Strong experience designing complex, multi‑capability supply chain solution.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing teams, projects, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Proven success delivering large, complex supply chain or logistics projects with high accuracy and quality.
• Deep understanding of supply chain processes, cost drivers, commercial models, and DP World capabilities.
• Exceptional analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills- written, verbal, presentation - with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Strong time‑management able to work under pressure, prioritize effectively, and maintain high attention to detail.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and comfortable working globally across cultures.
• Self‑motivated, proactive, collaborative, discreet, and flexible to travel 30-50% internationally.

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About DP World

DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 115,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

In Asia Pacific, DP World employs over 15,000 people across 22 geographies. We operate 17 ports and terminals, complemented by a comprehensive suite of end-to-end supply chain solutions - to connect the region to the rest of the world.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

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