Main Purpose of the Role:
The employee will work in the Regional Logistics department and report to the Equipment Manager. This position requires excel proficiency to assist in daily report updating to support commercial and operational teams. These reports are used by commercial and equipment teams to make business decisions.
Major Areas of Responsiblity:
Regularly compile company KPI’s and reports to support equipment team and district offices with day to day work processes. Identify areas in need of improvement and develop reports to increase efficiency. Look for creative ways to decrease costs by properly managing container movements within the US.
Main Tasks:
- Coordinate with local equipment teams to properly manage stock levels.
- Act as a liaison between local equipment teams and internal Norfolk departments as needed to resolve problems.
- Compare costs for multiple evacuations routes and present in a meaningful way.
- Produce daily, weekly, & monthly Logistics reports such as stock reports, idling equipment, out to client containers, movement trends, equipment forecasts, and logistics expenses.
- Coordinate yearly equipment reconciling within the area to ensure accurate stock counts in our electronic system.
- Ability to troubleshoot and research report solutions to for reporting errors.
- Support marketing, customer service, and branch offices as needed to problem solve and review new potential new business.
- Work with local logistics teams to research idle equipment within the US.
- Monitoring stock levels and looking for solutions to increase equipment efficiencies.
- Negotiate and coordinate domestic repositioning with vendors.
- Analyze street turn activity.
- Add and update depot rates in SAP system to ensure auto purchase orders can generate without discrepancies.
Bachelor’s Degree; one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Intermediate experience in Microsoft Excel—
Basics- reporting, formatting, sorting, filtering, creating charts, graphs, and pivot tables.
Intermediate to advanced experience with functions
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree, one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel proficiency, including reporting, formatting, sorting, filtering, charts, graphs, and pivot tables
- Intermediate to advanced experience with Excel functions
What We Do
Launched in Israel in 1945, ZIM (NYSE:ZIM) became a pioneer in container shipping in the early 1970’s, and has established itself as a leading global, asset-light container liner shipping company. We provide customers with innovative seaborne transportation and logistics services, covering the world’s major trade routes and focusing on select markets where we have competitive advantages and are able to maximize our market position. ZIM’s unique strategy as a digital-oriented, asset-light, global niche carrier offers distinctive advantages, allowing the company to provide innovative and premium customer-centric services while maximizing profitability. Through this focused strategy, enhanced digital tools, and a reputation as a top industry performer with high schedule reliability and service quality, ZIM is positioned to continue to expand its leadership and achieve best-in-class margins.
