Supply Chain Shipping Manager

Your tasks:

• Your main tasks include the chartering of seagoing vessels, the operational handling of transports, the annual negotiation of our CoAs and the review of Marine Terms. You are also responsible for all our spot negotiation with direct impact of HELMs overall success. You are furthermore responsible for the vetting of our seagoing vessels for HELM.
• You will strengthen and extend our network and relationships with Owners and Brokern in the US
• You will work in a global team with a direct reporting line to your chartering team which is located Hamburg
• You are in constant communication with colleagues and act as an interface to the Product Management of the Business Unit Chemicals as well as to the internal service departments, which are mainly located in Houston
• In this function you are also in charge of the cooperation with suppliers, warehouses, customers and logistic service providers of HELM AG. You will also be visiting these partners on short business trips.
• Moreover, you will be taking over administrative tasks such as the preparation and execution of monthly and annual financial statements or the processing of insurance claims.
• You are a team player and like to contribute to project work for the further development of the business unit.

Your profile:

• You have completed vocational training as a shipping clerk or have a comparable degree with several years of professional experience in the field of chartering.
• You have already acquired technical understanding and knowledge of transports by seagoing vessels in a similar task. Ideally, you are familiar with working with dangerous goods requirements.
• You have advanced negotiation and networking skills
• You have experience in digital communication and collaboration
• You have a fluent command of written and spoken English. Further foreign language skills are an advantage.
• You are proficient in common IT applications such as the MS Office package, ideally you have experience with SAP.
• In the team you act as an open and team-oriented contact person. You enjoy sharing your knowledge and working on possible problems in a solution-oriented manner. In addition, you are flexible and can quickly adapt to new conditions.