Shipping Development Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Monitor marine market trends, analyzing and defining short and long-term marine transportation options to develop optimal product delivery strategies.

• Identify optimal vessels, negotiate rates and short and long-term charter party terms.

• Define all commercial and contractual details for negotiated charter party terms.

• Develop and provide market research on vessel availability and freight economics, terminal projects and shipping competitors.

• Coordinate closely with schedulers to nominate tonnage in a manner that will optimize system freight costs, minimize demurrage and ensure timely delivery of cargoes.

• Communicate and liaise with shipowners and utility companies, and network and maintain relationships with market players to keep abreast of market developments and opportunities.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to build a fundamental shipping model in order enable strategy decisions.

• Coordinate, analyze, and prepare transportation plan documents, ensuring quality and completion.

• Coordinate and analyze shipping operations expenses calculation and review, covering fuel-bunker and ship maintenance.

• Coordinate, monitor and analyze fuel bunker consumption, ship maintenance, dry-docking and activity to ensure all processes are completed effectively.

• Coordinate and analyze the consolidation of information and reports on issues during loading, sailing and discharging to ensure availability of timely reports.

• Coordinate and participate in compatibility studies between ship and shore for buyers' terminal to ensure all requirements and conditions are incorporated for effective and efficient shipping operations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Economics or related discipline; an MBA or a relevant advanced degree is strongly preferred.

• At least 15 years of professional experience in commercial shipping roles, with a proven track record of negotiation of long-term charter party agreements.

• Proven ability to analyze market data, develop models, use derivatives and identify commercial opportunities.

• Proven effective negotiating skills and commercial judgment.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with multinational teams.