Freight Forwarding - Customer Solutions Engineer, Aid & Relief - Maersk Project Logistics

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs +100,000 people.
With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world.

When you join Maersk, you will find that the world is your workplace.
You will work in a culturally diverse, performance stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of doing things.

We – Maersk Projects Logistics - are now recruiting for a Customer Solutions Engineer for our Aid & Relief Operations team. If you have a passion for global logistics, staying close to our customers and will be motivated by building complex logistics solutions, often in a fast-paced environment and equally important, you see yourself as a team player, then this job is for you!

We offer:

Working at Maersk brings a unique blend of being part of a rich heritage and an enthusiastic, youthful, fast-paced logistics company. We believe in rewarding and recognizing individual performances within highly professional teams supported by our distinctive values.
Collaborative and commercial mindsets are the key cornerstones of being a high performer in Maersk. Ours being a network business, it is key that you can think and act beyond your own domain and geography of work. By commercial mindset we mean your ability to think of the benefits for the customer; in whatever action, you take, irrespective of your position and role.

When you join our team, you join a truly diverse, global organization in a fast-moving, values-based, work environment where you can grow on the job, create and shape our solutions, tap into industry-leading talent development initiatives, enjoy working with your colleagues and broaden your world view through our international job postings.

Key Responsibilities:

As Customer Solutions Engineer in Maersk Project Logistics you will be part of a winning team with high growth ambitions within Aid & Relief. You’ll be working closely with the Operations Manager and Business Development Team to address the customer’s requirements with cost-effective, high-quality end to end logistics solutions which can be effectively implemented and executed.

In this role you will:

• Manage the tender bidding process and co-ordinate with colleagues to ensure a comprehensive and competitive offer is submitted to the customers.
• Build and create technical transport solutions via sea, air, road, rail, and charter with support and knowledge-sharing from your colleagues.
• You will develop and prepare new logistics concepts and value propositions based on identified best technical and organizational solutions.

Who We are looking for:

Our ideal candidate is a self-driven person with a can-do attitude, well organized as well as being able to stay calm in a hectic and complex environment. You strive in a collaborative role being the trusted partner and making things happen. We value our unique team and are looking for someone who shares our vision of teamwork being the backbone of everything we do. The ideal candidate understands our customer needs and is driven by offering world-class integrator solutions that brings value to our customers.

The strong candidate has:

• Relevant experience from freight forwarding, shipping, logistics or similar. Experience within Aid & Relief is an advantage, but not a requirement
• High understanding of crosstrade and incoterms
• Experience in account management
• Excellent communication skills, including both verbal and written in English
• A collaborative mindset with a “can do” attitude
• Relationship building skills, both with customers but also internal stakeholders
• High-level logistics product understanding including how it solves different customer pains

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Don’t wait—submit your application today.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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