MaerskSealand

TPP Control Tower Manager

MaerskSealand$110K — $130K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years in supply chain, ocean or logistics operations with control tower experience.
  • Proven track record managing complex integrated solutions across multiple products or functions.
  • Strong working knowledge of warehouse, CFS operations, ocean allocation, and supply chain flow.
  • Experience designing and implementing operational KPI frameworks.
  • Preferred experience in a peak-season or high-volume environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own cross-product operational coordination for cargo at TPP Hub.
  • Provide end-to-end visibility on cargo flow from inbound to export planning.
  • Translate volume forecasts into MCL resource planning across short, medium, and long-term horizons.
  • Manage job prioritisation during peak periods based on customer priority.
  • Lead resolution for issues in shipment flow and drive improvements afterward.
  • Build and maintain the operational KPI framework, monitoring key performance indicators.
  • Engage stakeholders through governance forums to drive operational decision-making.

Benefits

  • Access to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training in logistics.
  • Dynamic environment working with diverse teams across multiple locations.
  • Engagement with leadership and active involvement in decision-making processes.
Full Job Description

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Operational Coordination

  • Own cross-product coordination for all cargo moving through the TPP Hub, ensuring smooth handoffs between SCM, MCL, LCL, FCL, MCS and Ocean Operations.
  • Maintain end-to-end visibility across the flow: inbound pipeline, import planning from origin to unstuffing at the TPP Hub, inventory position, export planning from stuffing through second-leg vessel departure, customs processes (ZB1, ZB2, CNM, COO) and milestone updates.
  • Translate volume forecasts from SCM and the Hub into MCL resource planning across three horizons: short term (daily capacity for the next 3 weeks), medium term (weekly forecast for the next 2 months) and long term (monthly forecast for the next 612 months).
  • Validate that forecast volumes together with MCL and CX that can actually be executed against real operational capacity, and escalate the gap when they cannot.

Prioritisation and Peak Management

  • During peak periods where MCL resource supply is outstripped by SCM and Hub demand, manage job prioritisation in the daily planning huddle based on the Customer Priority List and inbound/outbound criticality.
  • Actively manage inbound and outbound balance to protect warehouse capacity, intervening before inventory accumulation constrains the operation.
  • Lead troubleshooting for unhappy-flow scenarios on individual shipments, and drive the structural improvement plan with relevant stakeholders once the immediate issue is contained.

KPI Governance and Early Warning

  • Design, build and own the operational KPI framework for the hub 13 including inventory ageing, dwell time, throughput against committed capacity, and inbound/outbound balance.
  • Establish predefined thresholds and escalation triggers so that emerging risks are flagged early and acted upon, rather than escalated once the situation is already critical.
  • Monitor actual performance against committed operational capacity and hold the relevant teams to account where delivery falls short.
  • Engage with CPM to ensure governance on origin routing compliance.
  • Produce clear, evidence-based reporting that allows leadership to see the operational position

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

  • Chair daily and weekly operational governance forums with cross-product stakeholders, driving decisions rather than status updates.
  • Engage individual Customer Programme Managers (CPMs) on account-specific requirements, constraints and priorities, ensuring operational reality is reflected in customer commitments.
  • Manage downstream communication to destination Maersk distribution centres, ensuring visibility of cargo status, delays and recovery actions.
  • Work closely with SCM CX and Ocean Operations on allocation planning, ensuring space availability is aligned to seasonal demand and that allocation shortfalls are anticipated, not discovered.

Continuous Improvement

  • Partner with the Continuous Improvement team to identify recurring failure patterns and design structural fixes.
  • Challenge existing business rules and ways of working where they constrain end-to-end service delivery.
  • Capture and share lessons learned across teams so that improvements hold beyond the individual incident.

We19re Looking For

Experience

  • Minimum 10 years in supply chain, ocean or logistics operations, with demonstrable experience in a control tower, hub operations or cross-functional coordination role.
  • Proven track record managing complex integrated solutions across multiple products or functions.
  • Strong working knowledge of warehouse and CFS operations, ocean allocation and end-to-end supply chain flow.
  • Experience designing and implementing operational KPI frameworks, not only reporting against existing ones.
  • Prior experience in a peak-season or high-volume environment is strongly preferred.

Capabilities

  • Independent operator with strong critical thinking 13 able to interrogate assumptions, challenge numbers that do not hold up, and form a view without waiting for direction.
  • Able to connect the dots across disparate signals and anticipate downstream consequences of upstream decisions.
  • Comfortable resolving issues in a live operational environment under time pressure.
  • Confident communicator across levels and cultures, able to influence without direct authority in a matrix organisation.
  • Analytically capable 13 comfortable building and interpreting operational data to support decisions.
  • Collaborative and credible with operational teams, with the resilience to hold a difficult position when the situation requires it.

About MaerskSealand

Maersk Sealand is a Danish shipping company that provides container shipping services. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Maersk Sealand is a subsidiary of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, a global conglomerate that operates in various industries including shipping, logistics, and energy. Maersk Sealand has a fleet of over 700 vessels and serves clients in various industries including retail, automotive, and healthcare.
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