Landside Transport Coordinator job at Maersk

Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

Would you like to be part of a value-driven, commercially oriented international environment where we enable global trade every day? We have an opportunity for a Landside Transport Coordinator to join our team in Kampala, Uganda.

Drive efficient execution of landside logistics operations by ensuring optimal empty container tracking, truck circulation, and transport execution, while minimizing cost exposure and delivering high service reliability in line with customer commitments and global SOPs.

WHAT WE OFFER:

When you join Maersk, you'll find that the world is your workplace. You'll work in a culturally diverse, stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of doing things. We believe in individual performance within highly professional teams supported by our distinctive values. To us teamwork means acceptance, respect, dedication, and the idea that we can achieve more when we all pull together.

Living our values means competing in the marketplace in an ethical way so our name is synonymous with being a credible and valuable business partner. Through Constant Care and Humbleness, we strive to prepare for the future, while never forgetting that our customers and competitors are key to our ability to improve. In our daily work Uprightness and Our Employees mean that transparency and accountability in everything we do go hand in hand with being an inspiring, challenging place to work.

At Maersk, we take pride in hiring the best person for the job – irrespective of gender, age, nationality, or religious belief.

Responsibilities or duties

• Providing daily visibility on empty container positions.
• Tracking empty containers from offload to return at designated depots.
• Managing reporting dashboards (empty ageing, return status, export readiness)
• Identifying available trucks for export loading & updating allocation boards
• Communicating daily status updates to CX, Planning, and Operations teams.
• Liaising with Landside vendors on movement plans, priorities, and exceptions
• Manage daily dispatch and logistics execution by ensuring smooth operation / service delivery of client needs by keeping a close track on the service providers and ensuring On Time In Full Delivery (OTIF).
• Ensure local supply chain procedures are in line with global SOP
• Review weekly and monthly client schedules and demand forecasts to estimate peak and delivery timings
• Manage the performance of the distribution and transport service providers to achieve best in class levels of on time in full delivery while ensuring quality standards are met.
• Regular and timely system updates.
• Exception Management with decisive corrective progress actions while proactively managing any changes and contingencies.
• Coordinate and collaborate with customer facing agents to quickly respond to planning amendment, equipment breakdowns or other arising issues
• Proactively coordinate with vendor management team to ensure we have loading capacity to support loading plans.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Experience needed

• 2–3 years of experience in freight forwarding, logistics, transportation, or supply chain operations.
• Experience coordinating transport execution, container movements, or landside logistics activities.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Business Administration, or a related field

Skills

• Good knowledge of logistics processes, transport operations, and supply chain management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and operational systems.
• Conceptual and strategic thinking.
• Business acumen.
• Ability to drive and deliver results.
• Solution oriented.
• Build value-based relationships.
• Analytical ability and problem solving.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

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.

#RPO

• Providing daily visibility on empty container positions.
• Tracking empty containers from offload to return at designated depots.
• Managing reporting dashboards (empty ageing, return status, export readiness)
• Identifying available trucks for export loading & updating allocation boards
• Communicating daily status updates to CX, Planning, and Operations teams.
• Liaising with Landside vendors on movement plans, priorities, and exceptions
• Manage daily dispatch and logistics execution by ensuring smooth operation / service delivery of client needs by keeping a close track on the service providers and ensuring On Time In Full Delivery (OTIF).
• Ensure local supply chain procedures are in line with global SOP
• Review weekly and monthly client schedules and demand forecasts to estimate peak and delivery timings
• Manage the performance of the distribution and transport service providers to achieve best in class levels of on time in full delivery while ensuring quality standards are met.
• Regular and timely system updates.
• Exception Management with decisive corrective progress actions while proactively managing any changes and contingencies.
• Coordinate and collaborate with customer facing agents to quickly respond to planning amendment, equipment breakdowns or other arising issues
• Proactively coordinate with vendor management team to ensure we have loading capacity to support loading plans.

• Good knowledge of logistics processes, transport operations, and supply chain management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and operational systems.
• Conceptual and strategic thinking.
• Business acumen.
• Ability to drive and deliver results.
• Solution oriented.
• Build value-based relationships.
• Analytical ability and problem solving.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

• Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Business Administration, or a related field