Container Sales Manager - West Africa at Maersk Line

Maersk Line is the world's largest container shipping company, serving customers all across the globe. Maersk Line has 25,000 employees across 325 offices in more than 125 countries. As a leading provider of container shipping services, Maersk Line’s mission is to provide opportunities in global commerce. Maersk Line helps customers source goods from anywhere in the world, creating efficiencies in their supply chains, and making it possible for commodities to reach new markets more quickly. Maersk Line sets the standards in ensuring continuous and consistent reliable and quality service to its customers and is regarded amongst the most reliable carriers in the world.

The Maersk Group comprises A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S and subsidiaries based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Group employs about 89,000 people in around 135 countries across the world.

Join Maersk Line Operations - the engine room of our global activities with the world at your desk. The position, which reports directly to Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, will give you a broad insight into the entire Maersk Line Op-erations Organization.

Do you have a real entrepreneurial spirit and see opportunity where others see obstacles? Can you sell, repeatedly, through building a strong network with customers and partners in multiple countries? Can you execute your own sales strategy daily but have the sense to also take a step back to refine your strategy?

If the answer is yes, then you could be one of Maersk Line’s new Container Sales Managers empowered to sell Maersk Line’s out-fleeted containers - a team that are positioned to generate USD100million in revenue within the next 2 years!

We are recruiting for the for the below position:

Job Title: Container Sales Manager - West Africa

Ref.: ML-062218
Location: Lagos

We Offer

• Maersk Line is on a journey to develop new revenue streams, one of which is “out-fleeted” container sales.
• With an ambitious target for delivering significant value to our customers and our company, we are looking to develop Sales Managers who can lead from the front.
• As one of the professional Container Sales Managers in Maersk Line's brand new container sales organization, you will learn the essentials of container shipping industry through daily interaction with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• You will build a very extensive network both externally as well as internally and you will develop the sales skills to allow you to win in a team where above all, results matter.
• You will be responsible for your own markets in West Africa – stretching from Senegal over Nigeria to Congo.

Learning Opportunities:

• Further develop your sales and networking skills
• Strategy setting and execution both short and long term
• Diverse stakeholder management
• Great insight into fundamental operational aspects of shipping
• The location of the applicant can be anywhere within the scope of the sales region and this job may therefore be posted in other countries as well.
• A significant amount of business travel in the region should be expected.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be part of a very result driven team where your key role will be to ensure that containers planned for retirement are sold quickly and at the best possible price.
• In your designated geographical area, you will be in charge of building and maintaining a solid customer and supplier network, and you will be responsible for collecting market intelligence.
• With the rest of the sales team, you will be involved in setting the container sales strategy. You will carry out the sales and coordinate invoicing and operational planning with the relevant support functions.
• Ultimately, you will be expected to leverage your entrepreneurial spirit whilst living the Maersk Line values to create opportunities, and close them.

Who we are looking for

• You are either a skilled sales person with an interest in the used container industry or a Technician with knowledge about the container industry looking to develop your commercial savvy.
• You live up to your word and you are able to work independently.
• We require a team player with strong interpersonal skills and who is good at managing many stakeholders.
• You are an excellent networker, and you know how to build and maintain lasting relationships.
• You thrive in a fast moving environment and can cope with tight deadlines.
• Since you will work in a multicultural environment where we communicate in English, you have excellent verbal and written English skills.
• Working knowledge of one or more languages in your region is a definite advantage.

Application Closing Date
29th December, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• As part of our recruitment process, you may be requested to complete two online surveys.
• If you are selected, you will receive these surveys in your e-mail inbox.
• The incumbent must reside in a central location for within the sales region as proximity to the key markets is critical.
• As applications are reviewed on a daily basis, please note, that vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline indicated. Therefore you are kindly advised to apply as early as possible.