Project Director Permanent

DCSA

In April 2019, DCSA was founded by, MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, Yang Ming, HMM, and ZIM, to establish IT standards that would enable interoperability of technology solutions across the industry. https://dcsa.org/about-us-our-work-and-what-we-do-dcsa/members/

The purpose is to facilitate digital interconnectivity and seamless data communication that anyone who touches the industry can leverage. DCSA standards are developed in close conjunction with the member carriers who validate, align and agree to them and work with DCSA to ensure widespread adoption.

Description

We are looking for a contractor to create an impact through our Project Director role. In this role, you will be instrumental in helping us achieve our ambitious goal of driving the adoption of electronic bills of lading (eBL). You will have once in a lifetime opportunity to shape the future of the global container shipping industry in a more efficient and sustainable direction by applying your skills and passion to digital transformation. Within the eBL initiative within our Digital Trade value stream, this role will engage, support, and drive the implementation and rollout of the eBL for the world’s largest ocean carriers.

Role

As a Project Director, you will be working with a team of internal consultants and external subject matter experts from across the industry and the world. You will play a key role in driving the adoption and implementation of the eBL within. To be successful in this role, you will need to be an analytical and detail-oriented person as the challenges you will solve are complex and require you to collect, manage and disseminate information from several stakeholders at once.

The ideal candidate will have container shipping experience related to international trade, therefore a solid understanding of how the documentation process works. In order to successfully influence your stakeholders your stakeholder management and communication skills need to be superb, as you will juggle between fostering internal and external project participants and elevating the quality of our output.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a template for carrier adoption plans
• Support carriers with the creation of their internal adoption plans
• Align the plans across carriers
• Develop and implement an implementation & rollout progress reporting structure, and maintain and manage reporting statuses from the carriers
• Drive the execution of the adoption plans
• Identify challenges and risks and propose solutions for mitigation[GU3]
• Propose segmentation (e.g. corridors, industries, BCOs, commodities, etc. for roll-out)

Requirements:

• Senior project management experience
• Extensive stakeholder management skills
• Analytical problem solver
• Self-starter and proactive mindset
• Knowledge & experience in shipping and/or logistics