Teamlead Charter

As Teamlead Direct Loads, you provide daily leadership to the team and are responsible for the operational results. You monitor planning, progress, quality, and financial performance, and intervene when necessary.

Your duties include

• Daily managing, guiding, and coaching of the planners within the team;
• Distributing tasks and setting operational priorities;
• Monitoring the progress of transports, delivery times, and customer agreements made;
• Supporting complex, deviating, or urgent shipments;
• Ensuring efficient transport planning and an optimal combination of shipments;
• Monitoring costs, revenues, and gross margins;
• Assessing and selecting carriers based on price, quality, reliability, and availability;
• Negotiating rates and making operational agreements with carriers, customers, and partners;
• Identifying and resolving irregularities during the transport process;
• Monitoring correct, complete, and timely administrative and financial processing of transport files;
• Maintaining and further developing the network of carriers;
• Acting as a point of contact and sparring partner for customers, carriers, and internal departments;
• Stimulating collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement within the team;
• Reporting on operational results, quality, productivity, and margin.

The underlying job description emphasizes the independent purchasing and planning of transport, finding solutions in the carrier market, and realizing the right service at an attractive margin.

For this position, we are looking for someone who stands firmly in their shoes, maintains an overview, and dares to make decisions. You are commercially sharp, but do not lose sight of the quality of service and the interest of the customer.

In addition, you possess:

• HBO working and thinking level, preferably in logistics, transport, or supply chain;
• Experience within transport planning, chartering, or road transport;
• Experience with managing, guiding, or coaching colleagues;
• Good knowledge of the European transport market and the network of carriers;
• Insight into market prices, rate structures, and transport margins;
• Knowledge of loading regulations, load meters, and preferably ADR;
• Good geographical knowledge of Europe;
• Experience with transport management systems and administrative applications;
• A good command of the Dutch and English languages;
• Proficiency in the German language is a plus.

The required professional knowledge aligns with the job description, which mentions among other things knowledge of logistical processes, European liner services, market prices, rate structures, loading regulations, ADR, and the European transport market.

You are a natural trailblazer who maintains calm in a dynamic environment. You provide clear direction, but also offer employees space to take responsibility. When the situation calls for it, you step into the operation yourself and help the team to find a suitable solution.

You recognize yourself in the following characteristics:

• Coaching and decisive;
• Customer- and result-oriented;
• Commercial and cost-conscious;
• Strong communication skills;
• Proactive and solution-oriented;
• Stress-resistant and flexible;
• Strong in planning, organizing, and prioritizing;
• Good at building and maintaining relationships;
• Focused on collaboration and continuous improvement.

Customer orientation, communication skills, networking, and result orientation are also included as central competencies in the job profile.

Are you ready to take responsibility for our direct transports and, together with the team, realize the best results for our customers? Then we would love to meet you.

Apply for the position of Teamlead Direct Loads and help build an efficient, reliable, and future-oriented transport organization.