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Go deeper! As an Operations Business Analyst at Samskip, you dive deep into our operations to identify solutions that will enhance operational performance across our international transport operations.
You help provide a thorough analysis of the cost control processes, cost variance analysis, and direct operating spend to assist operations management.
Samskip is looking to create an independent role to review the internal cost control processes and aid in improving cost control awareness throughout the organization. Additionally, this role will provide detailed cost variance analysis using the standard costing approach for managing the costing and pricing of Samskip’s multimodal transport activities. This should aid in keeping control over the direct operating spend with our suppliers, avoiding unnecessary spend, and guide operations management toward a better understanding of the business dynamics, and ensure timely corrective actions. If you think you can help us achieve all that, read on and find out more about life at Samskip.
About us:
Samskip is a truly international company with headquarters in Rotterdam that innovates the most advanced sustainable and multimodal transport solutions across Europe. Being one of the largest transport companies in Europe and at one of the world’s busiest and most important transport and shipping hubs, you will engage with the cutting edge of 21st-century logistics.
It’s exciting, it’s fun, and every day is different as you work with a diverse range of colleagues from different regions and disciplines to deliver advanced transport solutions. Together, we make things happen.
Job Description:
This is a challenging and wide-ranging role in which you work with financial and operational data to review the correct implementation of various cost control processes, to analyze the differences between actual and standard costs for identifying the main reasons for deviation, and to provide corrective actions to the operations management. Furthermore, you will provide support in maintaining procurement processes and consolidating detailed information of regional teams. It involves all aspects of operations - land transport by road, rail, and water, shipping, ports, terminals, and equipment – and represents an exciting opportunity to help improve Samskip's operational excellence and bottom-line results.
Key Responsibilities:
Equipped with KPIs and cost and efficiency variance, you propose a list of improvement points for the management. In addition, you assist management in creating and maintaining internal processes concerning operations excellence improvement.
Qualifications:
To apply for this position, you need to be a highly accurate, analytical, and critical thinker who can interact with specialized colleagues to explore, develop, and implement new options and opportunities. You should also be proactive, flexible, and willing to go the extra mile.
If you also tick the following boxes, we would love to hear from you:
career.management@samskip.com
Samskip is one of the largest European transport companies, with offices in 24 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, offering environmentally responsible combined transport services via shortsea, road, rail and inland waterway routes. We are committed to cost-effectiveness, operational excellence and best practice in sustainable transport.
High frequency services connect destinations across Europe, the Baltic States, Russia…
Samskip is one of the largest European transport companies, with offices in 24 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, offering environmentally responsible combined transport services via shortsea, road, rail and inland waterway routes. We are committed to cost-effectiveness, operational excellence and best practice in sustainable transport.
High frequency services connect destinations across Europe, the Baltic States, Russia and Central Asia, both door-to-door (including collection) and quay-to-quay, transported using a wide range of owned vessels, containers, trucks and trailers. To match equipment to cargoes shipped, options include a full range of ISO containers and reefers, including 33-pallet capacity 45ft units.
Samskip's transportation and logistics activities focus mainly on the following sectors: European multimodal transport; North Atlantic integrated logistics; worldwide temperature controlled and ambient cargo forwarding and logistics and European breakbulk and project cargo movements.
Through Samskip Logistics, the company offers a full range of services, including ocean freight, trucking, cold storage and documentation based on its in-depth knowledge of global refrigerated transport. These services are supported by a network of worldwide offices.
In all cases shippers can make real choices based on frequency of service, transit times, freight rates and sustainability.
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