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DP World

CCO- UK Ports and Terminals

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Tilbury, Essex, England, GBR
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Tilbury, Essex, England, GBR
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Lead commercial growth across DP World’s UK ports and terminals, including London Gateway and Southampton. Develop three- to five-year growth strategies, expand existing accounts, identify revenue streams, and create investment business plans. Drive enterprise-wide value across shipping, logistics, multimodal, and port-related businesses. Build commercial analysis, forecasting, scenario modeling, and risk-monitoring capabilities while contributing to UK leadership decisions and revenue, profitability, and commercial transformation.
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The role

We are actively looking for a CCO for our UK Ports and Terminal business, this role is integral for our European business as we strive to become a leading end to end logistics provider. This role will be tasked to grow the revenue to over $1.0bn of revenue across London Gateway and Southampton with projected EBITDA at over $600mn. As you can imagine this role is going to be instrumental in driving the overall business for the UK.

You will be developing the growth strategy for both the ports which includes shipping lines, BCOs, Logistics Park, port- park integration and multimodal. As part of the ports leadership team in the UK you will be working with the  leadership team to help deliver ambitious growth and be part of strategic decisions to make DP World the leading port operator in the UK.

You will develop a 3 to 5 year commercial growth portfolio that will include growing existing accounts alongside identifying new revenue streams and building business plans for long term investment into the port. Your role in instrumental in breaking down silos within the business making sure that you are prioritising total value enterprise value across all of your divisions instead of optimising individual business- unit revenues in isolation.

You will also develop a high quality commercial analysis capability that provides the leadership team and commercial leaders with timely, decision useful insight into business performance and growth. There will also be work around developing your own commercial forecasting that will allow you provide rolling forecasts, customer and volume outlooks, scenario modelling, risk and opportunities and early warning indicators.

So, what are we looking for?

Key skills and experience include:

  • Significant executive level commercial leadership experience within ports, logistics, supply chain, shipping, transport, infrastructure or related services
  • Proven success in delivering substantial revenue growth, profitability improvement and commercial transformation
  • Experience of leading large complex commercial organisations with significant financial accountability
  • Strong understanding of global trade, shipping, logistics, supply chains and customer solutions
  • Strong financial acumen and an incisive, analytical mindset that will shows strong decision making skills with proven success
  • MBA or equivalent executive qualifications desireable.

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Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

 

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

 

To Change What's Possible For Everyone

#LI-TV1


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