Assistant General Manager, Crewing (Recruitment)

The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the organization's recruitment of seafarers, developing a framework to manage risk, and overseeing the implementation of workflow improvements. You will be driving recruitment initiatives and strategies, benchmarking seafarers" wages and remuneration in the industry to stay competitive, and setting a framework for verifying knowledge and skills assessment of seafarers. You should be an expert in manpower planning of vessels, shipboard management, and crew competency needs. Managing and motivating employees of the recruitment cell will be part of your responsibilities, along with driving regular process reviews and improvements in the recruitment process aligned with Wallem's vision and values. Your responsibilities will include instituting compliance systems and practices to monitor adherence to regulations, monitoring team members" performance for compliance with various requirements, defining crew recruitment strategies, policies, and procedures, and planning recruitment in the region of resources. You will need to identify new and efficient sources of manpower, promote engagement strategies to improve crew selection and processing, review manpower forecasting, and engage with senior management and other stakeholders to identify anticipated employment needs for seafarers. Overseeing manning agents" performance, working with the Marketing Department to support brand propagation, and identifying public crewing portals for the selection of seafarers are also key responsibilities. Additionally, you will support the GM, Crewing (Ops) in the annual review of seafarers" wage matrices, manage recruitment teams" assigned budget, evaluate business challenges, align quality control of seafarers, formulate strategies to improve the candidate selection process, and contribute to defining Crewing Strategies based on key trends and best practices of the crewing market. Identifying new and emerging risk areas, addressing first trip attrition of seafarers, assessing the manpower situation based on Porters 5 forces model, participating in succession planning, and motivating, mentoring, and engaging with team members to drive performance and commitment will be part of your role. Your qualifications should include a degree in Maritime/Logistics or related disciplines, a minimum of 8 years of management experience with intermediate shipboard experience, and a good command of written and spoken English with strong communication skills.,