SURESH ARAVINDAKSHAN
G 101, Maruti Mahadev Nagar, Sunil Nagar, Dombivli East
Summary
Adaptable Manager offers 23 years of experience coordinating operations to achieve organizational goals. Communicative team leader with expertise in strategic planning and inventory management. Committed to driving improvements through innovation and leadership.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, ICD and Rail Operations
Allanasons Private limited
Mumbai
11.2017 - Current
- Reporting directly to the Deputy General Manager, Shipping Dept
- Managing team of 5 team members handling the container movement to and from the various ICDS at North
- Monitoring staff performance and addressed issues.
- Exercised good judgment and decision-making in escalating concerns and resolving issues.
- Led team meetings and one-on-one coaching sessions to continuously improve performance.
- Leveraged leadership skills to identify deficiencies and opportunities to improve policies, procedures and controls.
- Conducted quality, timely performance feedback and performance appraisals.
- Created monthly reports for senior management summarizing operational performance metrics.
- Monitored budgets and expenditures to ensure cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality standards.
- Reviewed contracts before signing them on behalf of the organization.
- Ensure sufficient inventory pool is maintained at ICDS based on the lowest rates offered for different sectors.
- Maximize the pick-up of empty containers and loading of laden containers from Mundra with low transportation costs
- Reduce detention costs for containers by ensuring containers reach port by Road/Rail on time by agreed freetime.
- Achievements:
- For the year 3 financial years between 2020 to 2023 the team has consistently managed to save approx. 2.5 Cr on container movement by using cheapest mode of transportation via road and rail
- Consistently moved on an average 150 containers to Mundra with reduced cost between 2017-2022
- Managed to reduce the detention costs for containers moved to ICDs by 50% between 2019-2022
Assistant Manager
Sealand- A Maersk company
Singapore
02.2011 - 05.2017
- Managing Port/Terminal, country operations and internal/external stakeholders.
- Manage export and import longstanding in yard/terminal by regular follow up with customer services and local offices.
- Manage and reduce renomination costs at transhipment ports by doing advance cargo planning and ensure containers cleared within the free time period.
- Manage and ensure consistent performance from the outsourced back office in Pune, Chennai and Manila Global Service Centers (GSC) by setting deadlines and weekly reviews.
Senior Executive
Maersk Singapore Private Limited
Singapore
07.2008 - 02.2011
- Design end-to-end process mapping for the migration of cargo tasks from country Operations to our BPO in India.
- Standardization of cargo processes and format of data submission for all SEA ports
- Was part of Tanjung Pelepas Renomination project as part of Maersk in co-ordination with Tanjung Pelepas terminal, local Capacity and Marine team.
- Setting up of deadlines for data submission for our Back office in India and Philippines.
- Handle escalations from customers and customer service with regards to cargo and containers.
Team Leader
Maersk Global Service Centre
Mumbai
11.2006 - 06.2008
- To lead and participate in team meetings and ensure team follows systematic process for conducting tasks relating to liner operations.
- Conducting yearly appraisals for team members every year to evaluate their performance and give required feedback.
- Assisting the Management in evaluating migration plans of processes from LOC/countries and providing feedback.
- Engage with clusters in North America and other Transport plan management teams in other back office in India and Philippines via weekly calls to discuss critical issues, data qualities check, volume sharing and BCP evaluation in event of contingencies.
- Ensure optimum resources in the team thus leading to no or minimal overtime policy
- Setting up KPI’s and yearly deliverables for the team members.
- Manage escalations if any and issue resolution through root cause analysis so as to maintain data quality
- Heading part of Global Team in which the volumes shared between 4 offices (Guangzhou, Manila, Pune andMumbai) so had to co-ordinate between all 4 offices for various issues like workflow, application issue etc.
Executive
Maersk global service centre
Mumbai
11.2003 - 10.2006
- Submission of data of Cargo to be loaded/ discharged, scrutiny of each & every unit with regards to type of cargo loaded/ discharged to the terminal.
- Planning cargo routing for shipments across various origin/destinations in the world.
- Responsible for reserving space on the vessel/ship.
- Implement new migrations coming from Locations with team and ensure smooth running of the process
- Coordinating with the capacity desk, Clusters and Operations desk to ensure smooth functioning of process.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Mumbai University
Mumbai06.1999
Skills
- Cargo management
- International Shipping
- Team management
- ICD and Rail operations
- Inventory management
- Port operations
- Freight negotiations
References
- Sadip Girijan , Head of Marine execution, Operations (Sealand - A Maersk company), Singapore
- Haviv Muhammad, Functional product owner for source to pay, Copenhagen.
- Santosh Pandey, Cost and process performance manager, Swire Shipping, Singapore.
Interests
Listening to music, reading & an avid traveller
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Malayalam
Beginner
A1
Marathi
Elementary
A2
Timeline
Manager, ICD and Rail Operations
Allanasons Private limited
11.2017 - Current
Assistant Manager
Sealand- A Maersk company
02.2011 - 05.2017
Senior Executive
Maersk Singapore Private Limited
07.2008 - 02.2011
Team Leader
Maersk Global Service Centre
11.2006 - 06.2008
Executive
Maersk global service centre
11.2003 - 10.2006
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Mumbai University