Tim Jurischka

CEO, Region CEE | Co-Founder | Shareholder | Logistics Expert | Consultant | Coach & Advisor

Hamburg, Germany

Experience

May 2023 - Present
2 years 1 month
Hamburg, Germany

CEO, Region CEE

Greencarrier

Starting and heading up the Consolidation business unit in the CEE Region (Germany, Poland and Lithuania) for the Greencarrier Group!

  • Greencarrier Consolidators is operating under its own GC flag in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Singapore!
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
1 year 4 months
Gdynia, Poland

Managing Director Northeast Europe (Germany & Poland)

Vanguard Logistics Services

  • Successfully manage the country organization through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, reporting and budgeting. Relate positively with Corporate, Regional and other country executives and managers.
  • Enable teamwork by building relationships and coordination with network associates, taking leadership when required and creating a climate for action in a collegial manner.
  • Effectively communicate business objectives in area of responsibility, customer orientation, and develop positive relations with peers.
  • Achieve or exceed country performance budget goals in areas including, but not limited, to E2E performance, country revenue, and product sales and operations performance. This would include operating costs and revenue.
  • Achieve results using accepted methods adhering to company policies and practices.
  • Drive and support the priority tradelanes and deliver on budget revenue development for these tradelanes.
  • Drive successful implementation of strategic initiatives. This would include operations readiness for the impending new operating platform implementation, organization restructuring, customer service transformation and the procurement strategy and adherence to the approved carriers as required.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews of direct reports, and identify, address, and resolve employee performance issues.
  • Manage the recruitment and training process; ensure employees are competent in safety matters and are allocated tasks commensurate with their skills.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with customers, agents and vendors; negotiate and manage contracts with vendors.
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Director, Commercial Europe/Africa

Vanguard Logistics Services

  • Set achievable, yet aggressively sales goals, account strategies, and growth goals for the region and for each sales representative in collaboration with the Regional CEO.
  • Develop the sales team, working with internal resources to provide training in new account sales and growth, new and multi-product sales, profitability, competitive strategies, management of expenses, and contracts.
  • Partner with pricing and operations to ensure that procurement agreements with vendors and providers support both revenue growth and margin goals.
  • Conduct sales efforts in major accounts and negotiate sales price and discounts in consultation with the Regional CEO.
  • Plan and evaluate staff progress towards established goals, conduct regular performance feedback discussions.
  • Lead key account efforts in the region.
  • Drive the region's focus on developing a sales culture, growing business.
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
2 years 5 months
Hamburg, Germany

Country Manager Germany

Vanguard Logistics Services

  • Successfully manage the country organization through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, reporting, and budgeting. Relate positively with Corporate, Regional, and other country executives and managers.
  • Enable teamwork by building relationships and coordination with network associates, taking leadership when required, and creating a climate for action in a collegial manner.
  • Effectively communicate business objectives in the area of responsibility, customer orientation, and develop positive relations with peers.
  • Achieve or exceed country performance budget goals in areas including, but not limited to, E2E performance, country revenue, and product sales and operations performance. This would include operating costs and revenue.
  • Achieve results using accepted methods adhering to company policies and practices.
  • Drive and support the priority tradelanes and deliver on budget revenue development for these tradelanes.
  • Drive the successful implementation of strategic initiatives. This would include operations readiness for the impending new operating platform implementation, organization restructuring, customer service transformation, and the procurement strategy and adherence to the approved carriers as required.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews of direct reports and identify, address, and resolve employee performance issues.
  • Manage the recruitment and training process; ensure employees are competent in safety matters and are allocated tasks commensurate with their skills.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with customers, agents, and vendors; negotiate and manage contracts with vendors.
Nov 2016 - May 2018
1 year 7 months
London, United Kingdom

Regional LCL Product & Trade Lane Manager Europe

Vanguard Logistics Services

  • Analyzation of current processes to make improvement proposals and leading implementation
  • Sales restructure and process optimization
  • Develop sales strategies, marketing campaigns for Trade Lane development - Initiator to improve standard operational procedures in the LCL product
  • Trade Lane Management Inbound and Outbound to/from Europe
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Trade Lane Coordinator (Germany)

Vanguard Logistics Services

Trade Lane Management for Ocean Freight Inbound/Outbound, develop Sales strategies, Marketing campaigns and Operational SOP's, Business Analysis, Sales, determine Trade Lane pricing and responsible for Carrier Procurement, Airfreight development.

Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Export Business Development Coordinator (Germany)

Vanguard Logistics Services

  • Trade Lane Management for Outbound
  • Develop sales strategies, marketing campaigns, and operational SOP's
  • Sales and business analysis
  • Responsible for agent quoting
Dec 2011 - Feb 2014
2 years 3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Export Traffic Coordinator - Latin America (Germany)

Vanguard Logistics Services

Coordinate Trade Lane to Latin America, ensure high service quality, Container Planning, operational export tasks (i.e. Customs clearance), Trade Lane development, Sales, work on marketing and Sales strategies, Trade Lane pricing

Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
5 months
Hamburg, Germany

Export Documentation - Worldwide (Germany)

Vanguard Logistics Services

Operational Documentation, issuing export documents (BL's, invoicing, pre alerts)

Aug 2008 - Jun 2011
2 years 11 months
Hamburg, Germany

Trainee (Germany)

Vanguard Logistics Services

Seafreight inbound/outbound, CFS and transportation

Summary

Tim has 15 years of experience within the international logistics industry (Ocean, Air, Rail, and CFS) where he has spent over 10 years in management, director, and C-level roles. He holds a degree in Logistics Management and has lived abroad in London, U.K. Tim enjoys spending time in politics, entrepreneurship, and education about mental health and personality development. Tim can support with his expertise as an advisor in international logistics but also as a business angel to consult early stage startups on long-term strategy processes!

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2016 - Jun 2018

HAF Hamburger Akademie für Fernstudien GmbH

Logisticsmanagement · International Logistics

Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

Staatliche Handelsschule mit Wirtschaftsgymnasium Hamburg

Management Assistant for Freight forwarding and logistics services & high school diploma

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