Tim Jurischka
CEO, Region CEE | Co-Founder | Shareholder | Logistics Expert | Consultant | Coach & Advisor
Experience
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Export Documentation - Worldwide (Germany)
Vanguard Logistics Services
Operational Documentation, issuing export documents (BL's, invoicing, pre alerts)
Trainee (Germany)
Vanguard Logistics Services
Seafreight inbound/outbound, CFS and transportation
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Experienced in Transportation (17.5 years).
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Experienced in Operations (16 years), Logistics (13.5 years), Supply Chain Management (9.5 years), Sales (6.5 years), Procurement (3.5 years), and Marketing (1.5 years).
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!
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Education
HAF Hamburg Academy for Distance Learning GmbH
Logistics Management · International Logistics
State Trade School with Business High School Hamburg
Management Assistant for Freight forwarding and logistics services & high school diploma
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