Union Maritime is a leading global shipowner and shipping solutions provider, powering global trade by transporting essential cargo safely, sustainably, and efficiently. We operate with an unwavering commitment to excellence, leveraging extensive maritime expertise and innovative technologies to deliver reliable and agile services, enabling our partners to unlock new growth opportunities. We strive to build long-term partnerships and foster a culture of sustainability that creates value for our customers, crew, and the global communities we serve. 

We prioritise safety and environmental responsibility in all operations, continuously embracing digital innovation to optimise performance and reduce our ecological footprint. 

​We are currently looking for a junior role within the Post Fixtures Team at UML to support the Team leader and be responsible for their own claims and outstanding recoveries​ 

Requirements

The Credit Risk Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of credit exposure across the group’s chartering, broking, financing, and other transactional activities. The Credit Risk Manager will be responsible for developing and maintaining credit limit protocols and individual counterparty limits, as well as management of interest-charging policy and practice, credit default identification, escalation, and reporting. The function requires close coordination with Finance colleagues on outstanding receivables and receipts, as well as with Legal on recoveries and commercial teams on mitigations and strategy.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Credit Risk Operations

-          Develop, implement, and maintain a robust credit risk policy accounting for counterparty types, transactions, regions, and sectors.

-          Monitor and enforce credit limits for counterparties, ensuring compliance with internal thresholds.

-          Develop and implement policy on application of interest terms in contracts.

-          Identify and escalate defaults and potential defaults.

-          Consult with relevant stakeholders on mitigations and recoveries.

-          Maintain a centralised tracking system for credit exposures, overdue accounts, and recovery efforts.

As Union Maritime’s (UML) fleet continues to grow, within an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, with evolving client demands, there is a necessity to strengthen our specialist Commercial Operations team in a newly established global location, Houston, USA.  

This is an exciting opportunity to be the first Commercial Operator for Union Maritime in the USA; a proud milestone in the company’s history.

 The Commercial Operations team handles our tanker, chemical and dry bulk fleet globally.

UML also has a substantial newbuild programme underway, which consists of chemical and product tankers, in addition to dry bulk vessels, equipped with state-of-the-art wind-assisted propulsion technology, in addition to forward-thinking dual fuel configurations.

Core Role Function

 Our Commercial Operations team currently has offices in London (HQ), Lagos, Chennai and Singapore. Moreover, UML also has offices in Athens, Mumbai and Tokyo, making this an opportunity to join a truly global team.   

 To oversee the commercial operations for our owned fleet of tankers, both across spot and period charter structures. There may be the occasional requirement to assist with time zone coverage on our dry bulk vessels, when they are in the USA.

 As the first team member, there will be a strong expectation for the right candidate to drive uptake of our company systems and ways of working, to ensure a uniform global standard.    

Due to the further expansion of our Bulk Carriers fleet we are actively seeking for an experienced Operator for Bulk Carriers. You will liaise with the vessels and ports to ensure smooth voyage and time charter operation in accordance with company procedures.

As a part of your role, you will:

• Monitor day to day vessels operations and carry out required follow up (messages monitoring, scheduling actions, liaise with port agents etc.)
• Issue daily position reports and co-operate with Chartering dept for vessels deployments and fixtures.
• Handle voyage/time charter pre-fixture and post-fixture operations.
• Monitor Charterers redelivery and delivery to next Charterers and provide support to Master with pre-fixture and post-fixture matters.  
• Coordinate and assist the Master with the port agents for the vessel arrival and departure formalities.
• Monitor vessels port operations and assist the Master with documentation and port/terminal requirements
• Negotiate Port disbursement accounts, appoint port agency and issue invoices and hire statements. Review the PDAs and FDAs and arrange remittances accordingly.
• Assist with claims and Charter party disputes.
• Assist with incidents, accidents response and vessels insurance coverage.
• Participate and coordinate vessels’ purchases and sales deliveries.

Requirements

Due to the expansion of our fleet, we are seeking for a Bulk Carriers Operations Manager (Deputy).

As a Bulk Carriers Operations Manager (Deputy)

The role is responsible for monitoring vessels’ operations, movements and manage post fixture activities. Reports to Operations Director.

As a part of your role, you will:

We are looking for a dynamic and entrepreneurial Chartering Manager to establish and lead our Houston office. This key role will be responsible for developing our presence in the region, overseeing spot and long-term chartering activities, and managing general shipping and logistics projects within the tanker sector. The ideal candidate will have strong market knowledge, a proactive mindset, and the ability to drive business growth.

1. Office Establishment & Business Development

• Lead the setup and development of our Houston office, aligning with company strategy and goals.
• Identify and capitalize on market opportunities to grow our presence in the U.S. and Americas region.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Charterers, shipowners, brokers, operators, and cargo interests.
• Represent the company at industry events, meetings, and networking opportunities.

2. Spot & Long-Term Chartering/relationships (Tankers)

• Manage and execute spot chartering contracts, ensuring competitive positioning in the market.
• Develop and negotiate long-term charter agreements
• Monitor market trends, freight rates, and competitor activities to provide strategic recommendations.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience:

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What you will do in this role:

About Signal Ocean: Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product, The Signal Ocean Platform, helps shipping and commodities professionals navigate their complex decision making. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology suite provides tailored, exclusive insights that support our clients in achieving performance and efficiency. By securely handling and combining private and public shipping data flows, and applying advanced analytics, insights are delivered over web and mobile applications, as well as through a rich set of APIs and SDKs. Our backend architecture is abstracted to modularly offer deep analytics capabilities that are leveraged in the solutions that we offer or can be directly embedded in our client’s system topologies.

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