About TMS

Top Marine Service (TMS) Agency established in 2006 and built upon its core values of reliability and integrity to deliver marine, shipping, and support services to upstream and downstream companies across the West African (WAF) region.

With over 19 years of West African operation experience, TMS has developed a deep understanding of the local landscape. This expertise is supported by strong infrastructure and strategic connections, giving us a competitive advantage. TMS has made significant investments in resources, equipment, and warehousing capacity to meet vessel owners’ and managers’ growing demands for spares and consumables.

TMS is committed to providing prompt, cost-effective services while upholding international standards and fostering local regeneration and employment.

Role Overview

The Business Development Executive, based in Athens, will lead commercial growth by developing and expanding relationships with Greek shipowners whose fleets operate in West Africa. This role serves as the primary commercial link between our organisation and the Greek shipping community, with a clear mandate to secure new agency service contracts for vessels calling at or operating offshore in our key hubs of Lomé (Togo) and Lagos (Nigeria).

Requirements

Overview

As Union Maritime’s (UML) fleet continues to grow, within an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, with evolving client demands, there is a necessity to focus on strengthening our specialist Commercial Operations team in the London HQ.

The team’s dynamic work supports our tanker and dry bulk fleet. UML also has a substantial newbuild programme underway, which consists of chemical and product tankers, in addition to dry bulk vessels.

Commercial Operations have team members situated in London, Lagos and Singapore. UML also has offices in Athens, Mumbai and Tokyo, making this an opportunity to join a truly global team.   

Core Role Function

To oversee the commercial operations for our owned fleet of tankers, both across spot and period charter structures.

Responsibilities

About Signal Ocean

Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product, The Signal Ocean Platform, enables shipping professionals to securely handle, integrate, and assess intricate collections of private and public shipping data. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology suite provides tailored, exclusive insights that supports our clients in improving performance and efficiency. 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 our solutions leverage or can be directly embedded in our client’s system topologies.

About the role

Shipping remains one of the world’s most complex and under-digitized sectors - a space where data and digitisation can make a profound difference. In an era defined by global disruptions, from sanctions to supply chain challenges, innovation in this field directly shapes how the world moves goods and commodities. At Signal, we look for people eager to explore this vast, often overlooked domain, and to help build technologies that bring clarity, efficiency, and intelligence to maritime commerce and global trade.

Domain Mastery via Rotation

We don't believe in keeping designers in silos. To design for shipping, you need to understand the whole lifecycle.

Description

UML is a leading shipowner headquartered in London with a fleet of more than 70 vessels on the water currently covering both tankers and dry. UML offices span three continents with a significant customer base that continues to grow with their fleet of modern, economical vessels.

As UML continues its growth, the chartering team have identified the requirement for a junior dry bulk charterer to join the desk and assist in continuing the growth in this sub-sector. UML currently has ten dry vessels on the water with another twelve to deliver by the end of 2027. Thereafter there are opportunities for further vessel growth as well as opportunities to develop cargo and paper books.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Initially day-to-day responsibilities will include, but are not limited to,

1. Pre-fixture support

2. Charter party assistance

3. Market research and analysis

4. Desk administration

5. Liaising with counterparties (as the role develops)

6. Fixing of vessels (as the role develops)

Key Skills:

1. Well-organised

2. Hardworking

3. Desire to learn quickly

4. Ability to take on responsibility

5. Out-of-the-box thinking

6. Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

We are looking for a Junior Chartering/S&P Professional to join our Commercial team. This role is designed for a recent graduate who is eager to learn, grow, and build a long-term career in the shipping industry.

What You’ll Do

• Rotate across key departement’s segments: container & dry bulk post-fixing, S&P, newbuildings, bunkering, market intelligence, and more
• Learn directly from experienced industry professionals
• Gradually take responsibility for part of our fleet’s day-to-day operations
• Develop essential skills in negotiation and interpersonal communication

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

• University degree in Shipping (or related field)
• 1–3 years of relevant experience (preferred, not required)
• Fluency in English
• Military obligations completed
• Ambitious, fast learner, and detail-oriented
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

This is a unique opportunity to grow within a leading commercial team, with structured training, gradual responsibility, and clear career development into a trusted commercial representative of the company.

Benefits

We offer:

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: