Head of Digital Solutions
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services
Description
ZIM Head of Digital Solutions is responsible for ensuring that the digital initiatives deliver measurable impact and position ZIM as a leader in digital shipping services.
ZIM’s digital offering is leading the shipping industry practice, including customer-facing and internal service platforms. The role focuses on delivering innovative, value-driven solutions that enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and support global business continuity.
This position leads the strategy, development, and continuous improvement of ZIM’s digital assets - including the MyZIM personal area, ZIM’s website, mobile app, Customer Service modules on the CRM, Customer Service modules on the ERP systems and other supportive systems - while ensuring alignment with business goals, market offering, and customer expectations.
The role serves as a central point of coordination between commercial teams, customer service units, IT, and executive leadership.
Major areas of responsibility
Leading ZIM’s Digital Offering - Drive the strategy, planning, and execution of ZIM’s digital platforms, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business priorities, and competitive benchmarks
- Identify and prioritize new capabilities for digital platforms based on customer feedback, surveys, market benchmark, data analysis of platform usages and internal input
- Conduct quarterly reviews of ZIM’s digital offering vs. competitors to propose a continuous strategic direction
- Lead cross-functional prioritization discussions with VPs and key stakeholders
- Deliver internal enablement of ZIM’s digital offering
- Present digital roadmap, gaps, and opportunities to executive management
Translating Business Needs into Digital Solutions - Serve as the central link between customer service units (Countries, Traffic, GSS, Customer Experience) and product development teams to ensure system enhancements drive real business value
- Collect business requirements and define functional change requests
- Prioritize development requests across departments based on value and impact
- Align with internal systems’ roadmap and release cycles
- Support deployment and adoption of new capabilities
- Maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders to anticipate future needs
Team Leadership and Execution Oversight - Lead a global, multidisciplinary team focused on delivering digital solutions that improve customer experience and internal efficiency
- Team management, including product owners, analysts, support staff, and trainers
- Set priorities, track progress, and ensure business value is delivered
- Mentor team members to remain focused on simplicity and customer impact
- Review complex or high-impact solutions before implementation
- Adjust direction as needed based on business context or solution design
Customer Service Business Continuity & Cyber Readiness - Ensure customer service operations can function effectively during cyber incidents through dedicated systems, procedures, and ongoing readiness activities
- Own and evolve the cloud-based AgentCloud system for global customer service teams
- Develop, maintain, and enforce global SOPs for cyber event scenarios
- Train customer service teams worldwide for cyber readiness
- Conduct quarterly readiness checks across countries
- Collaborate with the Global Operations Center and contribute to company-wide resilience efforts
Requirements
Education & Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, or a related field (master’s degree is an advantage)
- 7+ years of experience in Customer Service
- Proven track record in leading Digital transformation, product ownership, or business systems leadership roles experience in a global and matrixed organization – an advantage
Professional Experience
- Strong experience as a business owner of digital platforms leading product evolvement from concept to delivery and to on-going operations
- Deep understanding of customer service processes and enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, BI)
- Background in working closely with Cross-Disciplines units to align digital offerings with business goals
- First-hand operational experience working in or with local agencies, including direct interaction with front-line staff and customers; ability to bring the voice of the field into strategic planning and digital development
Skills & Competencies
- Business acumen and strategic thinking with ability to prioritize based on value and impact
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities in managing global, multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex ideas simply across all levels of the organization
- High independence, ownership, and initiative in driving projects forward in a dynamic environment
- Analytical thinking with a structured, problem-solving approach
- Ability to balance long-term vision with short-term execution needs