This newly established role connects maritime emissions rules and customer climate goals with practical low-carbon freight offers. The manager will shape commercial responses to regulation and help move suitable solutions from analysis into real dry bulk shipping operations, working across the company’s energy, operations, chartering and technical expertise.
The focus is the emissions associated with customers’ shipping supply chains. Pacific Basin is exploring how sustainable fuels, efficiency measures, operational choices and credible emissions accounting approaches can support lower-carbon freight while fitting the economics and constraints of vessel deployment. That makes the role a bridge between regulatory change, customer Scope 3 ambitions and workable shipping services.
This suits someone who can interpret complex environmental requirements, assess commercial options and explain them clearly to customers and specialist colleagues. Experience in shipping is useful but not essential; sound analysis, commercial judgment and comfort working through emerging questions are central.
Job FAQs
What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The role would interpret FuelEU Maritime, EU ETS, IMO measures and voluntary frameworks, then assess what they mean for vessel deployment, trading patterns, fuels and customer offers. It also involves developing practical decarbonisation approaches, including sustainable fuel use and compliance mechanisms such as pooling or banking.
A second focus is shaping and presenting low-carbon freight propositions, including direct voyage solutions and book-and-claim approaches where appropriate. The longer-term aim is to turn customer demand and regulatory change into commercially viable solutions that can be delivered in dry bulk operations.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The position could build expertise in maritime regulation, emissions accounting and the commercial implications of changing rules. The successful candidate would likely gain direct exposure to sustainable fuel decisions, FuelEU compliance mechanisms and approaches for attributing emissions benefits across freight supply chains.
Working with Sustainable Energy Solutions, Chartering, Operations and Technical colleagues could also deepen understanding of how shipping services are priced and executed. Customer discussions may develop skills in translating Scope 3 goals into credible proposals, while the newly established remit offers experience shaping approaches in an evolving field.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
A strong candidate would bring experience in sustainability, decarbonisation, environmental regulation, low-carbon energy, environmental markets, logistics, commodities, consulting or shipping. Shipping experience is beneficial rather than essential. The posting emphasizes the ability to read complex frameworks, assess their commercial implications and move from analysis to implementation.
Clear communication and confidence with customers matter alongside quantitative and commercial judgment. Familiarity with FuelEU Maritime, EU ETS, IMO measures, SBTi or Scope 3 targets would be relevant. The role also calls for curiosity, adaptability and the ability to work across specialist and commercial teams when the right solution is not yet defined.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Use the application message to name the role and explain why your experience fits the intersection of regulation, customer decarbonisation and dry bulk shipping. The company requests a PDF résumé, salary expectation and contact details, with a covering message.
Show one or two concrete examples where you interpreted an environmental rule or emissions goal, assessed commercial options and helped implement a solution. If you have not worked in shipping, make the transfer clear by explaining how you have handled operational constraints, customer needs or complex supply chains. Be prepared to discuss how you would communicate costs and emissions benefits without overstating what a freight solution can deliver.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role is likely to focus on reducing maritime emissions associated with customer supply chains, linking the company’s stated interest in fuel and carbon efficiency with practical freight choices. Work may involve sustainable fuels, energy efficiency, operational optimisation and credible ways to attribute emissions benefits.
Regulatory compliance is a central part of the remit, particularly around FuelEU Maritime, EU ETS and IMO measures. Customer Scope 3 ambitions and voluntary frameworks such as SBTi also inform the commercial proposition. The work therefore connects shipping operations, regulatory readiness and customer emissions goals, rather than covering every aspect of corporate sustainability.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
A key challenge will be turning complex, changing rules into decisions that make sense across vessel deployment, trading patterns, fuel choices and commercial agreements. Potential solutions must be workable in dry bulk shipping, where operational realities can constrain what can be offered on a specific voyage.
The role will also need to reconcile customer emissions ambitions with costs, credible accounting and the limits of available data or chain-of-custody methods. As a newly established position in an evolving area, the candidate may need to define approaches while coordinating teams with different priorities and expertise.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A typical day could combine review of regulatory developments with analysis of how they affect vessel activity, fuel options or compliance exposure. The manager might assess a customer’s Scope 3 goals, compare possible low-carbon freight approaches and prepare a commercial proposal with clear cost and emissions assumptions.
Other parts of the day could involve discussing feasibility with Sustainable Energy Solutions, Chartering, Operations or Technical colleagues, then adjusting the offer to fit real shipping conditions. The balance would likely vary between focused analysis, internal coordination and direct customer conversations.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
This role could build a distinctive combination of maritime regulation, commercial decarbonisation and customer-facing experience. The postholder may deepen knowledge of fuel markets, emissions accounting, freight operations and the practical application of frameworks such as FuelEU Maritime, EU ETS and SBTi.
Because the position is newly established, there may be scope to help shape how the company develops and executes low-carbon freight offers. Over time, experience across Sustainable Energy Solutions and operational teams could support broader roles in shipping decarbonisation, environmental markets, commercial strategy or sustainability leadership, though specific pathways are not stated.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
The closest working relationships are likely to be within Sustainable Energy Solutions, including colleagues focused on fuel procurement, energy risk, sustainability and low-emission freight. Chartering, Operations and Technical teams would help assess whether proposed measures can work across vessel deployment and day-to-day shipping activity.
External conversations would include customers seeking to address maritime emissions in their supply chains. The role may also engage with relevant commercial and regulatory specialists to interpret requirements and explain options, although specific external partners are not named in the posting.
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