Vice President, Ports & Terminals Operations - Americas

DP World•Charlotte, NC

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President, Ports & Terminal Operations - Americas will Lead regional operations across Americas, ensuring world‑class standards in safety, service reliability, productivity and cost‑to‑serve performance. This role involves leading strategic decisions for Americas Ports and Terminals, defining new strategic opportunities for growth, and driving operational and financial results. The position also focuses on standardizing P&T business across the region, applying LEAN practices, and fostering a Total Cost of Ownership mentality for engineering functions. Additionally, it includes driving terminal handling equipment standardization, supporting growth and integration through operational due diligence and post-deal integration for acquisitions and new terminals, and managing the current portfolio including underperforming sites. The role establishes and governs the regional operations strategy, drives the operations transformation agenda with automation, digitization, and standardization, and enforces operating standards with high data integrity and transparency. Collaboration with Commercial, Finance, HSSE, HR, and Digital/IT is essential to deliver customer commitments and optimize strategies.

Requirements

A strong track record of leading complex, multi‑site port or terminal operations at regional or enterprise level
Proven experience driving operational transformation, performance improvement and standardization across diverse geographies
Experience with leading using LEAN methodologies
Proven experience with implementation of automation tools in Port operations
Deep operational, commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance performance, safety and customer outcomes
A collaborative leadership style, with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders and build high‑performing leadership teams
A passion for safety, excellence and continuous improvement
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in The United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Be an ambassador for safety, always prioritize safety and help enhancing the safety culture across the company
Lead all strategic decisions for Americas Ports and Terminals in close collaboration with all AMR leadership and GOE
Define new strategic opportunities that enables growth and operating model that ties in with Regional and Global strategy
Drive company results from both an operational and financial perspective working closely with the CFO, CEO and other key executive team members
Set challenging and realistic goals for growth, performance and profitability
Drive and develop standardization of the P&T business across the region
Ensure LEAN practices are applied in the regional and BU teams
Drive Total Cost of Ownership mentality for the engineering functions across the region
Drive terminal handling equipment standardization for the Americas Region in close collaboration with the business, regional procurement and GOE
Work with Regional teams to ensure good practice and governance is integrated into the business
Support growth and integration, leading operational due diligence and post‑deal integration for acquisitions, expansions, greenfield and start‑up terminals to ensure rapid stabilization and adoption of DP World operating standards
Portfolio manage the current portfolio including dealing with unperforming sites and assessing opportunities to monetize minority stakes or non-core assets in line with DP World strategy
Set and govern the regional operations strategy, providing strong direction, oversight and accountability to terminal leadership teams
Own the regional operations transformation agenda, driving automation, digitization and standardization in line with the Global Operations & Engineering (GOE) management system
Establish and enforce operating standards, ensuring high levels of data integrity, performance transparency and disciplined operational routines
Partner across the business with Commercial, Finance, HSSE, HR and Digital/IT to deliver customer commitments, optimize asset and capital strategies, and enable continuous improvement