[Job-offers-cs] 2-years Post-doc position on revenue management at Kedge Business School / CMA-CGM

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] 2-years Post-doc position on revenue management at 
Kedge Business School / CMA-CGM
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:09:06 +0100
From: Gautier Stauffer <gautier.stauffer at gmail.com>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

2-years (1+1) Post-doc position on revenue management and dynamic 
pricing in container shipping at KEDGE Business School/CMA CGM group
Context
Present in over 160 countries through 755 offices, 750 warehouses and 
110,000 employees, equipped with a young and diverse fleet of 
511 vessels, CMA CGM serves 420 of the world's 521 commercial ports and 
operates on more than 200 shipping lines. CMA CGM is merging its 
expertise in maritime transport with top quality logistics and 
intermodal solutions to offer an end-to-end shipping service that 
exceeds all expectations.
KEDGE Business School is a French business school with 4 campuses in 
France (Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles and Toulon), 2 in China (Shanghai 
and Suzhou), 1 in Dakar, Senegal, and 3 partner campuses (Avignon, 
Bastia and Bayonne). KEDGE BS offers a portfolio of 36 management 
programs for students and industry professionals and comprises a 
specific research center specialized in Supply Chains, the Center of 
Excellence in Supply Chain Innovation and Transportation the Centre of 
Excellence in Supply Chain (CESIT).
The project
Revenue management and dynamic pricing is pivotal to drive better 
performances in the maritime sector and CMA CGM is currently revisiting 
his pricing methodology to build upon the latest academic developments. 
KEDGE Business School is supporting this effort by bringing in its 
expertise of pricing, its knowledge of the maritime sector and its 
command of predictive and prescriptive analytics.
The project will focusses initially on maximizing the revenues of the 
vessel voyages. In particular, this involves analyzing, developing and 
solving optimization models to ensure an efficient arbitrage between 
short (spot market) and long contracts and to achieve an efficient 
sharing of spaces amongst CMA CGM trades. Then in a second phase, we 
will consider end-to-end pricing (including intermodal legs) and global 
revenue optimization (including the management of empty containers).
For this project, we are looking for a post-doc with a background in 
operations research who is confortable with the techniques from revenue 
management and pricing and has an appetency for machine learning 
(CMA-CGM has developed tools for demand forecasting based upon the 
latter techniques and we will use some of these tools to nourish the 
optimisation models).
Location
The post-doc will spend most of her/his time at CMA-CGM headquarter in 
Marseille. However regular visits (around 1 week per month on average) 
to the Center of Excellence in Supply Chain Innovation and 
Transportation (CESIT) at Kedge Business School Bordeaux are to be 
expected (the corresponding expenses will of course be covered).
Pre-requisite
·      Proficiency with mathematical modeling and optimization (mixed 
integer programming, dynamic programming, etc…)
·      Proficiency with CPLEX, Gurobi
·      Command of some programming language: Julia, python, C++ or alike
·      Knowledge of Python or R packages for machine learning is a plus
·      A good command of French is preferable.
Salary
The position is for two years (the contract is set up for an initial 
period of one year, continued by tacit renewal). The successful 
candidate will receive a post-doc scholarship of 3 000 EUR per month and 
additional funding for travel, research visits and international 
conferences.
Application
We plan to have a first round of interviews at the end of March 2020 and 
we encourage applicants to send their applications by March 22, 2020, 
but the position will remain open until it is filled. The position would 
start preferably on May 1, 2020 or earlier.
Application should be sent electronically to Professor Pierre Cariou and 
Gautier Stauffer and should include:
·      a cover letter containing your motivation for the position
·      A Curriculum Vitae with a list of publications
·      A copy of the applicant’s PhD
·      Letters of recommendation and/or references
Contact
Pierre Cariou, Senior Professor Shipping and Port Economics,
Center of Excellence in Supply Chain Innovation and Transportation (CESIT)
Kedge Business School Bordeaux, France.
Pierre.Cariou at Kedgebs.com
Gautier Stauffer, Senior Professor of Operations and Supply Chain 
Management,
Director of the Center of Excellence in Supply Chain Innovation and 
Transportation (CESIT)
Kedge Business School Bordeaux, France.
Gautier.stauffer at kedgebs.com