Cost Control Manager Region Europe

CMA CGM Group, steered by Rodolphe Saadé, is a global leader in shipping and logistics with a reach that spans more than 420 ports across five continents. The organization spans sea, land and air logistics through its core brands, including CEVA Logistics and CMA CGM AIR CARGO, always innovating to provide customers with a complete and increasingly efficient suite of solutions.

The company is taking a clear stance on energy transition, aiming to reach Net Zero Carbon by 2050, and it backs humanitarian relief through the CMA CGM Foundation, mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise for emergency responses. Its footprint stretches to 160 countries, supported by a network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses. Worldwide, the Group employs more than 155,000 people, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

The role of Cost Control Manager Region Europe sits onsite in Marseille, FR, and is a full-time position that will suit someone who enjoys turning financial insight into concrete business actions, partnering across regions and functions to protect margins and drive smarter decisions.

Cost control in the Europe region

As the Cost Control Manager, you’ll steer the Europe Regional Office’s cost and revenue control agenda and act as a strategic finance partner to regional leadership, agencies, Operations, GBS, and Head Office. The aim is to safeguard margins, improve the accuracy of cost and revenue data, and enable better business decisions through performance management, operational insight, and transformation initiatives.

You’ll translate complex financial analysis into clear recommendations, challenge cost performance, and back commercial and operational improvement initiatives. The role requires strong leadership, adept stakeholder management, rigorous analysis, and the ability to drive collaboration and execution across the Regional Office, agencies, GBS, and Head Office.

What helps you succeed in this role

• Between five and eight years of experience in the shipping industry, including at least three years in Operations and/or Finance.
• A proven ability to partner with Finance, Operations, agencies, GBS, and Head Office stakeholders and influence decisions.
• A knack for interpreting complex data, spotting key business drivers, and delivering straightforward recommendations.
• A track record of solving problems and pushing solutions through to implementation.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Capacity to prioritise work, manage performance, and deliver precise results.
• Flexibility and reliability, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities or unexpected issues.
• Solid planning and organisational skills, along with sound professional judgment and ethics.
• Experience leading and developing diverse regional teams.

Pay, perks and practical details

This is an onsite, full-time role based in Marseille, FR. The position sits within CMA CGM’s Europe region and requires you to work from the office.

Tips for applicants

Lead your résumé with your shipping industry experience in cost control and margin management, highlighting a total of five to eight years in the field and at least three in Operations or Finance.

Show concrete results that demonstrate your ability to partner with multiple stakeholders, Finance, Operations, agencies, GBS, and Head Office, and to influence decisions. Quantify the impact of your actions on costs, tariffs, and revenue accuracy wherever possible.

Be ready to walk through specific projects where you improved cost control, identified risks, and drove corrective actions end-to-end. Have numbers ready to illustrate how you benchmarked costs or recovered margins.

Consider a thoughtful question that touches the regional cost-control roadmap, measurement of success, or how collaboration with Head Office is structured to deliver the region’s targets. For example, ask about how regional priorities are defined and tracked against business targets.