Manager Global Procurement (m/f/d)

• Drive the development, negotiation and codification of vendor-specific collaboration concepts for assigned Global Terminal Operators / strategic suppliers
• Provide input for continuous vendor relationship development and actively identify additional potentials for leverage
• Implement strategic proposals to secure Hapag-Lloyd’s terminal capacity requirements and competitiveness, incl. frameworks for long-term partnerships
• Drive cross-regional category strategy implementation and sourcing activities, aligned with relevant stakeholders and frameworks ensuring maximum outcome for Hapag-Lloyd
• Support port studies to analyze mid- / long-term balance of surplus vs. demand and impacts for Hapag-Lloyd’s sourcing concepts
• Establish and maintain vendor relationships on relevant levels
• Ensure close alignment with other procurement-internal and -external stakeholders to support identification of additional value add potentials for assigned global terminal operators / strategic suppliers
• Support (co-)creation and codification of a global supplier management process, standardization of methods and tools for strategic terminal procurement (i.e. standardized contracts, cross-regional reports and dashboards, coordination of cross-regional harmonization projects) and actively drive roll-out and implementation
• Provide input for and achieve budget targets jointly with regional procurement for assigned global terminal operators / strategic suppliers

• University degree in the field of business administration, logistics, transportation management and/or qualified shipping specialist or comparable qualification
• Minimum of five years’ experience with transportation, shipping, terminals operations
• Minimum of three years’ experience in procurement functions
• Result-oriented, enthusiastic, pro-active and problem-solving skills
• Analytical thinker
• Good negotiation skills and conflict management finesse
• Experience in successful stakeholder management
• Effective communicator, fluent in English both verbal and written

With a fleet of 313 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.5 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 14,000 employees and 400 offices in 140 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 3.7 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 133 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports on all the continents. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has equity stakes in 21 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India and North Africa. Around 3,000 employees are assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations in addition to the terminal activities.