Responsibilities and Tasks:
- 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