Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Orchestrate the development, negotiation and codification of vendor-specific collaboration concepts for Global Terminal Operators
- Ensure consolidation of supplier-specific collaboration approaches into comprehensive category strategy for Hapag-Lloyd, including alignment of cost saving targets and measures with Regions for a comprehensive terminal cost budget
- Manage strategic proposals to secure Hapag-Lloyd‘s terminal capacity requirements and competitiveness, incl. frameworks for long-term partnerships
- Actively steer and support cross-regional category strategy implementation and sourcing activities, aligned with relevant stakeholders and frameworks ensuring maximum outcome for Hapag-Lloyd
- Initiate and manage port studies to analyze mid- / long-term balance of surplus vs. demand and implications for Hapag-Lloyd’s sourcing concepts
- Establish and maintain vendor relationships on relevant levels and serve as escalation level
- Ensure close alignment with other procurement-internal and -external stakeholders to support identification of additional value add potentials for and across terminal operators in scope
- Facilitate (co-)creation, codification and implementation of a global supplier management process, standardized methods and tools for strategic terminal procurement