About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 264 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.0 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13,500 employees and 400 offices in 135 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 2.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 113 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2,600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment handle terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

About us:

What is the fastest way to route a shipment of pharmaceuticals from Daegu, Korea to Kumasi, Ghana? How should the optimal price of a shipment dynamically change based on the available routes? How can we proactively change routes depending on the space which is available on our vessels or given operational constraints in the ports? 

In the exciting environment of global trade, questions like these drive our business. The QBE (Quotation and Booking Engine) project is the once-in-a-lifetime chance to shape the future of Hapag-Lloyd. We are doing this by connecting our product offering close to the quotation, booking, routing, and allocation management processes and thereby realizing a whole new customer experience while being able to steer our business way better than today.  

To achieve this, we are dramatically improving multiple IT components in an agile way with state-of-the-art technology, including the Shipment Routing Engine which determines how we optimally move twelve million containers per year from port to port and door to door.
Be part of the change and join us in QBE!

Your Responsibilities:

We are looking for you as Operations Research Engineer (m/f/d) for the Shipment Routing Engine in the Digital Analytics workstream of QBE. The Digital Analytics workstream ensures that the business innovations of QBE take full advantage of the many opportunities of data: automating and optimizing with the help of advanced analytics and state-of-the-art operations research models, providing the right data for business steering, and taking process concepts to the next level.

As an Operations Research Engineer (m/f/d) for the Shipment Routing Engine, you will…

  • Identify, ideate, and challenge the way we route shipments across our global network
  • Develop prototypical algorithms to better link shipment routes with customer contracts and allocation management – ensuring that our customers receive what they paid for and that we deliver what we offered
  • Support the strategic decision on how much routing flexibility we want to provide our customers per product bundle with analytical models
  • Radically simplify and rethink our current mechanisms/ algorithms for shipment routing
  • Work closely together with the Product Owners (PO) and business experts from all workstreams to define and prioritize the business requirements
  • Liaise with IT Products to transform the concepts into productive long-term solutions

Your Profile:

To be successful in this role, you should…

  • Be motivated to applying your passion for operations research/ analytics to the world of global logistics
  • Have interest in the holistic analysis and modeling of complex systems which are strongly interrelated with numerous operative, tactical, and strategic business processes
  • Degree in quantitative field such as mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, economics or related
  • Be excited about challenging the status quo, coming up with creative and innovative solutions and working conceptually
  • Have excellent command of spoken and written English


German language expectations: We expect all international candidates to be willing to learn at least the basics of the German language in case they are accepted for the position. This will enable you to participate in social and community life in Germany and at our company premises in the best possible way.

We offer:

  • Challenging tasks and the opportunity to develop solutions of which you are convinced
  • Extensive project experience (first-hand experience how IT implementation and future technology work)
  • Ownership from concept to implementation
  • Competitive remuneration (thirteenth salary + vacation pay)
  • A minimum of 28 days of vacation, flexible working hours, capital-forming benefits, company pension plan
  • Centrally located between the main train station and Jungfernstieg as well as subsidy for public transportation
  • Blended work model that offers you the possibility of working from our headquarters (3 days/ week) or working from home (2 days/ week)
  • Bicycle leasing
  • Health and company sports programs (e.g. yoga, sailing, company doctor, etc.)

You are interested in joining QBE, but this specific posting doesn’t fit your profile? No problem! Please check out the other job offers we have posted.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Contact person

Kristin Peters Managerin Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding