With a fleet of 258 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 1.9 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. The Company has around 14,000 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 115 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports on all the continents. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the leading operators in the Transatlantic, Middle East, Latin America and Intra-America trades.

Main Objectives

Manage and oversee all service procurement operations throughout the Asia Region, supporting country areas regarding procurement related matters within our portfolio (Terminals, Transport, Inland and Feeders).

Function and duties

  • Properly develop a category management framework standard for the respective portfolio of responsibility
  • Serve as a supporting/leading role towards area offices in regards ongoing procurement activities, applying lean methodologies and overall best-fit procurement practices
  • Act as an escalation point from a regional perspective internally towards suppliers
  • Seek for synergies with vendor relations and businesses on a cross-country regional perspective
  • Properly liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure that procurement guidelines and intended performance post-process are followed through
  • Perform supplier market assessments in liaison with our area offices in order to gain proper benchmarking opportunities and aid on overall vendor/competition health in a particular scope
  • Support the areas with the usage/guidance of eProcurement tools developments applicable to the procurement process
  • Aid on preparation relevant analytics for sourcing events and decision-making evaluations (i.e., past performance, cost exposure, variations, supplier rankings, ABC analysis, etc)
  • Serve as guidance for tender and negotiation analytics that facilitate decision making on a procurement process, both for working and management level
  • Assist and lead on potential technologic developments that would have an impact on bottom-line results
  • Establishment and/or improvement of service level agreements within a respective scope
  • Connect the overall bigger picture from a regional perspective, to be able to obtain tangible cost synergies and efficiency

Qualifications and Technical Job Requirements

  • Minimum Diploma or with a Degree in Logistics and Supply chain.
  • With minimum experience of 5 years in the relevant field.
  • Knowledge of either procurement activities or shipping/maritime business.
  • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • Forward, proactive and “outside the box” thinking, to be able to identify and come up with proposals that can contribute to the procurement process and results
  • Ability to manage several ongoing procurement activities and/or ad-hoc negotiation requirements
  • Passion for analysis, information interpretation and handling, for proper value generation
  • Be able to create and maintain good relationship with relevant stakeholders and key suppliers
  • HH System:  FIS2, Compass, Qlikview, TRACO (Advantageous)

Contact person

Leonard Leong