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About the role:

This position leads the Cameroon organization with the objective to optimize sales growth and contribution, also achieving operational and financial targets, creating superior value for our customers in their respective markets. To oversee all aspects of Hapag-Lloyd operation in Cameroon, while maintaining a high level of service to customers, measuring and monitoring vendor and staff performance and controlling overall operational costs. 

To consciously establish a culture within the Cameroon team that encourages customer centricity, individual development, innovation, efficiency, collaboration, and agility, achieving excellent performance, ensuring a fair, integral, compliant and sustainable behaviour and empowering his/her direct reports and all other Cameroon employees so they can fully deploy their potential, nurturing an environment that triggers a continuous improvement of Hapag-Lloyd’s processes, projects and strategy. 

To ensure that all Hapag-Lloyd policies and procedures as well as local applicable laws and regulations are followed. The role is also responsible to achieve KPI for Operations, Sales, BA and CS with special focus on operational efficiency and operational cost savings.

Your Responsibility:

  • Directing country sales efforts to maximize both volume and contribution levels and providing pricing policy and guidelines to assist in achieving the goals of the company
  • Develop untapped markets and commodities
  • Effectively manage and monitor sales performances
  • Build strong customer relationships through regular visits and engagements, and excel networking to maintain a strong network of internal and external relationships
  • Implementation and Management of Hapag-Lloyd organizational structure and process
  • Maintain working knowledge of all governmental rules and regulations
  • Provide resolution of high-level concerns
  • Ensure compliance of legal/tax aspects of the processes in the area
  • Ensure strict compliance of Local laws and regulations
  • Ensure strict compliance of Hapag-Lloyd Guidelines & Policies
  • Review and guide progress of cost saving initiatives and operational priorities
  • Work closely with other area Directors on process improvement and communication flow
  • Identification of additional cost saving potentials
  • Keep overhead costs under control / in line with budget
  • Coach and develop individual department managers and staff. Have regular performance reviews in line with company policy and management requirements
  • Ascertain that the workload is balanced amongst the various disciplines within each department
  • Oversee credit policy to minimize the risk of bad debt loss
  • Ensure that managers and staff are maintaining department standards, measures, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for customer service, striving for consistent improvement
  • Monitor and maintain close contact with shared services (GSC & QSC) to ensure customer service performance level is achieved
  • Constant review of working processes and improving productivity and efficiency
  • Ensure to grow the HL market position in Senegal other functional directors about Sales, CS Operational and BA issues
  • Recruit, develop and retain local staff. Ensure to have the ‘right’ staff members in the right positions

Your Profile:

  • University degree in Business Administration, Sales Management, Marketing or related field preferred
  • 10 to 15 years of comprehensive experience in liner shipping business and General Management
  • Good customer contacts / contacts with Local Authorities like customs / Terminals / ports and vendors
  • Scheduled and regular customer visits and relationship management
  • Regular port visits and relationship management
  • Knowledge of main trade lanes, terminals and ICDs
  • Strong teamwork and interaction with Sales, Customer Service, Operations and Business Administration departments, with a view to find synergies across departments
  • Management experience and good organizational skills
  • Proven experience and success in project management or change management
  • Exceptional ability to inspire and motivate people
  • Comprehensive knowledge of user application systems (FIS, SAM, MS Office)
  • Capability to fluently speak, read and write in English and French

We Offer:

  • The opportunity to introduce solutions that you are personally convinced of, and to constantly take on new challenges with a high level of responsibility
  • Excellent career development opportunities, supported by a wide range of training and development courses
  • Competitive remuneration
  • Good working environment

Mit einer Flotte von 258 modernen Containerschiffen und einer Gesamttransportkapazität von 1,9 Millionen TEU ist Hapag-Lloyd eine der weltweit führenden Linienreedereien. Das Unternehmen ist mit rund 14.000 Mitarbeitenden an Standorten in 135 Ländern mit knapp 400 Büros präsent. Hapag-Lloyd verfügt über einen Containerbestand von 2,9 Millionen TEU – inklusive einer der größten und modernsten Kühlcontainerflotten. Weltweit 115 Liniendienste sorgen für schnelle und zuverlässige Verbindungen zwischen mehr als 600 Häfen auf allen Kontinenten. Hapag-Lloyd gehört in den Fahrtgebieten Transatlantik, Mittlerer Osten, Lateinamerika sowie Intra-Amerika zu den führenden Anbietern.

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Vera Nyumutsu