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.

Reports to Sr. Manager Allocation Management

Role: 

To ensure that vessel utilization is maximized with full and empty containers in order to achieve maximum optimization of the vessel space for inter-port moves and cross-ocean activity

Responsibilities:

  • ·        Coordinate and optimise utilisation for the vessels within Region Middle East across all allocation scopes (trades), all Geo forms for full and empty containers
  • ·        Responsible for Allocation and Capacity Management on designated Ship Systems / Trades
  • ·        Creation of Voyage Allocations and Customer Allocations as per alignment with TM Pricing & Steering
  • ·        Define allocation management steering measures to control the booking uptake in line with the trade strategy (e.g. managing contribution baselines for cargo acceptance)
  • ·        Monitor and predict the voyage utilisation based on booking developments and initiate corrective measures where required
  • ·        Monitor key connections between services at transshipment ports and initiate corrective booking acceptance measures where required.
  • ·        Monitor the uptake and follow up with relational TMPS and internally with TM Cargo Controllers handling other SSYs
  • ·        Handle waitlisted shipments
  • ·        Prioritise cargoes for loading/shut out when required considering commercial rules as well as operational and cost aspects
  • ·        Drive the performance for the Cargo Control KPIs – utilization, QP3 fast booking response, QP7 Loaded as booked and dwell time reduction
  • ·        Reduce operational costs resulting out of our cargo flows to a minimum (renominations, storage)
  • ·        Liaising with ship planners (own or partner line) on space related topics and operational restrictions (e.g. draft, ballast & bunker, stack weight, etc)
  • ·        Responsible for special cargo approval applications (e.g. OOG, Flexi tank) to planners/partner lines
  • ·        Liaise with QSCs and GCC for Customer Service related topics (e.g. vessel balancing) as well as Cargo Operations topics (e.g. terminal build up, load lists)
  • ·        Cooperate closely with TM Pricing & Steering and the Commercial Organisation (e.g. Global Account Management, Commercial Steering) regarding booking development and respective market situation
  • ·        Liaise with the Commercial Organisation (Regional Commercial, Global Sales) regarding uptake performance push
  • ·        Consultation on required schedule recovery measures in collaboration with Operations
  • ·        Create tactical forecasts where required as per joint working procedures considering expected booking development also on connecting services
  • ·        Provide input to capacity requirements when needed e.g. shuttle or feeder space requirements.

Qualifications:

  • ·        Degree in Shipping, Transportation or related discipline
  • ·        Minimum 3 years’ experience in liner shipping/ transportation industry
  • ·        Operational background and Trade Management or Commercial Steering experience welcome
  • ·        Comprehensive knowledge about HL applications (FIS, Qlik.)
  • ·        Proficient in MS-Office products (Excel, PowerPoint)
  • ·        Analytical, systematic and efficient way of working
  • ·        Motivated, proactive and reliable
  • ·        Willing to take ownership of tasks and responsibility
  • ·        Team player with strong communication skills
  • ·        Excellent negotiations skills and assertiveness
  • ·        Acceptance of flexible working times also on holidays/weekends
  • ·        Experience in dealing with different stakeholder groups
  • ·        Ability to develop and implement new concepts and structures
  • ·        Knowledge about Hapag-Lloyd’s global product offering (Network & Partners)
  • .      Fluent in spoken and written English

Technical skills:

  • ·        Knowledge of the shipping industry
  • ·        Knowledge of Container terminal Operation
  • ·        Knowledge of vessel Operation
  • ·        Knowledge of vessel sharing agreement

Work-life balance:

  • ·        Job holder should expect to carry out his/her duties even beyond the office working hours.
  • ·        To ensure the business continuity, weekends/ public holiday duties will be assigned to the job holder based on the business needs and workload management.

Contact person

Manju Ann Varghese Senior Manager HR