About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, 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 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 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 deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

Introduction:

Our Manager (m/f/d) Regional Hub Operations ensures that we deliver operational quality as our containers transit through our hub ports. By aligning operational and asset capabilities in the hub under his/her control as well as regular performance management with the hub terminals, the position enables the smooth connection of our boxes through our network and aligns the commercial volume flows with operational requirements.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

  • Act as the command center in control of the operations in one of our defined hub ports
  • Drive Hapag-Lloyd’s cooperation with the hub and support in setting up capacity and operational capabilities, closely engage with the terminal with a performance-driven mindset to ensure smooth operation
  • Provide direction and guidance to our local operations and commercial and equipment teams on requirements to connect containers (full and empty) in our Hubs.
  • Ensure long-term planning (~three months) and executional plan (~four weeks) are aligned with all relevant stakeholders to allow productive hub operations
  • Responsible for consistent operations in ports (quay side, yard and gate operation), linked with speedy turnaround of vessels and reliable transshipment activities
  • Ensure volume flow projections are aligned with terminal limitations and where needed act as escalation and decision point to avoid any operational breakdown in our hubs
  • Act as lead in managing crisis and incidents impacting our container and vessel operations in our hub terminal

Requirements and Qualifications:

  • Experience in the shipping, terminal and/or logistics industry
  • Strategic and analytical thinking linked with strong stakeholder management
  • Independent decision-making and ability to lead and drive change
  • Team player, able to engage teams and strong argumentation skills
  • Fluent business English, both written and spoken

We offer:

  • Constantly new, responsible tasks, the opportunity to introduce solutions that you are personally convinced of
  • Excellent opportunities for further development, supported by a wide range of training and development opportunities
  • Competitive remuneration (13 salaries + vacation pay) and social benefits, as well as a permanent employment contract
  • At least 28 days of vacation, flextime, capital-forming benefits, company pension plan
  • Company restaurant with daily changing, high-quality dishes to choose from as well as coffee bar
  • Central location between the main train station and Jungfernstieg as well as subsidy for public transportation
  • Health and company sports programs (e.g. yoga, sailing, company doctor, etc.) as well as bicycle leasing
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