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.

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Manage and optimise utilisation for the vessels within Region XXX across all allocation scopes (trades), all Geo Froms 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.

Job requirements

  • 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
  • Teamplayer 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)

Contact person

Leonard Leong