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.

IT Run Optimisation

If you are interested Please share your resume to career.hltc@hlag.com

Role Description : 

This is a key role in enabling the transformation of IT to become a function which continuously improves functional outcomes of quality and cost efficiency.  It represents a great opportunity to join an organisation of significant scale that is transforming to a platform operating model and looking to modernise its traditional application landscape and needs a strong IT leader to help on that journey.

An experienced leader with a proven track record of running significant LEAN transformations will find this role appealing. 

A high-level role overview follows:

The leader of IT Run Optimisation will be accountable for:

  • Establishing the LEAN ways of working which enable IT Teams to optimise their IT run costs while effectively delivering the quality remit.
  • Establishing the processes which enable teams to work together to realise cross functional LEAN outcomes.
  • Coaching the teams in LEAN improvement methodologies to identify cost saving opportunities, and to continuously improve the cost position of their function.
  • Working with the Director of Run Efficiency to establish the program which manages the overall cost efficiency of IT Run costs across Hapag Lloyd.
  • Establishing the practices and ways of working across teams which identifies the drivers of cost, and continuously improves cost efficiency in responsible departments. 
  • Establishes the processes which enable teams to innovate with cost saving ideas and to pipeline initiatives supported by the required investment business cases.

Chennai has just recently been established as one of 3 global IT hubs for Hapag-Lloyd, and will be the global IT operations hub.  This role based in Chennai has responsibility globally for the implementation of the required LEAN practices to enable the continuous improvement of Run Cost efficiency.

Responsibility :

  • Establish the Lean practices required in IT teams required to optimise Run costs.
  • Train and Coach the teams in appropriate practices.
  • Establish the ways of working which ensure continuous improvement of run cost in the responsible functions.
  • Track baseline costs and the incremental benefit of improvement initiatives.
  • Support the Director of Run Efficiency to establish the program across IT to deliver an agreed target cost saving in Run Costs annually.

Stakeholders :

  • Platform Engineering Teams
  • Finance
  • IT Operations Teams

 

Contact person

Sunaimalar Arunjunaiselvam HR Talent Acquisition Manager