Complex Sourcing Manager – Procurement Intelligence (m/f/d)

Hapag-Lloyd AG

Job Description

Food, machinery or T-shirts: Hapag-Lloyd moves goods around the globe with over 250 container ships. We connect more than 600 ports on all continents and are one of the largest liner shipping companies. More than 13,000 employees work on board, ashore or in one of our 350 offices. Together, we transport around 12 million containers per year. Our corporate values "We care. We move. We deliver" serve as coordinates on our way. They guide our collaboration with each other as colleagues and with our customers to achieve the best possible quality. In the long run, we are committed to climate and environmental protection as well as human rights and many other social issues.


  • Advise procurement community globally as main point of contact for advanced negotiations (RFI, RFQ, e-Auctions) in complex tender projects
  • Collaborate with category leads and other stakeholders to develop standardized tender templates (process, price sheet, supplier selection criteria and evaluation metrics)
  • Support category leads in planning, creating, executing and analyzing complex tenders in CSO (sourcing optimization tool) and e-Auctions and provide guidance throughout the tender process
  • Use analytics knowledge to support category leads in performing complex tender analysis in CSO (data analysis, optimization and awarding scenarios)
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify procurement categories suitable for e-Auction events (analyze spend data and market trends)
  • Perform strategic and operational trainings to procurement community improving understanding and daily usage of advanced negotiations and souring optimization
  • Monitor and analyze digital utilization to identity functional and process improvements to engage procurement community to drive further adoption
  • Drive constant knowledge enhancement, perform system configurations, manage releases and provide technical support
  • Act as focal point between our global procurement community and other stakeholders to support Hapag-Lloyd digital transformation

  • University degree in the field of business administration, logistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Informatics, alternatively, a comparable education or relevant work experience
  • Minimum of three years of experience in procurement functions with a focus on Source-to Contract processes
  • Experience with eProcurement suite and analytical tools
  • Experience with CSO – Coupa Sourcing Optimization
  • Advanced experience with complex sourcing analysis and sourcing optimization
  • Analytical mindset with good understanding of data analytics
  • Ability to bridge business needs with technical capabilities (problem solver)
  • Advanced negotiations (e-Auctions) and game theory is a plus
  • Strong analytical skills and high level of accuracy
  • Effective communicator, full professional oral and written proficiency in English
  • Result-oriented, team spirit with an independent working style, positive attitude and ability to work well under pressure

  • 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
  • Hybrid work model: 3 weekdays at our headquarters in the heart of Hamburg and 2 weekdays mobile work
  • Health and company sports programs (e.g. yoga, sailing, company doctor, etc.) as well as bicycle leasing
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