Business Development Lead NEC

maersk; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Maersk is hiring a Business Development leader for North Europe Continent MPL to accelerate sustainable growth of our Project Logistics offering across Benelux, DACH & Poland. The role is on-site in Hamburg, Germany or Rotterdam, Netherlands, and requires leading complex bids and coordinating with Sales, Solution Design and Operations.

The ideal candidate will drive revenue, profitability and market expansion, working with EPCs, OEMs and public-sector partners in a fast-paced, global logistics

Qualifikationen

• Strategic commercial mindset with proven revenue growth expertise.
• Strong project logistics knowledge across equipment types and transport modes.
• Experience qualifying and managing long-cycle opportunities balancing fit, profitability and risk.
• Data-driven approach to commercial decisions and negotiations.
• Strong ability to articulate complex logistics solutions as value propositions.

Aufgaben

• Deliver Area Project Logistics Revenue and GP targets across North Europe Continent.
• Define and execute the Area growth strategy including market penetration and pricing.
• Own opportunity qualification, pipeline governance, forecasting, and CRM discipline.
• Identify and engage in early-stage opportunities with EPCs, OEMs, and public-sector entities.
• Lead complex bid/proposal processes (RFI/RFQ/RFP) for profitable customer solutions.
• Oversee handover from Solution Design and Sales to Operations for execution readiness.
• Drive cross-border pipeline growth through collaboration across Areas and Regions.
• Support negotiations and contract reviews with Legal to manage commercial risk.
• Act as Project Logistics SME throughout the sales cycle with market intelligence.

Kenntnisse

Strategic mindset

Project logistics

Opportunity qualification

Data-driven

Solution selling

Stakeholder management

Prioritization

Travel readiness

English & German

Jobbeschreibung

We Offer :

This is an exciting opportunity to join the North Europe Continent MPL leadership team as Business Development to drive and accelerate the sustainable growth of our MPL offering and value proposition across Ben e lux, DACH & Poland . You will be joining an international, fast-paced, growth-oriented environment and get exposure to complex, global logistics operations with multiple stakeholders .

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for delivering the Area Project Logistics Revenue and GP targets in line with Budget , covering c ontainerized , breakbulk, heavy lift, OOG, RoRo, chartering, multimodal and other specialized cargo opportunities & contracts across the North Europe Continent market .
• Define and execute the Area growth strategy, including market penetration plans , target industries, customer pri oritization , pricing and profitability strategies to drive profitable growth aligned with regional and global objectives.
• Own opportunity qualification, pipeline governance, forecasting, and conversion across all customer segments and verticals, ensuring disciplined CRM management and pipeline development by Sales.
• Identify and engage in project opportunities at an early stage through EPCs, OEMs, public-sector entities, and other key stakeholders in the project ecosystem.
• Partner with Sales and Solution Design to lead complex bid and proposal processes (RFI, RFQ, RFP), ensuring commercially competitive, technically sound, compliant, and profitable customer solutions.
• Orchestrate and oversee structured handover by Solution Design and Sales to Operations teams, ensuring scope clarity, risk ownership, and execution readiness.
• Drive network pipeline growth through collaboration across Areas and Regions to identify, develop, and convert cross-border end-to-end opportunities.
• Support customer engagement, negotiations, contract reviews while managing commercial and contractual risks , together with Legal.
• Act as the Project Logistics S ubject M atter E xpert throughout the sales cycle to both internal and external stakeholders, providing market intelligence, customer insights and sales enablement capabilities
• Drive continuous improvement and voice-of-the-customer feedback through post-project reviews, win/loss analysis, lessons learned, and implementation of best practices to improve commercial performance, win ratios and customer outcomes.

What We Are Looking For

• Strategic commercial mindset with a proven track record of identify ing market opportunities, develop ing growt h, pricing and profitability strategies to deliver sustainable revenue and profit growth and meeting targets.
• Strong Project Logistics expertise across equipment types and transport modes together with a strong knowledge of the local project logistics market and key target customer accounts across main industry verticals (eg: renewables, construction, mining, defence, automotive and industrial manufacturing ) . Experience across regional trade corridors is an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to qualify and manage complex, long-cycle opportunities, balancing strategic fit, competitive positioning, profitability, compliance requirements and risk.
• Data-driven approach to commercial decision-making and contract negotiations to improve performance, forecasting accuracy and mitigate contractual risk exposure
• Strong solution-selling, customer engagement, and communication skills , able to translate complex logistics solutions into compelling commercial value propositions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and p roven ability to lead through influence within a matrix organization to align stakeholders across functions and seniority levels . Strong inter-personal skills in a multicultural environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, matrixial environment.
• Proactive and structured, with a solution-oriented approach and can-do attitude.
• Customer-facing travels in North Europe to be on a regular basis, ad-hoc travels within the area.
• Fluency in English and German (verbal and written)
• POSITION IS ON-SITE I N HAMBURG, GERMANY or ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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