Director (m/f/d) IT Transformation Office

Hapag-Lloyd; Hamburg; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading global shipping company seeks a Director for the IT Transformation Office in Hamburg. This role involves overseeing the modernization of the IT operating model and managing strategic projects to enhance efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a university degree in business or technology, extensive project management experience, and strong analytical and communication skills. This position offers excellent career development opportunities along with competitive remuneration, blended work models, and health programs.

Leistungen

Competitive remuneration

28 days of vacation

Company pension plan

Health programs

Blended work model

Qualifikationen

• Experience in planning and implementing strategy or transformation programs.
• Proven track record in managing and leading project teams.
• Results-oriented with a systematic and creative way of thinking.

Aufgaben

• Oversee the modernization of the operating model in the global IT organization.
• Manage strategic projects independently.
• Lead project teams and provide thought leadership on strategic topics.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Analytical thinking

Strong communication skills (English)

Ausbildung

University degree in business, technology, or similar

Jobbeschreibung

Director (m/f/d) IT Transformation Office

Hamburg, Germany

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Job Description

Hapag-Lloyd Global IT is developing, integrating and operating industry leading IT systems that form the backbone of our global logistics business and are a key enabler in achieving Hapag-Lloyd’s ambitious Strategy 2030 of becoming the industry’s undisputed “#1 for quality”.

To achieve our mission, we are partnering closely with our global business and are operating out of three major technology centres in Hamburg, Gdansk and Chennai. We continue our transformation towards complete cloudification of all our core systems, a standardized and mature agile way of working and applying state-of-the-art DevSecOps practices across our portfolio.

As Director (m/f/d) Transformation Office with focus on IT transformation, you will take charge of exciting initiatives geared towards further evolving our global organization. You will work with motivated individuals and teams from across the organization and manage stakeholders inside and outside IT to create lasting impact and measurable benefit for our IT and business.

Responsibilities

• You head the IT transformation office orchestrating and overseeing the modernization of the operating model in the global IT organization
• You manage strategic projects independently – or run workstreams as part of larger strategy, and transformation programs, examples
  • Improving the collaboration model between global IT locations
  • Optimizing the overall structure of the IT organization for lean and effective setup
  • Improve the investment allocation process
• You support and work through senior projects stakeholders – senior managers and senior external consultants and advisors
• You guide and steer project teams at pace (either with dedicated staffing, or in their line organization) in a true “leading from behind” manner
• You create high visibility and control of ongoing strategy or transformation activities – by setting up and leading project governance
• You provide thought leadership on major strategic topics, in the running of a technology organization
• You support the Head of IT in orchestrating the IT Senior Leadership Team, and preparing for IT Board meetings
  

Qualifications

• University degree in business, economics, technology, logistics, finance, engineering, natural sciences or a similar subject
• Experience in project management including planning and implementation of strategy or transformation programs
• Proven track record in managing and leading project teams
• Results-oriented, rigorous go-getter – with a systematic and creative way of thinking
• Very strong and independent analytic thinker – with business sense to “get things done”
• Strong oral and written communication skills (in English) and experience in communicating with various audiences including top management
  

About Us

With a fleet of 313 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.5 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 14,000 employees and 400 offices in 140 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 3.7 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 133 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports on all the continents. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has equity stakes in 21 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India and North Africa. Around 3,000 employees are assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations in addition to the terminal activities.

We offer:

• The opportunity to introduce solutions that you are individually convinced of, and to constantly take on fresh challenges with a distinguished level of responsibility
• Excellent career development opportunities, supported by a spacious range of training and development courses
• Competitive remuneration (13 salaries plus vacation pay)and various additional benefits with a financially healthy company
• A minimum of 28 days of vacation, flextime, capital-forming benefits, company pension plan
• Company restaurant with everyday fluctuating, great-quality dishes to choose from as well as coffee bar
• Centrally located between the main train station and Jungfernstieg as well as subsidized public transportation
• Blended work model: 3 days a week at our headquarters in the heart of Hamburg and 2 days a week of mobile work
• Health and company sports programs (e.g. yoga, sailing, company doctor, etc.) as well as bicycle leasing

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Job Info

• Job Identification 1810
• Job Category IT
• Posting Date 12/16/2025, 03:06 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift No
• Locations Ballindamm 25, Hamburg, 20095, DE