Sales Team Lead / Sales Manager at Hapag-Lloyd AG

Hapag-Lloyd - With a fleet of 258 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 1.9 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. The Company has around 14,000 employees and 400 offices in 135 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 2,9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 115 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports on all the continents. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the leading operators in the Transatlantic, Middle East, Latin America and Intra-America trades.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales Team Lead / Sales Manager

Job Identification: 2763
Location: Lagos
Job Category: Sales
Worktime Model Only: Full Time

About the Job

• This individual directly with customers aiming to develop, secure and maintain the most profitable business for Hapag-Lloyd in accordance with the company’s objectives.
• The purpose of Sales Execution is to produce optimum contributions for Hapag-Lloyd by maintaining and enhancing Hapag-Lloyd’s customer’s base through offering products that satisfy customers’ needs.
• Sales Execution interface with Sales Steering, Sales Support, Customer Service, Operations and Finance. Key challenges and satisfaction come from understanding the customers’ needs and wants, fulfilling customer requests, and meeting budget.

Responsibilities

• Developing budget within designated territory.
• Soliciting potential customers; developing existing customers; servicing and maintaining all accounts within assigned territory.
• Evaluate customer potential and conduct MR sales planning.
• Developing a sales pipeline to align to company aspirations and optimize vessel utilization in view of volume and profitability.
• Developing account plans (pursuit plans)
• Logging appointments, client contact in CRM.
• Monthly cycle of planning volumes by customer and trade relations.
• Developing and maintaining excellent internal relationships that enhance customer experience.
• Identifying backup/support and delegating as necessary, for e.g., problem solving goes to customer services.
• Manage and grow portfolio of customers and opportunities.
• Cover MR and GEO from Customers (push –pull) as defined in areas sales steering concept.
  Deal directly with customers to develop, secure and maintain most profitable business
• Conduct sales planning and performance management as defined in enhanced sales process including account regular/ GAM NVO GAM/ BCO
• Where appropriate for their market, serve as specialist e.g. reefer, commodity, import etc.
• Prepare and conduct visits, report and follow up on visits
• Conclude contracts for MR customers (proposal, negotiations and closing)
• Record commitments (tender tracking / commercial)
• Drive CU business for foreign MR’s and adhere to push pull process
• Selectively engage in TM discussions on important matters e.g. tender guidance and negotiations, special commodity market rates etc.
• Feedback market information and give clear information to sales coordination regarding pricing requirements to enable future communications with TM and handover to customer service.
• Coordinating credit applications in coordination with Sales Management and Finance
• Completing weekly activity reports to be tabled and discussed during weekly 1on1 with line manager
• Any other Sales related tasks as requested by the Management

Qualifications
Education:

• University Degree Experience
• 5-7 years’ Specific Experience
• Experience in a commercial role, preferably in the maritime sector
• Prior experience or advanced knowledge of Northern and Eastern Nigeria markets

Technical Knowledge:

• Sales mentality / proactive / negotiating and closing skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Communicative
• E-commerce aptitude
• Knowledge of user application systems (MS Office, Scout, Compass, FIS, SAM)
• Good command of spoken and written English.

Core Competencies:
Personality:

• Assertive negotiator
• Team player with a proactive attitude
• Result Driven
• Persuasiveness
• Empathy
• Ability to communication and collaboration
• Ability to work under pressure, goal and deadline driven
• Flexible
• Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses and capacity for self-criticism
• Representative

Conceptional and entrepreneurial thinking and action:

• Acknowledge signals
• Multi-dimensional thinking
• Courage to make decisions and accepting responsibility

Positive image to customers and colleagues to:

• Capacity to support and inspire
• Open and honest attitude

Application Closing Date
8th July, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online