CMA CGM, founded by Jacques R. Saadé, is a leading worldwide shipping group. Its 504 vessels call more than 420 ports in the world on all 5 continents. In 2017, they carried 19 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). Now headed by Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM enjoys a continuous growth and keeps offering its customers innovative maritime, terrestrial and logistics solutions. With a presence in 160 countries and through its 755 agencies network, the Group employs 30,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 in its headquarters in Marseilles. Since April 2017, CMA CGM is part of the Ocean Alliance – one of the biggest maritime shipping alliances in the world.

CMA CGM (Deutschland) GmbH is part of the worldwide agencies network and offers its clients modern services, efficiency and long-standing shipping expertise. Our agency provides customers with individual multimodal solutions and reliable door-to-door services. CMA CGM (Deutschland) GmbH consists of six agencies in the cities of Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart and is further responsible for agencies in Basel, Bratislava, Prague and Vienna. CMA CGM (Deutschland) GmbH is registered in Bremen. However, most departments are centralised in our largest office: in Hamburg – home of Germany’s biggest port and Northern Europe’s “gateway to the world”.

For more information visit www.cma-cgm.com

Outside Sales Representative (m/f)

Your responsibilities:

• Engage, manage and develop CMA CGM’s customer portfolio of high-touch and medium-touch customers as defined by customer segmentation and in line with company goals and directives
• Service customers to meet their shipping needs and to secure optimal support in terms of revenues and volumes, including soliciting maximum profitable business from existing, lost and new customers
• Achieve set sales budgets and targets
• Manage existing accounts and negotiations primarily through physical sales visits, but also through phone and written communication
• Convince new accounts to give their support to CMA CGM that meets directives and objectives as determined by Trades, Management, Sales Manager and Country Head of Commercial
• Have an account plan, prioritization or segmentation to ensure efforts are optimised for the right value customers, both current and prospects
• Negotiate rates that are favourable to both CMA CGM and customers
• Conduct market intelligence and external lead generation activities
• Manage internal negotiations with Trades
• Plan weekly sales itinerary and update sales calls and visits as well as results through SAP CRM system
• Plan contract negotiations and proactively seek strategy updated from Trades
• Handle and accomplish goals on project basis as assigned by Management, Country Head of Commercial and Head of Sales or Sales Manager
• If acting as the designated country contact for a key account, strive to achieve their targeted SLAs through continuous collaboration with Trades, Operations and Finance

You bring aboard:

• Several years‘ experience within the shipping or logistic industry
• Ideally first experience in outside sales activities
• Experience in building relationships and networks
• MS Office knowledge
• Fluency in English
• Good judgment and decision-making abilities
• Functional and technical skills
• Strong communication skills and customer orientation
• Integrity

What we offer:

• Unlimited working contract with a long-term perspective
• International working environment
• Company pension scheme
• Allowance for capital-forming benefits

If you are interested, please send your letter of motivation and CV with salary expectation and earliest date of entry as a PDF file via email to [email protected].

CMA CGM (Deutschland) GmbH
Human Resources
Natalie Kuhlmann or Marie Kaul
Kleiner Burstah 12
20457 Hamburg
Germany
Shipping Agency