Digital Collaboration Team Leader

Are you passionate about shaping modern digital workplaces, enabling enterprise-wide collaboration, and leading a team of experts who transform how thousands of colleagues work every day? Do you thrive at the intersection of technology, user experience, and stakeholder partnership? If yes — join Hapag‑Lloyd’s global IT organization and lead the Digital Collaboration Team in Gdańsk! With over 1000 IT professionals worldwide driving innovation across cloud, workplace, and digital product domains, this role puts you at the center of Hapag‑Lloyd’s digital transformation journey. About the Role The Digital Collaboration Team Leader is responsible for driving the development, governance, and adoption of Microsoft 365, Power Platform, the company intranet, and custom collaboration solutions. You will lead a team of around 10 specialists who build secure, scalable, and user centric digital workplace services. This role blends people leadership, platform ownership, and strategic alignment - ensuring collaboration tools effectively support global business needs and follow enterprise standards, including M365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, and emerging AI driven capabilities such as Copilot. About the Digital Collaboration Team Our team partners closely with departments across Hapag‑Lloyd to: - Deliver intuitive and scalable digital collaboration solutions - Drive adoption of modern digital ways of working - Govern enterprise collaboration technologies (M365, intranet, automation tools) - Support business stakeholders through consulting, best practices, and continuous improvements The team values knowledge sharing, innovation, ownership, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Lead & Inspire

• Lead and develop a team of Digital Collaboration specialists, fostering a high‑performance culture built on ownership, learning, and empowerment. 
• Set the vision and roadmap for collaboration technologies across the organization.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and competency development for the team.

Shape the Digital Workplace and Partner with Business

• Support the evolution of the Microsoft 365 collaboration ecosystem (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power Platform), also by continuously scouting market and technology trends, evaluating new capabilities, and aligning adoption with Hapag Lloyd’s strategy and business needs. 
• Ensure secure, compliant, and scalable collaboration solutions by partnering with business units and stakeholders, guiding intranet and tool design, and managing demand and intake in line with global standards and platform governance.
• Drive the integration and piloting of new solutions and capabilities. 
• Identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and digitalization.

Qualifications

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years working with Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including governance, security, Teams, SharePoint, and Power Platform. 
• Experience with intranet governance, content lifecycle, and information architecture. 

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• Prior leadership experience — either as a team leader, chapter lead, technical lead, or senior specialist guiding others.
• Strong understanding of identity & access, lifecycle management, and compliance concepts in M365.
• Experience designing user centric collaboration solutions and structuring adoption or change management initiatives.
• Knowledge of AI enhanced digital workplace technologies (e.g., Copilot).
• Proven ability to translate digital workplace and collaboration technologies into clear business outcomes and measurable value.
• Strong experience quantifying and communicating value realization (e.g., ROI, TCO, adoption impact, productivity, efficiency, and cost optimization) linked to technology investments.
   

Mindset & Abilities

• A collaborative, user centric mindset with the ability to translate business needs into secure, scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactivity, ownership, and a passion for modern ways of working.
• Strong business acumen to bridge technical capabilities with business strategy and outcomes. 
• Ability to challenge and advise stakeholders using clear, financially grounded explanations of value, trade offs, risks, and long term impact of collaboration technologies.
   

 

We offer Knowledge Center in Gdansk
One of the goals of Hapag-Lloyd strategy, is to become more agile in the way we work and to create an environment in which we can make faster and innovative decisions. Knowledge Center in Gdansk enables the further accelerated growth, especially in the area of developing innovative digital solutions, agility and business centricity. To learn more, please check our website - https://knowledgecenter.pl/ 
We offer:

• Private medical care (Medicover)
• Gym card (Multisport)
• Attractive annual bonus up to 22,5% (depending on company performance results)
• Group life insurance and employee capital plan (PPK)
• Cafeteria benefit system (cinema tickets, vouchers etc.)
• Focus on healthy lifestyle (fruit days, bike competitions, football training)
• Charity and volunteer initiatives
• Modern and well-connected office (Alchemia complex in Gdańsk Oliwa)
• Relocation support (financial support, covering immigration process and polish-language lessons for non-Polish citizens)
• Internal learning management system
• Development budget (sharing the costs of certifications and conferences/ IT events)
• Flexible working hours and home office possibility (hybrid work model)
  

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.