Global Project Logistics Operations Manager (m / f / d)

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It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

At Kuehne+Nagel, we’re looking for a Global Project Logistics Operations Manager (f / m / d) to orchestrate complex operations on a worldwide stage. If leading innovation, driving efficiency, and shaping the future of project logistics excites you, this is your chance to make an impact where it truly matters.

How you create impact

• Develop and implement global operational strategies aligned with the Project Logistics Roadmap, ensuring optimized and standardized processes across all assigned countries.
• Lead and continuously improve operational teams (Pricing, Customer Excellence, Revenue Care, Project Control Towers, and Operational Care Centers) to ensure profitability and high-quality service delivery.
• Drive process optimization and operational excellence, including procedure standardization, continual improvement initiatives, profitability analysis, and project controlling.
• Support customer and business implementations by managing onboarding processes, deploying standard operating procedures, and fostering strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate extensively with global and national teams, including functional units (Air, Sea, Road, Contract Logistics, Finance, QSHE), key account management, customers, suppliers, carriers, and service centers.
• Provide hands-on leadership in dynamic logistics environments, including on-site project oversight, direct interaction with operational teams, and active participation in improvement initiatives.
• Champion digital transformation initiatives to enhance efficiency and innovation across project logistics operations.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in growth strategy and change management, ensuring successful adaptation to evolving business needs.

What we would like you to bring

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel, you get to grow your expertise, shape processes and deliver innovative solutions. We are continuously building our local and global network and our product portfolio, creating career opportunities in different fields of work worldwide. As a leader in the logistics industry, we provide a collaborative and IT-driven environment where you will work with motivated and customer-centric colleagues across the world. We look forward to receiving your comprehensive online application.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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