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.
Deploying and leading the CI (Continuous Improvement) service offering and owning the CI program for the customer, aiming achievement of cost and cash savings in KNIL customer’s supply chain.
Leading business case development, providing status updates on CI program to Business Manager / customer, ensuring achievement of savings targets. Following approach to savings idea generation, validation and implementation based on KNIL experience and tailoring it to the specifics of the customer, as well as enrichment of the approach based on own best practices
How you create impact
- Identification of customer’s supply chain inefficiencies and driving business cases
- Monitoring optimization project status, escalations in case of slow / lack of progress, definition of priorities, alignment on focus areas and resources
- Eliminating barriers on the way to implement savings projects
- Structural supply chain mapping / understanding of customer’s business end-to-end
- Value stream mapping
- Loss analysis, identification of strategic savings areas (cost / cash)
- Business case development
- Alignment on savings targets with the customer and Business Manager (value and timelines)
- Ensuring sufficiency of resources, priorities in alignment with Business Manager
- Alignment on approach to savings calculation, tracking, reporting with customer / Business Manager
- Organizing savings tracker – underlying working files and visualization in Tableau dashboard (e.g. customizing IL CI standard templates, Corp CI Tracker)
- Setting up regular internal / external meetings to provide update on savings program status (e.g. QBR/MBR or dedicated CI meetings)
- Ensure ideas/pre pipeline will be transformed into projects
- Leading action log after savings review meeting, following up on execution of actions.
What we would like you to bring
- Professional in logistics, finance or engineer.
- Proven experience in all transportation modes (atleast 2 years)
- Proven track record in change management and/or project management
- Proven experience in supply chain cost budgeting / optimization / value stream mapping
- Proven experience in business case creation
- Proven experience of cross regional or global collaboration in multinational environment
- Fluent in English (written and verbal)
- Excel proficiency
Please apply with a CV in English
What's in it for you
As undisputed leaders in this sector, we foster a diverse, collaborative environment powered by cutting‑edge technologies, where you will work alongside highly motivated, customer‑focused colleagues from all around the world!
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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