It's more than a job
As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.
This Operational Contract Manager is responsible for managing end-to-end warehouse operations for a key global IT customer, ensuring strong operational performance, customer satisfaction, and financial control.
This role owns the contract at site level and ensures that operational execution aligns with customer expectations, KPI's, and commercial objectives.
How you create impact
- Manage, plan, organise, staff, and direct warehouse operations to ensure operational readiness and efficiency.
- Drive performance against KPIs across cost, productivity, service, and profitability.
- Ensure team performance aligns with customer, site, and people KPI's.
- Own customer onboarding, retention, and ongoing operational excellence at contract level.
- Drive continuous improvement and productivity initiatives across warehouse operations.
- Prepare and present regular customer operational and performance updates.
- Contribute to tender and proposal inputs to support business growth.
- Prepare P&L reporting with commentary on financial and service performance.
- Lead, train, and development teams, ensuring succession planning capability development.
- Liase with internal stakeholders and external partners including carriers, freight fowarders, and suppliers.
What we would like you to bring
- 7-12 years' experience in Contract Logistics, warehousing, or supply chain operations management.
- Experience managing customer-facing contracts or operational accounts within a 3PL enviroment.
- Strong understanding of warehouse KPI's, productivity, and service delivery.
- Commercial awareness with exposure to budgeting or P&L ownership.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience in process-driven, high-volume, customer-focused enviroments.
- Exposure to large enterprise or technology customers is highly desirable.
What's in it for you
Along with a competitive remuneration package, we want to make sure our employees are motivated in all aspects. Here in Kuehne+Nagel Australia, we pride ourselves in taking care of our employees with benefits such as:
- Corporate rates for Private Health Care Insurance
- Free Flu Vaccination Program
- Inclusive Gender-Neutral Parental Leave Policy
- Attractive long-service awards
- Novated leasing
- Charity and volunteering events
And more!
If you're ready to take on this exciting opportunity and make a difference, apply now and become a part of our dynamic team!
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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