Job Description
Global Sea Logistics ISC Solution Design Specialist

It's more than a job

As a member of the Freight Forwarding team Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in transporting goods, optimising processes, and fulfilling our customers' promises. And by transporting medicines, toys and important machine parts, you are not only delivering goods, you are making small and big moments possible for people all around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

You will be part of our Global International Supply Chain team, enabling our customers to optimize their supply chains through our order management + sea transportation management solutions.

How you create impact

Your primary objective is to deliver sustainable and profitable growth for the International Supply Chain (ISC) by partnering with ISC Business Development and subject matter experts as needed in supporting customer acquisition, retention and upselling for complex opportunities across sales channels.

  • To assist in collaborating, empowering + inspiring a high performing solution design team.
  • To act as the product expert for the onboarding of ISC customers
  • To drive global migration plans for Infor Nexus and ESP, providing visibility of progress and risks
  • To support hemisphere and national onboarding activities, as and when required 
  • To drive the ISC onboarding tracker focusing on time, risk, cost, NPS score and volumes.  
  • To grow lessons learnt and case studies library related to new ISC business onboarding projects.  
  • To provide training, coaching and consultancy to community members and external parties in the context of ISC projects
  • To execute internal (hemisphere and country) and external solution design ensuring all opportunities are fully scoped ensuring solution designs are operationally and technically sound and scalable in line with commercial policy.
  • To review and approve solution design submitted for ISC commercial onboarding process.
  • To review and document detailed solution design output including end to end process and scope of work.
  • To review and document risks associated with customer needs vs. company capabilities operationally and technically.
  • To act as a Stage gate for all Solution Design Operational Sign off as per process with both hemispheres
  • To execute customer presentation of solution, ensuring alignment with agreed and signed off solution.
  • To estimate onboarding requirements according to the solution scope, guiding the timelines for planning and executing implementations.
  • To monitor and control that solutions are onboarded in line with what was designed and sold to the customer through implementation to operations.
  • To support business development in short-, medium- and long-term commercial strategy.
  • To support the creation and maintenance of the solution design toolkit and technical demonstration disciplines
  • To deliver technical demonstrations are consistent, in line with key ISC messaging and tailored value propositions for customers and all organizational levels.
  • To execute strategic ISC management projects when and as required including acting as RIM as and when required for complex ISC Implementation 

What we would like you to bring

We aim to be the best company to work for + with. Your day will be varied as you inspire + empower our network to attract + pursue companies to optimize their supply chains by implementing our order management + sea transportation management solutions.

Start your day by reviewing the progress on the sales pipeline, designing solutions, formulate value propositions + support negotiations to close new business.

You hand over the detailed solution specifications to the implementation team to successfully implement + onboard new customers, allowing operations to consistently deliver against the value proposition as well as Service Level Agreements.

Next, review the operational + financial performance of existing customers, seeking to improve service delivery + profitability through supply chain value engineering + revenue management.

Finally, use your market insights + lessons learned to continuously evolve our products, systems, processes + infrastructure to the benefit of our customers.

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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