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.
You will be part of our Management Team, adding your leadership expertise + entrepreneurial skills to the delivery of customer + operational excellence, ensuring business profitability within the Sea Freight division.
How you create impact
You will be responsible for providing leadership to your team by overseeing + driving the overall business development objectives in relation to sales, revenue + growth targets.
What we would like you to bring
- To drive business development by reviewing the sales pipeline, identifying new business opportunities + improving underperforming business, while overseeing the implementation of customer standard operating procedures (SOP) to drive customer excellence.
- To track our training curriculum, ensuring a stable + capable organisation with pipelines in place for all key positions.
- To ensure operations are managed within the regulatory requirements, company guidelines, industry standards + management guidance, liaising with QSHE to ensure audit readiness at all times.
- To ensure that regional + corporate initiatives are being understood, championed + implemented.
- To be the local face of sea logistics to all key vendors + customers, actively nurturing those relationships.
- To actively collaborate with + across the region to improve the business operating environment through best practice sharing, talent development + sustainable solutions.
- To drive a healthy forwarding sub-ledger, regularly analyzing profit + loss reports while ensuring target achievement, focusing on the cost of production + financial targets.
- To set up procurement + pricing strategies to h
What's in it for you
- An opportunity to leverage your strong customer and stakeholder management skills, financial acumen, and leadership capabilities to drive results and lead a team toward shared goals.
- A role that recognizes and builds on your deep market knowledge and understanding of operations, products, and services, positioning you as a trusted leader with real impact across the business.
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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