Supply Chain Optimization Manager - Integrated Logistics
Job Description
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, with a strong focus on global supply chain optimization, transportation strategy, and cost & cash savings across KNIL customer’s end-to-end supply chain. Leading business case development, providing strategic status updates on CI program to Business Manager / customer, ensuring achievement of savings targets. Driving a structured approach to identification, validation, and implementation of optimization opportunities, leveraging KNIL expertise and advanced knowledge of global logistics and transportation networks, while tailoring solutions to the customer’s specific business needs.
How you create impact
- Identification of customer’s supply chain inefficiencies and optimization opportunities
- Driving high-impact business cases focused on cost reduction, routing optimization, and service improvement
- Monitoring optimization project status, managing escalations, defining priorities, and aligning resources to ensure delivery
- Eliminating barriers to the implementation of savings and optimization initiatives
- Developing deep end-to-end understanding of customer’s global supply chain network, including suppliers, routes, and modes
- Value stream mapping and logistics network analysis
- Alignment on savings targets, timelines, resources and implementation roadmap with customer and Business Manager
- Alignment on savings calculation methodology, tracking, and reporting with customer / Business Manager
- Organizing savings tracker and visualization in Tableau dashboard (e.g. customizing IL CI standard templates, Corp CI Tracker)
- Leading regular internal/external governance meetings (e.g. QBR/MBR, CI reviews) with a consultative and advisory approach
What we would like you to bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Finance
- Strong experience in global logistics and supply chain optimization (preferred 5+ years)
- Proven expertise in multiple transportation modes, with strong focus on air and ocean freight operations, routing, and carrier management
- Demonstrated track record in delivering cost savings and optimization initiatives in complex, international supply chains
- Proven experience in change management and/or project management in a cross-regional or global environment
- Strong experience in supply chain cost optimization, budgeting, and value stream mapping
- Fluent in English (written and verbal)
- Advanced Excel skills (Tableau or analytics tools is a plus)
Please apply with a CV in English
What's in it for you
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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