Area Contract Logistics Manager

As a Contract Logistics Specialist at Kuehne+Nagel, you will manage end-to-end warehousing operations for customers, ensuring success in the warehouse and distribution centers. Your role will involve storing and delivering delicate flowers and fresh ingredients to local stores for everyday lunches and family celebrations, contributing to more than imagined at Kuehne+Nagel. **Key Responsibilities:** - Own the growth strategy for developing and expanding products, supported by a cohesive Real Estate strategy and understanding of customer needs. - Act as a partner to customers, understanding their short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals to provide necessary support. - Offer an extraordinary customer experience journey, ensuring full engagement from your team. - Ensure financial targets are achieved or surpassed, anticipating deviations and promptly communicating progress, challenges, and opportunities to senior management. - Define and approve service level agreements with customers, monitor and report on them for continual improvement. - Ensure organizational efficiency in terms of productivity and seasonality while fostering team development. - Stay updated on automation, seek innovative solutions, leverage technology, digitize operations, and keep abreast of market developments and customer demands. **Qualifications Required:** - Minimum of 15 years of experience in logistics or supply chain, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within contract logistics. - Proven track record of P&L ownership and business growth. - Experience in managing large-scale warehouse or distribution operations. - Strategic thinker with excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills. - Deep understanding of warehousing, distribution models, WMS/TMS systems, and automation technologies. At Kuehne+Nagel, you will be part of a global logistics leader with a people-centric culture that values your growth and development. You can look forward to global exposure, a supportive team environment, learning opportunities, innovation, sustainability initiatives, rewards for your performance, and stability with agility. Your work at Kuehne+Nagel will contribute to more than just logistics, enabling both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people worldwide.,