Integrated Logistics Continuous Improvement Manager

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 service offering and owning the CI program for the customer, aiming achievement of cost and cash savings in KNIL customer's supply chain. Leading business case development, providing status updates on CI program to Business Manager / customer, ensuring achievement of savings targets. Following approach to savings idea generation, validation and implementation based on KNIL experience and tailoring it to the specifics of the customer, as well as enrichment of the approach based on own best practices.

How you create impact

Problem Solving

- Responsible for identifying supply chain inefficiencies, developing business cases for improvement, and overseeing optimization project progress.
- This includes prioritizing initiatives, addressing resistance to change, resolving implementation barriers, and ensuring alignment of focus and resources to drive cost-saving measures.

Savings target setting

- Conducts end-to-end structural supply chain and value stream mapping to understand the customer's business, perform loss analysis, and identify strategic cost and cash-saving opportunities.
- Develops business cases, aligns on savings targets and timelines with the customer and Business Manager, and ensures resource adequacy and priority alignment to support successful execution.

Savings pipeline development

- Leads data-driven supply chain improvement by gathering, cleaning, and validating data, and facilitating idea generation through internal and external collaboration.
- Works closely with CI teams, procurement, logistics experts, and key customer stakeholders to define baselines, validate savings potential, and develop multiple savings scenarios.
- Builds a multi-year portfolio of projects, categorizing them by complexity and impact, and maintains a continuous pre-pipeline of initiatives for sustained improvement.

Savings status tracking

- Ensures alignment with the customer and Business Manager on savings calculation, tracking, and reporting methodologies.
- Manages savings trackers and visual dashboards (e.g., Tableau), organizes regular internal and external review meetings, and drives follow-through by maintaining action logs and converting pipeline ideas into actionable projects.

Savings delivery

- Oversees end-to-end savings realization, including testing, go-live execution, post-implementation support, and tracking of actual results.
- Leads project calls to ensure progress, addresses risks and resistance, and monitors project performance.
- Conducts gap analyses when results deviate from expectations and escalates issues to the customer or Business Manager when necessary to maintain momentum.

What we would like you to bring

- Proven track record in change management and/or project management (min. 5 years).
- Proven experience in all transportation modes.
- Proven experience in supply chain cost budgeting / optimization / value stream mapping.
- Proven experience in business case creation.
- Proven experience of cross regional or global collaboration in multinational environment.
- Preferred candidate to have Forwarding / Logistics background.

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel, you'll be part of a global logistics leader that believes in creating real impact-on business, on customers, and on careers. Here's what you can look forward to:

- Global Exposure: Step into a world of international opportunities with a presence in 100+ countries.
- People-Centric Culture: Join a team where your voice matters and people genuinely care.
- Learning & Development: Grow with us-personally and professionally-through world-class training and career pathways.
- Innovation & Sustainability: Be part of a future-focused company driving real change in logistics and the planet.
- Rewards & Recognition: Get rewarded for your passion, performance, and potential.
- Stability with Agility: Enjoy the best of both worlds-a trusted global brand with a startup spirit.

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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