Kuehne+Nagel | 20.12.2023 | Noord-Brabant

Innovation Project Manager

Jobomschrijving

We are offering an Innovation Project Manager position within our contract logistics team. If you want to contribute as a Project Manager in one of the most successful logistics organizations, this is a great opportunity to join our Innovation team!

Your Role

You will have a leading role in the area of Innovation and digitalization. You will be responsible for coordinating cutting-edge logistics process improvements, setting up pilot projects and building and sharing knowledge throughout the organization.

Your Responsibilities

• Analyzing, investigating and designing innovative and/or digitalized logistic process improvements;
• Deep diving into the innovation and digitalization tools and link these to process improvement opportunities based on business case calculations;
• Managing projects broadly to implement improvement projects for ongoing innovation and digitalization of logistics operations, including stakeholder management; Setting up and implementing pilot projects;
• Building a knowledge center and sharing this knowledge throughout the organization;
• Guiding and supporting the operational teams to develop knowledge concerning digitalization and innovation;
• Facilitating and fostering the Continuous Improvement process and culture across the KN sites.

Your Skills and Experiences

• Master’s degree in the area of logistics or equal level, and at least 3 years of experience in logistics;
• Strong interest in innovation and digitalization, expertise in this domain is an asset; experienced in tools such as Driver Desk and yard management, Robotic Process Automation, Digital training platform, Automated dimensioner, voice enabled quality control, pick by weight;
• Solid knowledge of and profound expertise in project management with a variety of stakeholders;
• Skilled in process analysis, improvements and building relevant business cases;
• Self-motivated and result driven personality, autonomous working and hands-on mentality; Analytical thinking, strong communicator with internal and external stakeholders;
• Fluent in English (mandatory), Dutch is an asset;
• You are willing to travel in BeNeLux in relation to different projects.

Good Reasons to Join

We offer you a challenging position in a vibrant work environment where development and progress are a priority. Additional to opportunities for professional learning, you will learn to work with cutting-edge IT systems. You will join an ambitious and dynamic team, within a pleasant and casual working climate. You start with an open-ended contract at a competitive salary, complemented with meal vouchers, hospitalization and group insurance.

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