Contract Logistics Operations Manager

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you play an important role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you are managing a team, developing processes, or leading projects, your work ensures that our customers' products are carefully stored, processed, and delivered. From everyday essentials to seasonal products—what we do within Contract Logistics has an impact on businesses and communities worldwide. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes beyond the daily operation and you make a direct contribution to how goods find their way around the world.

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You ensure that the returns of a major player in the food sector are efficiently processed in our resource center in Pijnacker. For this, you are responsible for the operations of a continuous business (3 shifts with +/- 150 employees) where various production processes take place. Important in this is that, in addition to managing the daily operation, you realize improvements within your department that support our business continuity.

• Analyzes and improves employee performance to increase team effectiveness.

• Stimulates awareness of own functioning, work attitude, and collaboration within the team and towards customers.

• Ensures the development of knowledge, skills, and expertise within the team and assesses the performance of employees and the team.

• Takes responsibility for results in complex situations and supports less experienced colleagues in finding solutions.

• Transfers knowledge, guides decision-making, and creates a safe learning environment in which mistakes are part of development.

• Implements new systems, instruments, and improvement initiatives, translates policy into operations, and creates support for changes.

• Executes complex assignments with high risk of disruption and possesses profound expertise and a strong helicopter view.

• Analyzes complex problems, develops sustainable solutions, and actively gathers new knowledge for future challenges.

• Provides direction, guidance, and where necessary authority to effectively guide individual employees and teams.
• Identifies development needs, stimulates growth, and supports employees in their professional development.
• Monitors the progress and quality of activities and provides timely constructive feedback.
• Independently plans activities, sets priorities, and formulates realistic and result-oriented goals.
• Works in a structured and planned manner towards achieving objectives, with effective use of time and resources. Monitors progress, evaluates results, and adjusts activities to realize desired outcomes.
• Communicates effectively by actively listening, summarizing, and asking follow-up questions, tailored to different target groups.
• Shows empathy, takes the interests of others into account, and transfers knowledge clearly through conversations, presentations, and written communication.

At Kuehne+Nagel, you get more than just a job. You become part of an international organization where innovation, entrepreneurship, and development are central. You work together with colleagues all over the world and get the space to contribute ideas that truly make an impact.

Logistics forms our daily lives - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond just logistics; it enables both ordinary and extraordinary moments in the lives of people all over the world.

As a world leader with a rich history and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment in which your career can truly make a difference. Whether we are helping to deliver life-saving medicines, developing sustainable transport solutions, or supporting our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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