Join our dynamic Planning & Development team as we redefine Storage, Distribution, and Freight solutions to meet evolving customer needs.
Your Role
We're on the lookout for a dynamic individual to join our innovative Planning & Development team, a core unit responsible for developing Storage, Distribution, and Freight solutions tailored to evolving customer needs. In this exciting role, you will:
1. Tackle new logistics challenges: Respond to changing customer requirements and provide creative, enhanced solutions.
2. Lead customer interactions: Drive engagement to understand and adapt to change requirements, ensuring seamless status updates and tracker maintenance.
3. Oversee project lifecycles: Identify and manage current, future, and in-progress projects with precision and insight.
4. Collaborate on strategic solutions: Partner with the Contingent Operations Planning Manager, operations, and Finance representatives to manage solutions and costing processes with an analytical mindset.
Embrace this opportunity to make a significant impact in the world of logistics and customer solutions!
Your Responsibilities
Head office is based in Bicester for this role; however, we operate a hybrid working approach and reasonable location is not a concern.
* First line engagement with customers to determine current and anticipate future requirements – Working with Key Account managers and customers.
* Responsible for identifying solutions to current and future planning issues within the storage network.
* Responsible for the delivery of robust solutions to meet customer requirements.
* Carry out system data analysis whilst focusing on enhanced delivery solutions.
* Liaison with Operations and Customer representatives with regards to Change Management.
* Develop and manage direct relations between key stakeholders.
Your Skills and Experiences
* This role would suit an individual with good knowledge of the logistics process (A veteran with military logistics knowledge may find this advantageous).
* Analytical skills, capable of understanding customer requirements.
* Experience of working within and managing matrix teams to achieve objectives.
* Solution design and resource calculation ability.
* Excellent relationship building skills, capable of using various tools to communicate at all levels.
Please be aware that by applying for this role, you are agreeing to participate in the employment screening process. This process will include criminal record checking and identity validation. This means that KN will ask successful applicants to provide certain information and documentation to enable these checks to be conducted. Any appointment will then be strictly conditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of these checks.
Good Reasons to Join
If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and enjoy our Route 2 Rewards scheme which offers everything from discounts, benefit information, recognition and its own wellbeing centre. We care for our colleagues (and their immediate family) with our employee assistance programme providing access to 24/7 GP, legal and financial advice along with mental health counselling. All of this to help you live a happier and healthier life.
As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.
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