New - Integrated Logistics Continuous Improvement Manager

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.

Your Role

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.

Your Responsibilities

• Problem Solving
• Identification of customer’s supply chain inefficiencies and driving business cases
• Monitoring optimization project status, escalations in case of slow / lack of progress, definition of priorities, alignment on focus areas and resources
• Addressing resistance to change.
• Eliminating barriers on the way to implement savings projects

• Savings target setting
• Structural supply chain mapping / understanding of customer’s business end-to-end
• Value stream mapping
• Loss analysis, identification of strategic savings areas (cost / cash)
• Business case development
• Alignment on savings targets with the customer and Business Manager (value and timelines)
• Ensuring sufficiency of resources, priorities in alignment with Business Manager
• Savings pipeline development
• Data gathering, cleaning, validation
• Idea generation sessions, brainstorming internal and external (e.g. workshops with the customer)
• Collaboration with CI peers, CI corporate function, KNIL network engineering and procurement, logistics experts, key customer’s stakeholders
• Anchoring the baseline in alignment with the customer (key stakeholder incl. customer’s finance)
• Savings evaluation and validation (size and timelines that would be required to deliver)
• Elaboration of various scenario of savings achievement, recommendation of best scenario to pursue
• Identification of portfolio of savings projects for multi-year horizon, splitting them into quick wins / complex for realization, bigger / smaller potential, simulation of feasible realization timelines
• Continuous development of a project pre-pipeline
• Savings status tracking
• Alignment on approach to savings calculation, tracking, reporting with customer / Business Manager
• Organizing savings tracker – underlying working files and visualization in Tableau dashboard (e.g. customizing IL CI standard templates, Corp CI Tracker)
• Setting up regular internal / external meetings to provide update on savings program status (e.g. QBR/MBR or dedicated CI meetings)
• Ensure ideas/pre pipeline will be transformed into projects
• Leading action log after savings review meeting, following up on execution of actions
• Savings delivery
• Management of savings realization (preparation and execution of testing, documenting go live, post go live hyper care and registration of actual achievements)
• Leading project calls ensuring the progress of savings realization
• Addressing risks, concerns, resistance to changes
• Monitoring delivering of portfolio of savings, taking measures in case of lack progress or off-track developments
• Responsibility of a gap analysis in case achieved savings vary significantly from expected savings
• Escalation of lack of progress to customer / Business manager
• GDP / GxP compliance
• Ensure adherence of performed activities to established GxP quality system, according to the WHO GDP guidelines (latest version), the EU GDP guidelines (latest version), and Quality agreement (latest version) in place with customer
• Supervise adherence to Good Documentation practices, follow-up, storage and archiving of GxP documentation. Focus on the accuracy and quality of the records
• Compliance with required customer quality standards, and Pharma & Healthcare relevant local/international legal regulatory requirements
• Adhere to, if applicable, KN Product standards such as KN Pharma Chain, KN Battery Chain, KN Engine Chain etc

• 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

As an employer, Kuehne+Nagel stands for equal opportunity and we are committed to diversity in our teams with regards to people with disabilities. We believe that you can make a valuable contribution to Kuehne+Nagel and look forward to receiving your application.