Contract Logistics Manager – Automation and Mechanization

Job description

More than a job

As part of Kuehne+Nagel’s Contract Logistics team, you will design, manage, and optimize solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Your work ensures customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered accurately, shaping global commerce and communities.

Lead identification, evaluation, design, and implementation of automation and mechanization solutions for Contract Logistics operations. Ensure technical feasibility, safety, scalability, and sustainable performance to improve productivity, capacity, quality, service, and total operating cost.

Responsibilities

1. Define the automation/mechanization strategy and roadmap, prioritizing technologies and capabilities aligned with business needs.
2. Evaluate opportunities with Process Management and Operations, ensuring each initiative begins with a clearly defined future process.
3. Design solution concepts, functional specifications, and technical criteria so technologies and suppliers can be compared.
4. Coordinate requests for information and quotation, RFPs, and supplier evaluations, ensuring requirements, standards, safety, and total cost are addressed.
5. Develop and validate business cases and benefits analyses with Process Management and Finance to support investment priorities and approvals.
6. Lead implementation of conveyors, sortation, AMRs, AGVs, ASRS, robotics, and related technologies, meeting scope, quality, schedule, and budget.
7. Coordinate equipment integration with SwiftLOG, WCS, interfaces, infrastructure, and IT to deliver stable, operable end-to-end solutions.
8. Plan and run FAT, SAT, testing, commissioning, training, go-live, and stabilization; ensure operational readiness and formal acceptance.
9. Govern performance and lifecycle of deployed solutions, monitoring availability, capacity, productivity, maintenance, incidents, and realized benefits.
10. Develop internal capabilities and partner relationships, promoting standardization, reusable use cases, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications and experience include a degree in mechatronics, mechanical, electrical, or related engineering and relevant automation/mechanization experience. Collaborate with regional and global teams to produce business impact.

About Kuehne+Nagel

Logistics shapes everyday life, from consumer goods to healthcare. Kuehne+Nagel offers a stable environment where work can make a difference, including delivering medicines, sustainable transport solutions, and community support. Recruitment agencies are asked not to send unsolicited profiles; submissions without a signed prior agreement are treated as Kuehne+Nagel’s property and generate no fee.