Contract Logistics IT Project Manager

About the role

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Your work ensures that our customers' products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision.

Responsibilities

• Manage, schedule and control IS/IT project team members and related tasks associated with client implementations and system migrations.
• Follow formal project management methodologies, ensuring that projects are completed on-time, risk is identified/communicated/managed, project costs are managed within budget, and communications meet internal/client expectations.
• Manage IT team members indirectly based on individual roles and responsibilities, to include both external implementations and internal strategic or change based initiatives.
• Assume role of IT Sub-project stream lead under the direction of the overall Customer Onboarding Project Owner on larger initiatives.
• Manage external business partners in terms of delivery, cost, and compliance with SOWs.
• Drive the gathering of customer requirements and partner with Solutions Engineering and IT team members in development of Concept of Operations and solution design.
• Provide effective communications to project team and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate meetings with prospects/clients to validate system requirements and specifications relative to product configuration and system integration.
• Oversee the construction, testing, training, implementation and support of system requirements.
• Participate in on-site implementation and client interaction to ensure delivery of business requirements.
• Organize the test plan, training plan, deployment plan, contingency plan, and development of test data and cycles to ensure that all processes identified in the requirements gathering phase will be validated.
• Control of project scope, associated change management, communication and govern risk.
• Manage project based IT budget, including internal and external cost components.
• Provide point of contact for Customer Onboarding, engineering, and Operations relative to customer change management.

Requirements

• Degree in Logistics, Engineering, or Business Management preferred.
• 5+ years of project management experience leading WMS system implementation projects required, experience with JDA/BY or Manhattan an advantage.
• Experience working in a 3PL environment highly desirable.
• PMP certification or similar desired.
• Technical experience with WMS systems desired.
• Ability to travel 50% during project execution, depending on project phase.
• Proven ability to manage large system implementation teams including external resources.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Must be a current Kuehne+Nagel employee.

Skills

• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with WMS systems.
• Ability to manage large teams and external resources.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles.
• Target salary range: $140,000.00 - $145,000.00.

Pay

The target salary range for this position is between $140,000.00 and $145,000.00. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.

Schedule

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