Logistics IT Specialist

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. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary link between warehouse operations, IT support, pre-sales, KN Implementations and clients.
• Maintain consistent updates to the KN US PIA template which supports hardware price changes, hardware make/model revisions, recurring price adjustments, and new vendor onboarding.
• Primary link between KN operations, finance and vendors for procurement of new hardware needed to support warehouse operations.
• Maintain accurate listing of all KN approved vendors.
• Ticket creation, escalation & follow-up with KN IT.
• Confirm all hardware budgets with operations prior to initiation of project requests.
• Collaborate with KN vendors to obtain hardware quotes related to on-going operations (CI) initiatives and pre-sales PIA BOMs related to new implementations.
• Work with KN IT to obtain quotes on new, refreshed and expanded IT networking infrastructures.
• Utilize quotes from project initiatives to create investment applications for approval and PO creation.
• Place hardware orders with the vendors and monitor/communicate both lead times & deviations to operations and vendors.
• Manage the installation of hardware at sites, attending on site if necessary to verify correct installations.
• Primary link between the auditors, KN clients and operations to organize SOC1 audits and reports.
• Additional IT project management duties as allocated by manager.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in IT, IT infrastructure, hardware, technology operations, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience with IT hardware and/or infrastructure.
• Experience coordinating IT projects, technology implementations, or hardware deployments.
• Experience working with vendors, quotes, purchasing, and equipment installations.
• Strong experience collaborating across IT, operations, finance, and other business teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with SOC 1 audits is a plus.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with SOC 1 audits is a plus.

Skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with SOC 1 audits is a plus.

Benefits

• Great compensation and medical/dental benefits packages.
• Employee discounts.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Excellent training programs.
• A fun, and interesting global work environment.

Pay

Details TBD.

Schedule

Details TBD.