National Logistics Distribution IT Specialist

It's more than a job

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. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade. 

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Can you own & optimize the full Oracle Transportation Management Lifecycle?

Come to Kuehne+Nagel and be the central OTM (Oracle Transportation Management) functional expert, leading end-to-end troubleshooting and optimization across planning, execution, financials, billing, and invoicing. Diagnose complex system issues, uncover root causes, partner with operational teams, and ensure data integrity across the OTM platform. 

How you create impact

• Provide end-to-end functional and technical support across Oracle Transportation Management, including order management, planning and optimization, shipment execution, event management, financials, billing, invoicing, rates, and contracts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Oracle Transportation Management issues, including planning failures, order fallouts, missing scans, shipment builds, tendering, carrier assignments, and workflow triggers.
• Manage incoming Oracle Transportation Management support tickets, identifying root causes, resolving issues efficiently, and translating technical challenges into actionable solutions for Operations.
• Partner with Operations, Pricing, Finance, technical teams, clients, and vendors to resolve shipment, system, billing, and invoicing issues while ensuring data integrity.
• Train and support Oracle Transportation Management users through targeted training, user guides, SOPs, and troubleshooting documentation that strengthen system knowledge and adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement across Oracle Transportation Management processes, identifying recurring issues and using operational feedback and data insights to improve system performance, efficiency, and service delivery.

What we would like you to bring

• Bachleor Degree in IT or related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) experience, supporting transportation operations in a functional, technical-functional, or application support capacity.
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting Oracle Transportation Management, including order management, planning/optimization, shipment execution, tendering, carrier assignment, event management, or workflow issues.
• 2+ years of experience supporting transportation financial processes, such as freight rates, rate maintenance, billing, invoicing, settlement, or transportation cost validation.
• Demonstrated experience managing system support tickets and root-cause analysis, including diagnosing issues, documenting resolutions, and coordinating with technical and operational teams.
• 2+ years working directly with transportation, logistics, freight forwarding, or supply chain operations, with demonstrated understanding of transportation workflows from order creation through shipment execution and financial settlement.
• Demonstrated experience training end users and developing or maintaining SOPs, user guides, or troubleshooting documentation for Oracle Transportation Management or a comparable TMS.

What's in it for you

Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage 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. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI- HYBRID

Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.  Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Individuals with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process may contact us by sending an email to kn.taaccommodations.com

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to support portions of the recruitment process, such as reviewing application materials or assisting with scheduling. These tools analyze information to help inform decision making; however, all hiring decisions are made by human reviewers**.**    

This position relates to an available role and not a future talent pool.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.