IT Solutions & Warehouse Management Systems Implementation Manager

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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Play a key role in transforming warehouse operations by implementing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and technology-driven processes across Kuehne+Nagel distribution centers. Partner with Operations, IS, and IT teams to turn customer requirements into effective business solutions that support both new implementations and existing operations.

How you create impact

• Lead and support CL IS team members across customer implementations, strategic initiatives, and change projects, providing mentorship, best practices, and effective project communication.
• Analyze customer and operational requirements and translate business needs into system requirements, technical specifications, integration mappings, and solution designs.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for solution development, partnering with Operations and Engineering to develop Concepts of Operations, functional requirements, and system configurations.
• Manage system integration and implementation activities, including client requirements meetings, application configuration, testing, training, deployment, on-site implementation, and ongoing support.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and productivity, defining ROI, aligning resources, and delivering operational change requests.
• Maintain solution and project standards through effective documentation, ensuring enhancements and configurations align with core system capabilities, product integrity, and approved project scope.

What we would like you to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain or Business Management or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years technical experience working with supply chain products including warehouse 
management systems, transportation management systems, order management systems and/or Enterprise 
Application Integration tools.  Blue Yonder (JDA) and / or Manhattan Warehouse Management Operating Systems experience required.
• 5 years of Operations’ experience in the field of warehousing/transportation services. • Anticipate travel at 40%, with increased travel during the realization phase of implementation. • Proven ability to define customer requirements and operational efficiencies. • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills