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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.\n\nThe Manager of Transportation Operations is responsible for leading and overseeing daily transportation activities across multiple Contract Logistics clients. This role ensures operational excellence through effective transportation planning, carrier management, client communication, data integrity, and team leadership.\nThe successful candidate will serve as a primary operational contact for multiple client accounts, maintaining strong relationships through proactive communication, issue resolution, and service performance management. This position requires a highly organized individual who is comfortable managing large volumes of email correspondence, navigating transportation and warehouse management systems, and coordinating with internal teams, clients, carriers, and vendors.\nIn addition to operational responsibilities, this role is expected to actively support and model Kuehne + Nagel leadership culture. The incumbent will foster a positive, accountable, and collaborative work environment through coaching, employee development, continuous improvement, and leadership by example.\nHow you create impact\nAct as the primary operational contact for multiple Contract Logistics clients.\nManage high volumes of email correspondence and stakeholder communications.\nUtilize TMS and related systems to manage transportation execution, reporting, routing, visibility, and performance.\nMaintain data integrity and ensure timely completion of operational transactions.\nEngage in development and/or refinement of carrier and customer dashboards\nMonitor carrier performance and lead corrective actions when required.\nLead transportation issue resolution, service recovery activities, root cause investigations, and CAPA initiatives.\nPrepare and present monthly; KPI reporting, performance reviews, and financial performance with clients and carriers.\nSupport onboarding, user acceptance testing, continuous improvement, automation, and system enhancement initiatives.\nCollaborate and communicate effectively with warehouse operations, customer service, procurement, leadership, and carrier partners.\nWhat we would like you to bring\nStrong understanding of transportation operations, carrier management, customer service, and supply chain processes.\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills.\nAdvanced Microsoft 365 proficiency.\nStrong TMS/WMS experience.\nAbility to manage heavy email volume.\nStrong leadership and stakeholder management skills.\nMinimum 5 years of transportation, logistics, or supply chain leadership experience.\nMinimum 5 years of people leadership experience, members sitting in multi-sites preferred\nExperience supporting multiple clients and transportation operations required.\nCITT, CCLP, P.Log, or related designation considered an asset.\nWhat's in it for you\nAt 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. The target base salary range for this position is between $90,000 and $113,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and dental benefits, a retirement savings plan, and tuition reimbursement. 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. #LI-(Remote/Hybrid/On-Site)\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) toolsmay be used to support portions of the recruitment process, such as reviewing application materials or assistingwith scheduling. 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