About this role
What You Can Expect:
As part of our central Direct Load and Carrier Management team, you will play a key role in the development of our European carrier management network, by executing harmonized carrier sourcing and driving digital initiatives and optimizing processes and workflows. Key responsibilities include:
• Support domestic and international branches with executing harmonized annual tenders for regular freight & linehauls, including intensive preparation and follow-up. • Monitor, analyse, and improve data quality to support accurate planning and reporting. • Expand European activities around Carrier Relationship Management and independently manage major carrier accounts. • Identify business needs and translate them into practical process or IT-driven solutions and foster rollout in the carrier community. • Support implementation of group wide state-of-the-art IT-solutions to digitize the business. • Define, track, and analyse product-related KPIs to support continuous improvement initiatives.
What You Bring:
• Education in freight forwarding and logistics services. • Several years of experience in operational roles, such as truck dispatching and freight purchasing ideally on a European level. • Experience in project coordination, carrier management, or software implementation is considered an advantage. • Analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail and data quality. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. • Comfortable working in an international and cross-functional environment.
• Fluent in German & English; and other foreign languages are an asset.
• Willingness to travel.
Location: Germany (preferred Rhein Ruhr area, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Duisburg etc.) – hybrid model