In this exciting opportunity, your role will be to fully focus on increasing the commercial sourcing and improving the operational performance of Kuehne+Nagel’s road logistics trucking companies and customs brokers.

Your Role

You increase the truck carrier portfolio and improve service performance and daily operation KPI's. Your long-term goal in this position is to structure daily operational tasks and to monitor vendor performance. You set priorities, shape processes, guide people, work with TMS systems and develop a sufficient carrier infrastructure, while building a professional and friendly image to the internal and external customers.

Your Responsibilities

• Maintain carrier contracts and introduce new carriers and customs brokers to the portfolio, including rate negotiations and onboarding according to our standards

• Ensure that our operations and transactions meet all customs regulations, standard operating procedures specific to each client

• Communicate and build relationships with internal and external customers, service providers, border agents and destination branches, liaising with other Kuehne+Nagel stations within the GCC network

• Ensure client deadlines as well as internal deadlines and procedures are adhered to, and liaise with suppliers and/or 3rd party to ensure timeous collection of cargo

• Manage all warehousing and trans-shipment operations and/or domestic deliveries

• Ensure that supplier invoices are reflecting agreed transport tariffs #LI-KP1

• Assist to maintain good service levels and revenue margins as per the contracted rates; writes offs, errors are to be kept to a minimum, preferably avoided completely

• Quick response to operational escalation including CAPA handling

Your Skills and Experiences

• At least 5 years of experience in road logistics

• Excellent understanding of the trucking industry in the GCC countries, especially the UAE

• Knowledge of customs brokerage in the GCC countries

• Leadership experience

• Strong negotiation and problem solving skills

• Ability to think and act quickly and independently

Good Reasons to Join

We offer an employee-friendly environment for you to develop and grow to become a skilled transportation logistics professional in a challenging and fast-developing company with a competitive salary and opportunities for further development within the Kuehne+Nagel Group. If like us, you put customers at the heart of everything you do, you can expect to be rewarded with a full package of benefits on top of a salary that grows with you as you grow in our busin

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