Director Operations Transport & Logistics
Confidential client
Director Operations Transport & Logistics
You assume overall operational responsibility for road, rail, and sea freight in an internationally active logistics organization. A core element of your role is managing the operational network as well as providing visible leadership that influences performance, quality, and growth.
Your responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for road, rail, and sea freight operations
- Leadership of the operational organization
- Further development of the operational organization
- Leadership of executives
- Ensuring efficiency, stability, quality, and profitability along the operational value chain
- Responsibility for operational performance including budget and results accountability
- Establishment and development of a performance management system
- Present, active leadership in daily operations with high visibility
- Fulfillment of the role of a licensed managing director or willingness to obtain it
- Management of a complex operational network with direct impact on performance, quality, and growth
Your profile
- Leadership experience in freight forwarding or logistics
- Experience in land transport and/or rail environment (ideally)
- Experience in leading executives
- Experience with larger operational units
- P&L responsibility in complex logistics structures
- Hands-on mentality
- Clear entrepreneurial mindset
- Very good German language skills
- Excellent English skills
- Willingness to fulfill the role of a licensed managing director or to obtain it
Benefits
- Full-time position
- Work location Western Austria
- Stable, forward-looking company
- Flat hierarchies
- Key position
- Room for creativity
- Entrepreneurial influence
- Modern office building
- Technically up to date
- Applicability of the collective agreement (Kollektivvertrag) for employees in freight forwarding and logistics
About the company
The company posting the job is seeking to strengthen its team at the Western Austria location.
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Sophie Moser
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