Contract Logistics Shift Leader

It's more than just a job.

As a Contract Logistics Shift Leader at Kuehne+Nagel, you lead frontline warehouse operations that keep our supply chains moving every day. By guiding your team with clarity, discipline, and a strong focus on safety, you ensure our warehouses and distribution centres operate efficiently and reliably. Your leadership supports the accurate handling and timely delivery of goods that people depend on — from everyday essentials to time-sensitive products. At Kuehne+Nagel, it's more than managing a shift; it's about making a real difference through the work you lead.

As a Contract Logistics Shift Leader, you are responsible for ensuring the smooth, safe, and efficient day-to-day operation of the warehouse. By leading your team on the floor, you directly impact productivity, service quality, and customer satisfaction while maintaining full compliance with health, safety, and company standards.

Your impact includes:

• Leading, planning, and organizing daily warehouse operations to meet operational and customer requirements.
• Managing shift manpower effectively, including attendance, absenteeism, sick leave, and workload allocation.
• Allocating resources on a day-to-day basis to ensure operational continuity and productivity.
• Driving performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) across productivity, quality, safety, and customer service.
• Conducting daily briefings to align the team on priorities, safety requirements, and operational updates.
• Ensuring all equipment and assets are handled and operated responsibly at all times.
• Maintaining strict compliance with Health & Safety, QSHE, and dangerous goods requirements.
• Proactively identifying and resolving operational issues to prevent service disruption.

You bring strong people leadership skills, hands-on warehouse experience, and a safety-first mindset to lead operational teams effectively.

We'd like you to bring:

• Proven experience in a warehouse or Contract Logistics operational role, ideally in a shift leadership or supervisory capacity.
• Strong people management skills, including experience leading diverse and outsourced workforces.
• Solid understanding of warehouse operations, productivity management, and KPI tracking.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to anticipate and resolve issues on the floor.
• Strong commitment to operational safety, compliance, and quality standards.
• Ability to communicate clearly, lead by example, and engage teams effectively.
• A structured and disciplined approach to planning, execution, and follow-up.

At Kuehne+Nagel, we want to be the best company to work for and with. As a Shift Leader, you play a critical role in shaping the daily experience of our people and delivering customer excellence.

What you can expect:

• A hands-on leadership role with real influence on operational performance.
• Opportunity to lead and develop frontline operational teams.
• Exposure to structured processes, global standards, and best practices.
• A safety-driven environment where people come first.
• Clear opportunities for career progression within Contract Logistics operations.
• A stable, performance-oriented organization that values accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Who We Are

Logistics shapes our daily lives – from the goods we consume to the healthcare we need. At Kuehne+Nagel, your day-to-day work goes beyond logistics; it supports the big and small moments in people's lives around the world.

As a global leader with a strong structure and a forward-looking vision, we offer a safe and stable environment where your career can make a real impact. Whether we're helping to deliver life-saving medicines, developing sustainable transport solutions, or supporting local charities, your career will contribute to far more than you can imagine.