Senior Manager - Operations Projects and Implementation

Role Overview:

• Provide proactive project management and day-to-day task management to successfully deploy and implement agreed solutions, ensuring compliance with business-mandated processes.

Projects Include:

• New business implementations
• Organic growth projects
• Site consolidations/migrations
• Operations remediation projects
• Warehouse Management System (WMS) migrations/implementations
• Automation implementations
• Other large logistics projects as required

Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the CLDM process for new business implementation
• Provide practical guidance and recommendations to project team members to improve project execution disciplines and deliverables
• Manage projects with strong project disciplines, including:
  • Scope and scope change management
  • Schedule management
  • Resource and project team management
  • Budget and procurement management
  • Risk management
  • Quality management
  • Stakeholder and communication management

Operations Improvement Projects:

• Conduct root cause analysis, solutioning, and scoping based on Operations experience
• Use data and evidence-based solutions to drive proactive process improvement
• Enhance Operations and commercial performance of targeted sites
• Leverage support business functions for necessary enhancements and outcomes
• Consider all elements, including people and structure, systems and digitization opportunities, process and material flow, layout, equipment, and automation opportunities

Training:

• Continuously update knowledge of business processes and management skills
• Improve and enhance business implementation through training in:
  • Project management disciplines
  • Hard and soft skills
  • Leadership
  • Financial and commercial management
  • Operations
  • Technology
• Align training with both personal development needs and business needs

• Manage all aspects of various complex logistics projects from initiation to closure, including planning, execution, testing, training, go-live, hand-over, and closure.
• Take over solutions from EA/SD for new and existing businesses.
• Lead project teams across functions and implement solutions seamlessly, including final proposals, UAT, stress tests, etc.
• Conduct internal and external solution workshops to ensure efficient and optimized operations.
• Review existing and new operations for opportunities to apply IT/software enhancements to optimize resource efficiency.
• Lead project teams in the transition of warehouse inventory and warehouse relocation activities.
• Manage workshop issue logs and implement customer-agreed final solutions/initiatives.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders regarding status reporting, including escalation of recommendations to the project sponsor or steering group on issues requiring intervention/action.
• Ensure project expenditure is within approved IA.
• Develop and execute detailed project plans and schedules to ensure all implementation phases are mapped, interdependencies identified, risks managed, and delivered on time and within budget.
• Assist operations post go-live for a defined duration.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the logistics, 3PL, and supply chain industry across various market segments (e.g., electronics, healthcare, consumer & retail, automotive, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills with good commercial and technical understanding in the context of a 3PL environment.
• Strong persuasive skills when presenting proposed solutions to customers (when necessary).
• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Supply Chain, Business Management, or relevant technical field.
• Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or other). Lean/Six Sigma methodologies (Green or Black Belt) are an advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Project.
• Full proficiency in spoken and written English; other Asian languages are beneficial.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude to overcome problems effectively and able to work under own initiative with minimal supervision.
• Team player who is self-driven with a high degree of professional integrity.

Additional Skills:

• Hands-on approach, comfortable navigating ambiguities and managing priorities.
• Ability to multi-task and work under time pressure.
• Strong project disciplines, including scope and scope change management, schedule management, resource and project team management, budget and procurement management, risk management, quality management, stakeholder and communication management.

At DB Schenker, you are part of a global logistics network that connects the world. A network that allows you to shape your career by encouraging you to contribute and truly make a difference. With more than 76,000 colleagues worldwide, we welcome diversity and thrive on individual backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Together as one team, we are here to move.

To be considered for this position you must have valid rights to work and live in Singapore