Site Development Manager to the Nordics, placement in South Sweden - DHL Supply Chain

At DHL, people mean the world to us. We aim to attract and retain the best talents. We provide challenge and opportunity for personal and professional development. We make sure that you know what a difference you make to our business and how you can be proud of building THE logistics company for the world.

Under the DHL Supply Chain umbrella, one of the business units of DHL, our mission is to provide customized logistics and industry solutions in the areas of supply chain management, warehousing, distribution, value added services, and lead logistics provider services for our customers - helping them deliver better results every day.

We are looking for aSite Development Manager(SDM) based out of South Sweden that will manage and influence continuous improvement for a group of sites in Sweden South and Denmark, leading Site Development Plans (Continuous Improvement), Innovation and our standardization Agenda. Additionally, he/she will direct and participate in performance dialogues, Gemba walks and First Choice initiatives and drive actions together with site management. This position reports to the Implementation Lead & Site development in charge for Sweden South and Denmark.

Your main accountabilities:

• Drive the Operations Excellence agenda in the business.
• Act as a spoke- and sparring person for the site management teams and business unit (BU) director(s)
• Act as a linking, connecting pin for the BU management for strategic Ops Ex topics and related information channeling (vice versa)
• Manage Site Development Plans (for each individual site) for our sites as the agreed action plan between SDM and Site Management
• Deploy and manage strategic programs via the Site Development Plans
• Support the sites with the interpretation and action definition of the monthly Site Dashboard
• Together with the continuous improvement (CI) team and Logistic Engineers develop and incubate new improvement and innovation topics that help our operations and customers.
• Stimulate and activate improvement of performance on existing sites and safeguard productivity and efficiency in our renewals and in new customer bids.
• Make use of and shares best practices from the sites in or outside your area.
• Support OMS FC implementations in your area, acting as an "ambassador."
• Support sites in LPMC improvement action driving and follow-up.
• Lead innovation and standardization projects together with the sites
• Facilitates Site Development and Continuous Improvement / First Choice workshops.
• Stimulate (continuous) improvement culture within the field by using different communication ways and using the different communities and functions in the field.
• Challenge site management based on predefined action list and pipeline.
• Participate in customer meetings in special situations to promote the continuous improvement agenda and to promote the plan or progress.

Key Requirements:

• Experience of operational line management or continuous improvement in the supply chain business.
• Project management skills.
• Leadership capability, also the ability to manage / influence through dotted line teams.
• Experience in working with virtual teams and managing people in matrix organization.
• Minimum bachelor's degree in Logistics or comparable experience level in Operations Management
• Broad experience in a leadership role in Logistics Operational Management, Logistics site-management or Continuous Improvement in Logistics environment (or relevant, comparable experience)
• Experience with engineering or analysis tools, like Value Stream Mapping, work study methodology.
• Experience of Lean methodology and a Continuous improvement approach
• Influence skills, negotiation skills, project management skills
• Language: Swedish and English, both spoken and written
• Travel: 50-75%
• Team working skills.
• Self-driven.
• Analytical.
• Consultative.

We offer:

• Challenging projects in an international environment.

• Development and career opportunities in a dynamic, global company.

Base location : South of Sweden preferably Gothenburg, Jönköping or Skåne.

The role as Site Development Manager is a mobile role where you start from your place of employment to travel around the area and support the various sites.

Site Development Manager reports to Implementation Lead Nordics within Operations Excellence.

Individual salary setting is applied, please state the salary claim in your application.

Interested?

Please send your application and CV in English no later then11.2.2025trought our eRecruitment portal JobWatch.

For further information, please contact peter.wennergren@dhl.com (Implementation Lead, & Site Development Manager Nordics)