Logistics Site Manager/General Manager

It's more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.

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Ready to lead an operation where your decisions make a real impact? As General Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of a dynamic warehouse operation, leading teams, strengthening customer relationships, and driving performance. You’ll develop and inspire employees, optimize operations, and partner with senior leadership on strategic initiatives while maintaining a strong focus on profitability, productivity, service, and operational excellence.

How you create impact

• Lead overall warehouse operations and the management team, ensuring productivity, service, quality, safety, and operational objectives are consistently achieved.
• Develop and manage the facility operating budget, monitoring cost, revenue, profitability, resource allocation, and efficient storage utilization.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, including service-level expectations, issue resolution, contract negotiations, pricing, and ongoing account performance.
• Lead workforce and resource planning, ensuring appropriate staffing, effective communication, employee development, conflict resolution, and adherence to HR policies and procedures.
• Develop and maintain operational systems, processes, and standards that support efficient use of facilities, equipment, technology, inventory, sanitation, security, housekeeping, and maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including OSHA and applicable Retail and Pharma regulations, while supporting continuous improvement and overall facility performance.

What we would like you to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field required.
• 7+ years of management experience in a 3PL environment with P&L responsibility, preferably within the automotive or aerospace sectors.
• Strong operational and financial management skills, including workforce planning, staffing, budgeting, prioritization, and resource management.
• Proven leadership and relationship-management skills, with the ability to lead teams, build effective partnerships, and communicate professionally with employees, customers, and senior leadership.
• Highly organized, analytical, and methodical, with strong critical-thinking, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and warehouse/material-handling operations, with a professional, approachable business demeanor.

What's in it for you

Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI- On-Site

Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Individuals with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process may contact us by sending an email to kn.taaccommodations.com

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to support portions of the recruitment process, such as reviewing application materials or assisting with scheduling. These tools analyze information to help inform decision making; however, all hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.

This position relates to an available role and not a future talent pool.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.