Logistics Projects Coordinator

Purpose of Job:

The purpose of this role is to drive the development and implementation of key transformation projects for EU Logistics as a part of the overall transformation program.

The role focuses on projects related to sustainability and loadfill.

Typical projects range from developing the European decarbonization roadmap, decreasing the KMs travelled and introducing alternative fuels via collaborative work with local operations, regional teams, procurement and SC consultants, to the development of transformation business cases, including estimation of CAPEX, savings, risks and implementation roadmap.

This position requires experience in project management, experience in logistics and/or sustainability is considered an advantage.

The role will interface heavily with multiple stakeholders across UL supply chain organization: logistics, planning, warehousing, procurement and make teams.

The role reports to EU Logistics Project Assistant Manager and will have a high level of visibility across multiple supply chain leadership teams.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage the existing logistics transformation initiatives.

• Effectively engage with multiple stakeholders across supply chain to ensure smooth development / implementation of the sustainability / loadability projects.

• Demonstrate strong leadership, facilitator and influencing skills to support implementation of change management activities & acquire buy-in from the stakeholders as a part of project development / implementation.

• Manage communications internal and external to the project.

• Ability to drive a team towards decisions in an environment with high levels of ambiguity, complexity, and risk.

• Ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence, negotiation and partnering for changes requiring buy-in from all partners.

• Ability to interact with all levels in the organization.

Our requirements

• Bachelor or Masters degree in logistics / engineering / supply chain management is preferred

• Very good command in spoken and written English

• Very good interpersonal and communication skills

• Operational computer skills (MS Office)

• Previous project / program management experience is required, experience in change management and multi-stakeholder management is considered an advantage

• Good understanding of supply chain management and previous experience in logistics or sustainability is considered an advantage

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