Project Manager, Warehouse Management Systems & IT Implementations - Logistics

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.

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.

You’ll bring together cross-functional project teams, manage priorities and timelines, anticipate and resolve risks, oversee project budgets, and ensure a seamless experience for both clients and internal stakeholders.

• Lead cross-functional IT project teams supporting customer implementations, system migrations, strategic initiatives, and organizational change.
• Serve as the IT project or sub-project lead for customer onboarding initiatives, coordinating activities across IT, Operations, Engineering, and external partners.
• Drive requirements gathering and solution design, partnering with customers, Solutions Engineering, and IT teams to define system requirements, configurations, integrations, and Concepts of Operations.
• Manage end-to-end implementation activities, including system development, testing, training, deployment, contingency planning, on‑site implementation, and post‑launch support.
• Own project governance, proactively managing scope, change, risks, timelines, communications, stakeholder expectations, and internal/external project budgets.
• Manage vendors and client relationships, ensuring external partners meet delivery, cost, and SOW commitments while serving as a key point of contact for customer change management.

• Degree in Logistics, Engineering, or Business Management or equivalent work experience
• 5 years of project management experience leading WMS system implementation projects required, experience with JDA/Blue Yonder or Manhattan an advantage.
• Experience in a 3PL environment required
• PMP certification or similar desired
• Technical experience with Warehouse Management Systems desired
• Ability to travel 50% during project execution, depending on project phase.
• Proven ability to manage large system implementation teams including external resources.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills.

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

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…