Our customer is an internationally operating logistics service provider offering comprehensive transport and logistics solutions across Europe and beyond.
One of the specialized services our client offers is project logistics, heavy haulage and oversized transport. To lead and further develop these activities across Germany, we are seeking an experienced and commercially minded leader.
Your Role:
As
Head of Special Transport & Heavy Lift – Germany, you will assume overall responsibility for our heavy and special transport activities across Germany, including P&L responsibility, operations, and people leadership. Based in one of the locations in northern Germany you will report directly to the COO at the Group headquarters.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate teams and operations across multiple locations, ensuring close cooperation and regular presence at all sites
- Drive overall service quality, operational reliability, compliance, safety and customer satisfaction
- Optimize organizational structures, workflows, capacity utilization and inter-location cooperation
- Maintain and develop relationships with key accounts as senior point of contact for strategically important customers
- Collaborate closely with the COO and relevant functions at Group headquarters
- Contribute to strategic development and sustainable growth of the Special Transport & Heavy Lift business in Germany
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, safety and quality requirements
Your Profile:
- Several years of management experience, ideally with responsibility for multiple locations or geographically distributed teams
- Extensive professional experience in heavy haulage, special transport, oversized transport or project logistics
- Strong organizational and process-management skills
- Commercial mindset with good understanding of operational performance and profitability
- Confident and professional approach when dealing with key accounts and senior customer representatives
- Pragmatic, hands-on leadership style combined with strategic thinking capabilities
- Willingness to travel approximately 30% within Germany and Europe
- Fluent German and good English skills; additional languages advantageous but not essential
The Offer:
- Overall responsibility for a highly specialized business area within an established international logistics group with significant autonomy to shape and develop the organization
- Substantial scope to shape organizational structures, develop teams and processes, and drive the further integration and growth of the German Special Transport & Heavy Lift organization.
- Company car for business and private use
- Modern work environment with state-of-the-art IT equipment (laptop, smartphone)
- Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes in a family-owned international company
- Professional development opportunities including leadership training and industry-specific certifications
- Long-term perspective in a financially stable and growing company
- Compensation: Competitive fixed annual salary plus performance-related bonus depending on experience and qualifications
Ready to take on this challenge? We look forward to receiving your application and learning how you can contribute to the continued success and growth of the company quoting Ref.Nr.
111 725 prefarably through our
ISG-application portal or via eMail.
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