Project Logistics Manager Germany (m/w/d)

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Job Description

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Project Logistics Manager to join our excellent and passionate team, based in Heide. In joining us you will play an important part from the very start, building Northvolt's Heide Gigafactory. Northvolt will play a significant role in the transformation to a carbon free society.

The Project Logistics Manager's primary focus will be to lead, grow and develop a team (Developers, Specialists, Coordinators and interns) who design and implement logistics solutions for heavy process equipment during the construction phases of Northvolt's Gigafactory in Heide. Ensuring team engagement, unity and motivation are essential and strategic planning and resource management to effectively impact operational excellence comes naturally.

Secondly, you are an Industrial Project specialist. You understand the importance of planning before the execution kicks in and the sequence of events of a logistical process. The Project Logistics Manager will be responsible for procurement and execution of all land-side logistical activities from port of destination via warehousing to position of installation. QHSSE management is in your DNA and you walk the talk every day, leading by example to ensure the development of safe practices.

We:

In broad terms, Project Logistics is responsible to secure end to end logistical solutions for process equipment, from vendor to installation with the highest focus on QHSSE, Schedule & Budget.

You:

First and foremost - you are a hands-on leader. You are a natural when it comes to human interaction, managing a broad scope of activities across a very busy team, spread through multiple locations, geographies and time zones. You have a good feel for people and you know how to, together with them, celebrate good times, as well as pull through dire straits.

Generally speaking, you have a high degree of experience within logistical operations, specifically in an industrial projects setting. You are absolutely excellent in multi-tasking and prioritizing. You understand the importance of structure and communication, especially across cultures and time zones, as means to ensure clarity and reach common goals within specific time frames.

The role will be based at Northvolt’s Heide facility with regular travels to Stockholm, and Northvolt's production facilities in Europe.

Together with the wider Northvolt Project Logistics Team you will:

• Lead the preparations, planning, co-ordination and execution of landside activities for cargo across multiple transport modes covering last mile, warehousing and last meter requirements,
• Ensure QHSSE development, implementation, measurement, analysis and optimisation and foster QHSSE culture,
• Ensure forecasting and plan solutions accordingly,
• Procure, contract and implement LSP agreements. Measure manage and optimize supplier performance
• Measure team and project performance, implementing actions to drive optimisation,
• Lead the co-ordination of schedule and budget planning and reporting between internal Northvolt departments,
• Take a lead role in developing and enhancing operational procedures,
• Participate in structured and unstructured communication to ensure clarity around next steps and ultimate goals,
• Continuously improve overall project logistics operations.

Skills & Requirements

You are or you have:

• A proven track record in leading and developing people,
• 10+ years of experience within logistics, including from industrial projects setting,
• Strong time management skills with the ability to maintain workflow while switching quickly between tasks, languages, cultures and time-zones,
• Detailed knowledge and experience of cargo handling operations,
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in German and English with the ability to prepare and deliver concise understandable information to co-workers, contractors and other stakeholders,
• Experience in drafting, running or responding to freight tenders, and negotiations,
• Problem-solving, entrepreneurial attitude thriving in a dynamic team environment where no day is like the other (we mean it!),
• Self-motivated and great at establishing new relations,
• IT literacy, predominantly within Microsoft Office,
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment (A MUST!),

The person we are looking for is cheerful, positive, curious, creative, innovative and eager to learn. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden and beyond and see the results of your work. Our organisation requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. Project Logistics Manager is a vital member of the Logistics Team and wider Supply Chain Organisation and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy.

Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full time employment, fixed salary.

Planned starting date is asap.

About the company

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.

To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.

Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.