Network Optimisation Manager

• Company car or car allowance.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
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Forget everything you think you know about logistics. At DHL Supply Chain LLP, we're shaping the future of freight, designing smarter transport networks, unlocking efficiencies, and solving complex supply chain challenges for some of the world's leading brands. If you're excited by data, strategy, and making a real impact on how goods move around the world, you'll feel right at home here.

We're now looking for an Network Optimisation Manager to help shape the future of logistics. In this exciting and highly influential role, you'll design smarter, more efficient transport and supply chain networks, lead strategic improvement projects, and work with customers and stakeholders across Europe to deliver innovative solutions that reduce cost, improve service, and drive operational excellence.

• Designing and optimising complex inbound transport networks, ensuring materials are collected and delivered to production sites in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible.
• Analysing large volumes of supply chain data to review network performance, identify opportunities, and support strategic network redesign initiatives.
• Managing and developing transport solutions across a European network comprising approximately 1,500 deliveries per week, 1,000 suppliers, and multiple manufacturing locations.
• Using Coupa and other planning tools to model, validate, and implement transport and network optimisation solutions.
• Leading multimodal transport design projects, evaluating the most effective mix of transport modes to improve service and reduce cost.
• Collaborating with customers, operations, procurement, and planning teams to deliver innovative supply chain and transport solutions.
• Supporting the implementation of new planning technologies and tools, including network optimisation and transport planning platforms.

Grade: RCS J
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
Location: Solihull - B92 9EP - Hybrid

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• Have experience in transport solutions design, supply chain engineering, or network optimisation.
• Have experience leading and developing high-performing teams, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive successful project delivery across complex logistics networks.
• Are highly analytical and enjoy using data, systems, and technology to solve complex supply chain challenges.
• Have hands-on experience with transport modelling or planning systems, ideally Coupa, or similar.
• Understand transport chain management and can design end-to-end logistics solutions that balance cost, service, and operational requirements.
• Have experience of network redesign projects and enjoy challenging the status quo to deliver operational improvements.
• Bring knowledge of multimodal transport and understand how different transport modes can be leveraged within an integrated supply chain.
• Thrive in fast-paced, international logistics environments where collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are key to success.