About The Role

Welcome to ZEISS – a company that combines innovation and responsibility!
Our corporate functions are diverse and make a decisive contribution to the strategic orientation and sustainable success of ZEISS.

Your Role

Lead Logistics Provider Management: Build strategic partnerships with logistics service providers and drive provider performance across transportation and logistics networks.
Drive Provider Performance and Governance: Lead provider performance programs, governance structures, business reviews, escalation management, and continuous improvement initiatives with measurable business impact.
Lead Tender and Sourcing Activities: Independently manage transportation and warehousing tenders, develop evaluation methodologies, assess supplier capabilities, and drive provider selection decisions from strategy through implementation.
Shape Commercial and Contractual Frameworks: Manage commercial evaluations, contract negotiations, service level agreements, and sourcing strategies while balancing business requirements, risks, and long-term value creation.
Drive Data-Based Decisions: Analyze logistics performance using SAP, Excel, Power BI, KPIs, and logistics reporting tools. Develop recommendations, business cases, performance insights, and strategic decision proposals.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify performance trends, root causes, and optimization opportunities across logistics processes and provider networks. Lead standardization and improvement initiatives with sustainable results.
Manage Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Engage and align stakeholders across Procurement, Business Units, Shared Service Centers, Logistics Operations, IT, and Logistics Service Providers to achieve common objectives.
Shape Logistics Strategies: Act as a subject matter expert in logistics provider management and contribute to strategic logistics decisions beyond your immediate area of responsibility.

Your Profile

Subject Matter Expert in Logistics Provider Management: You are recognized as a subject matter expert in logistics provider management and have a proven ability to drive improvements, influence decisions, and shape logistics strategies beyond your immediate area of responsibility.
A Natural Prospector: You proactively build relationships, challenge the status quo, and create opportunities where none existed before. You are comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and driving initiatives across organizational boundaries.
Deep Logistics Service Provider Expertise: You have extensive experience working with freight forwarders, transportation providers, contract logistics providers, parcel carriers, and warehousing partners. You understand market dynamics, provider capabilities, and industry trends.
Strategic Provider Management Experience: You have a proven track record in provider performance management, governance, supplier development, and business review processes.
Proven Tender and Sourcing Leadership: You have successfully led complex transportation and warehousing tenders and can independently guide sourcing processes from concept through implementation.
Strong Commercial and Contractual Acumen: You understand logistics cost structures, commercial models, contracts, service level agreements, and business risks, and can identify value creation opportunities.
Experienced Negotiator: You have successfully managed complex negotiations with suppliers and internal stakeholders while balancing commercial, operational, and strategic objectives.
Advanced Analytical Capabilities: You are highly proficient in SAP, Excel, Power BI, and logistics reporting environments and can transform data into actionable recommendations and strategic decisions.
End-to-End Logistics Understanding: You possess deep knowledge of transportation and supply chain processes and understand interactions between business units, logistics providers, procurement, and operational stakeholders within international supply chains.
Influential Stakeholder Management Skills: You effectively engage cross-functional and international stakeholders, manage escalations professionally, and build long-term partnerships based on trust and results.
International Mindset: You operate confidently in an international environment, facilitate workshops, lead negotiations, and communicate effectively with management and external partners.
Language Skills: Fluent in English (German is an advantage).