KNDS | Germany | 81xxx, 80xxx München | Permanent position | Full time | Published since: 09.06.2026 on stepstone.de
Head of Department Shipping (m/f/d)
KNDS Germany develops, manufactures and maintains a wide-spread product portfolio as a system house. These include combat tanks, highly protected wheel vehicles, artillery systems, military bridges, customer service and training solutions. As part of the KNDS Group, we stand for the start of the consolidation of the industry for military land systems in Europe. We offer highly interesting, complex and challenging activities in a collegial environment. Our employees appreciate this, whether in development, production or administration. We successfully combine innovative capability with tradition and many years of experience.
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Your duties include the professional and disciplinary leadership of employees in shipping, including personnel selection, personnel deployment and motivation of employees. Furthermore, you continuously optimize the logistical processes in commercial and technical shipping and derive appropriate storage measures from fault analyses. In addition, you support the further development of IT projects for the identification of key figures and data collection according to the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) in the goods management system. In addition, select appropriate external suppliers and prepare procurement procedures for transport projects. In addition, monitor the development of freight costs as well as existing freight forwarding framework contracts and conduct price negotiations with suppliers. You will also participate in project meetings and shopfloor boards of adjacent areas. You ensure compliance with safety, quality and safety standards, as well as the evaluation, monitoring and reporting of relevant key figures.
You have a qualification as a specialist in freight transport and logistics or a logistics-specific study with a focus on shipping and transport. In addition, you bring multi-year relevant professional and leadership experience. In addition, you have well-founded knowledge of the planning and handling of heavy and large-scale transport. Dealing with the main carriers of trucks, seafarers and aircraft is very familiar to you. You have experience in hazardous goods processing as well as in cargo securing. Knowledge of customs and foreign trade law completes your professional profile. Your structured, solution-oriented and responsible way of working distinguishes you. Your profile is rounded off by organisational skills, team skills and enforcement strength.
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Location
 | KNDS | |
| 80997 München | ||
| Germany |
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