Site Manager

DP WorldWaalwijk, North BrabantOn-siteFull-timeMid level, 2–5 yearsListed 1 day ago

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About this role

About the role

As a Site Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operations of a Contract Logistics site, ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality service delivery while supporting business growth and customer success. Working closely with customers, operational teams, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will create an environment where people can perform at their best and where continuous improvement is encouraged.

This role is critical in delivering operational excellence, building strong customer partnerships, and ensuring business objectives are achieved. You will play a key role in leading teams, driving performance, supporting employee development, and creating positive outcomes for customers, colleagues, and the wider business.

How you will contribute

- Lead site operations to deliver safe, efficient, and customer-focused logistics services.
- Build trusted relationships with customers, acting as a key contact for operational matters, escalations, and future planning discussions.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational performance, service quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
- Partner with finance and operational teams to manage budgets, monitor performance, and identify opportunities for efficiency and sustainable growth.
- Support workforce planning, employee engagement, talent development, and succession planning initiatives.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive workplace culture where clear communication, accountability, and teamwork are valued.
- Identify and support opportunities for business expansion, customer growth, and new operational initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, security, customs, environmental, and operational standards.
- Coordinate with regional and cross-functional teams to align operational priorities and successfully manage change.
- Oversee facility-related activities and contribute to the successful implementation of new customer solutions and business launches.

What you will bring

- Experience leading logistics, supply chain, operations, or related business functions, with responsibility for performance, people, and customer outcomes.
- Ability to engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, building strong relationships through clear and effective communication.
- Experience driving operational improvements, solving complex challenges, and making informed decisions in a dynamic environment.
- Commitment to developing teams, creating an inclusive workplace, and helping others succeed.
- A proactive, adaptable, and customer-focused mindset with a strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

To Change What's Possible For Everyone

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