02/07/2025
Danish Crown Industry
DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej
Senior Specialist Global Warehousing
Are you ready to lead continuous improvement, innovation, and sustainability within the Global Warehousing agenda in a dynamic and international company? Do you thrive on working with complex problems and finding solutions in a global set up? If so, we invite you to join our team as Senior Specialist Global Warehousing at our headquarters in Randers.
As a Senior Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring Danish Crown’s warehousing operations across ambient, dry, chilled, and frozen storage environments. Our purpose is to deliver operational excellence, drive digitalization, automation, and sustainability. Further to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure warehousing operations are resilient, scalable, and aligned with business and customer needs.
You will be part of the Global Logistics department, collaborating with a team of 40 experienced professionals while engaging with additional international logistics colleagues. We are over 23,000 colleagues worldwide as we work together to create a more sustainable food production industry.
This position offers a broad and varied scope, allowing you to work at both a tactical and operational level. You will be responsible for analyzing, advising, and implementing process’ across Business Units and departments, ensuring that Danish Crown will reach the strategic goals and must win battles. Your expertise will be instrumental in optimizing the day-to-day work and to create synergies to streamline processes, identifying risks, and driving efficiency in our way of working.
Beyond logistics, you will have the opportunity to work closely with internal stakeholders in operations and supply chain. You will act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on continuously improvement, impact transformation and proactively benchmark our efforts, to keep logistics operations competitive. Additionally, you will contribute to cross-functional projects, collaborating with teams across different departments and regions to ensure a streamlined way to work and value creation.
Your external focus will be to intensify working with the logistics suppliers. Hence, to develop the cooperation, to follow up on performance and be responsible for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR’s).
Expect approximately 10 - 30 travel days per year.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage warehouse KPIs including inventory accuracy, order fulfillment rate, warehouse cost per unit, space utilization, energy efficiency, and health & safety metrics. Deliver against service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams and customers.
- Identify and implement cost-to-serve improvements while balancing cost, service, and sustainability. Further, to manage warehouse-related risks (e.g., capacity constraints, equipment failure, labor shortages) and develop robust contingency plans.
- Through 3PL support energy efficiency, reduction in waste, and implementation of environmentally friendly technologies (e.g., LED lighting, solar power, ammonia refrigeration in cold storage). To partner with suppliers and internal teams to meet corporate ESG targets for warehouse operations.
- Understand and drive through 3PL deployment of warehouse management systems (WMS), real-time inventory tracking, and automation (e.g., AS/RS, AMRs, pick-to-light systems).
- Additionally, to work with customer centric warehousing, end-to-end supply chain integration, supplier & 3 PL Management …
- One of your focal points will be, to assess the performance, progress and goals with clients and stakeholders, in the Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR’s).
Who are we looking for?
You hold a relevant educational background - such as a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Operations Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or equivalent. Further, you have a few years of documented experience working with Lean and digital supply chain systems.
You approach tasks in a structured and analytical manner, with attention to detail and business acumen. You have a filled tool box and the experience to engage in delivering high-quality work and be proactive in engaging with stakeholders across the organization.
You will be part of a forward-thinking organization that values innovation, sustainability, and excellence.
Additional Qualifications:
- 5+ years expertise in warehouse operations across ambient, dry, chilled and frozen environments including cost, service, quality and sustainability drivers
- Knowledge of WMS, automation and design principles
- Data driven decision making and Cost 2 Serve
- Proven ability to drive change and improvement
- Experienced in Risk management, safety, quality and compliance
- Proven experience in succeeding in Supplier Relationship Management
- Fluency in English, German is an advantage, both written and spoken
- A collaborative mindset and a positive, can-do attitude
Appetite For More?
If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to contact Senior Director Global Logistics, Poul Knudsen, at (+45) 29 22 89 96.
Please send your CV and cover letter at the latest on August 15th, 2025. We will conduct first round interviews in week 34, second round will be on August 25th and 26th. We aim for a start on October 1st, 2025 or earlier.
We are a food company owned by Danish farmers supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we’re more than 23,000 colleagues, all committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.
