Senior Logistics Industry Expert

#### **What you will do** As Senior Logistics Industry Expert at the Kuehne Climate Center (KCC), you will bring your deep understanding of the global logistics industry, its strategic and operational challenges, and emerging trends to shape KCC's research agenda and to provide deep industry expertise across its research and implementation activities. You will lead KCC’s “THINK” work help ensure that it is relevant and linked to the realities and needs of global logistics and supply chains. * **Lead and develop our applied research and thought leadership work**, including its strategic direction, research priorities, team capability needs, and quality of outputs, in alignment with KCC's strategy and purpose * **Drive the applied research agenda on sustainable logistics and supply chains**, identifying relevant industry challenges, emerging trends, and opportunities for climate action, and translating these into research priorities and thought leadership * **Serve as KCC's senior logistics industry expert**, providing strategic advice, industry insights, and commercial perspectives across our program lines, research, and impact delivery activities * **Provide organization-wide expert guidance and validation of research, modelling, and proposed solutions**, ensuring that supply chain assumptions reflect industry realities and that outcomes are relevant, commercially viable, and implementable * **Collaborate closely with the Impact Delivery Director and Scaling Team** to connect research with implementation, capacity building, and scaling activities; providing feasibility assessments, contributing industry expertise and guidance while operational responsibility for pilot and implementation projects remains with Impact Delivery * **Work with the Senior Strategy Director and the CEO** on KCC’s strategic project portfolio management, ensuring the mission-aligned selection of projects for climate action in logistics and logistics for climate action * **Support the development of innovative, sustainable logistics and supply chain solutions**, including providing expert assessments and advice to partner organizations on their logistics and supply chain operations * **Build and maintain strategic relationships and partnerships** with relevant logistics industry actors to support collaborative research, implementation, and knowledge exchange #### **You‘re good at** * **Understanding the role of logistics in addressing climate change**, both by reducing the environmental impact of logistics operations itself and by enabling sustainability transformations in other industries * **Analyzing logistics and supply chain systems**, including operational practices, business drivers, customer requirements, market conditions, and cross-industry interdependencies * **Thinking strategically, systemically, and creatively**, identifying innovative approaches and translating complex challenges into actionable opportunities * **Building and leading organizational functi