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Are you an experienced logistics professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for operational excellence? At DP World, we are looking for an Area Manager to oversee logistics operations in Debrecen and ensure safe, efficient and high-quality service delivery for our customer.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading day-to-day operations across your area, coordinating teams, monitoring performance and continuously improving processes.

What will you do?

• Lead and coordinate daily logistics operations within your assigned area, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted material flow.
• Manage and support operational teams, including assigning tasks, monitoring performance and ensuring work is carried out according to defined procedures.
• Monitor staffing needs, including workforce planning, holidays and replacement coverage.
• Ensure operational processes are followed, controlled and continuously improved, identifying opportunities for optimisation and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee inventory movements and ensure accurate and efficient logistics processes.
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety and environmental standards, including DP World and customer requirements.
• Support and participate in internal and external audits, quality inspections and customer workshops.
• Maintain strong communication across teams and departments, ensuring that operational information, priorities and issues are effectively communicated.
• Act as a key point of contact for the customer, supporting regular communication, providing information and responding to customer needs.
• Coordinate internal training activities and ensure employees are properly informed about relevant procedures and requirements.
• Monitor operational documentation and performance reporting, providing the necessary data and reports to management and the customer.
• Promote and maintain 5S standards across the assigned area, ensuring an organised, clean and efficient workplace.
• Work closely with other departments and planning teams to implement corrective actions and achieve operational targets. 

What are we looking for?

• Logistics experience, ideally gained in a manufacturing, automotive or similar operational environment.
• Previous leadership/people management experience in a comparable operational role.
• At least a vocational qualification.
• Category B driving licence.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Good English or German language skills would be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of operational processes and a hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to coordinate different stakeholders effectively.
• A proactive mindset and willingness to challenge existing processes and suggest improvements.
• Strong sense of responsibility, reliability and commitment.
• Customer-oriented approach and the ability to understand and respond to customer expectations.

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 103,000 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. The DP World family comprises of Syncreon, Imperial and P&O.  

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, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW
TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE

DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We strongly believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves.