DHL (Deutsche Post)-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Westerville, OH
5,001-10,000 employees
Couriers and Messengers

Responsible for business strategy, industry research, and product development. This requires a thorough understanding of the industry, market demands, competitive intelligence, services offerings, technology capabilities, and supporting business development tools. Knowledge of customer requirements, cross-sector leading practices, and the solution designs that have been previously developed for existing or pursued customers is very important. This position will be responsible for development and evolution of new service offerings; including appropriate industry research, business plan creation, go-to-market planning, operating model definition, identification of tools/capabilities, and implementation plans to aid in business pursuit and operation execution. Works closely with solution team members, customer development, operations, information technology, and marketing groups in order to validate that newly developed service offerings link to the business strategy and DHL has the execution ability. Expectations are that this position will stay current with business trends to provide appropriate solutions for new and existing business.

  • Leads sector/business unit planning activities and ensures that the strategy is refreshed annually with quarterly reviews and 3-5 year re-plans.
  • Works with the centralized strategy and marketing groups to assist with strategy development and leverage DHL tools and approach.
  • Synchronize business strategy with Global Sector and supports global projects.
  • Works with marketing to conduct industry research, competitive intelligence, branding, thought leadership, and customer event activities.
  • Leads thought leadership content development and related conference activities.
  • Researches, identifies, and maintains appropriate alliances or partnerships.
  • Gains an understanding of the solutions implemented at existing sites and being pursued by the business development group, within own sector and across sectors.
  • Researches market demands and new innovative service developments.
  • Develops and maintains the solution set capabilities with existing and new services developed.
  • Responsible for collecting lessons learned and productivity metrics from ongoing operations, customer post-mortem surveys to ensure that solution sets evolve with industry standards and to meet customer requirements.
  • Creates business plans for new service offerings, validates through marketplace research, confirms operating capabilities, identifies required information technology, build cost/pricing models, and develop sales plans.
  • Participates in the analysis and selection of new tools to assist and improve the capabilities of the sector.
  • Perform voice-of-customer research by engaging with customers to uncover needs, challenges, and opportunities for DHL.
  • Work closely with sector leaders on a day-to-day basis providing strategic perspective and executing in the delivery of critical business plan initiatives.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Bachelors Degree, required
  • Masters Degree in logistics, operations management, industrial engineering, preferred
  • Minimum 5 years experience in supply chain and specified industry
  • Minimum 3 years experience in at least one of the following: strategic planning/execution, product development, or innovation
  • competitive wages
  • excellent affordable insurance benefits (including health, dental, vision and life)
  • 401K plan
  • paid vacation
  • paid holidays
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