- Location
- Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · published
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workable
Description
The Nippon Express Group (NX Group), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, traces its history back to 1872 and is one of the world's leading global logistics service providers. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of logistics services, including air, land and ocean freight forwarding, cargo handling, removal services and warehousing operations. With more than 77,000 employees across 55 countries and a network of over 2,900 locations worldwide, we combine extensive global reach with strong local expertise – always finding a way to deliver tailored logistics solutions for our customers.
Role Overview
We are looking for a motivated and structured Project Manager, Corporate Projects (m/f/d) to support the planning, coordination, and successful delivery of country-specific, multi-country and regional corporate projects across the NX Group. These include strategic initiatives such as organizational restructuring, business integration, and transformation projects. In this role, you will ensure effective project governance by maintaining project plans, risk and issue logs, status reports and action trackers. You will coordinate stakeholders across different countries and functions, monitor progress and proactively follow up on agreed actions and deadlines. Through structured project management, transparent reporting and proactive stakeholder coordination, you will help ensure that projects achieve their objectives on time, while enabling management to identify potential risks, challenges and delays at an early stage.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and monitor project plans, milestones, dependencies and deliverables in collaboration with project leads and workstream owners
- Track project risks, issues and mitigation measures, ensuring timely follow-up and escalation of critical matters
- Prepare and consolidate regular project status reports, providing transparent updates on progress, milestones, risks, issues and key priorities for project leads and management
- Coordinate cross-functional and international stakeholders, facilitate project meetings, prepare agendas and materials and ensure effective communication and alignment across project teams
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, meeting minutes, decision logs, action trackers and governance materials, ensuring consistency with established project management standards
- Support the implementation and continuous improvement of project governance frameworks, reporting standards and project management practices across corporate projects