
I.T Solutions Manager
Key Skills
Job Description
Global IT Solutions Manager, Business Systems, Warehouse Management Solutions (Global Accounts) – Tilberg, Netherlands (Hybrid)
Are you an experienced IT leader with a passion for designing complex technology solutions and driving operational excellence? We're looking for a Manager (Global IT Solutions), Business Systems, Warehouse Management Solutions (Global Accounts) to lead solution design, application strategy, and specialist teams supporting some of DP World's largest global logistics customers. This is a unique opportunity to shape innovative warehouse management solutions that serve complex international supply chain operations.
The Opportunity
As Manager (Global IT Solutions), you will lead the design, development, and delivery of warehouse management system (WMS) solutions supporting global contract logistics operations. You will manage solution analysts and team leads, oversee strategic technology roadmaps, and work collaboratively with customers, operational leaders, engineering teams, and IT partners to deliver innovative and scalable business solutions.
This role plays a critical part in ensuring DP World's technology platforms remain a key competitive differentiator by supporting complex customer requirements that extend beyond standard off-the-shelf warehouse management solutions.
How you will contribute:
- Lead the strategic and tactical IT solutions roadmap for global customer accounts within Contract Logistics.
- Drive solution design across warehouse management systems, business processes, and integrated technologies.
- Ensure technology solutions align with business goals, customer requirements, and organisational growth strategies.
- Influence solution outcomes with customers, engineering teams, business leaders, and technology partners.
- Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and develop a global team of Solution Team Leads and Analysts supporting business-critical applications.
- Manage resource planning, recruitment, performance management, succession planning, and professional development activities.
- Build strong technical and business process capability across the solutions organisation.
- Operational Excellence & Innovation
- Act as a subject matter expert across key warehouse management and supply chain process areas.
- Ensure adherence to software development lifecycle (SDLC), change control, workflow, and service management best practices.
- Collaborate with PMO, Operations, Integration, Security, Engineering, and Customer stakeholders to deliver successful technology outcomes.
Support innovation initiatives, operational improvements, new product launches, and large-scale customer programmes.
What you will bring:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Significant experience delivering enterprise IT solutions within logistics, supply chain, warehouse management (WMS) or transportation management (TMS) environments.
- Experience leading technical teams across multiple locations and geographies.
- Strong background in software development lifecycles, relational databases, web technologies, systems integration, and solution architecture.
- Experience supporting complex, high-volume international supply chain operations.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and customer-focused mindset.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.
- Proven ability to influence and drive successful outcomes across cross-functional teams.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and results-driven.
- Fluent English communication skills; additional languages are advantageous.
Willingness to travel internationally as required (approximately 5-10%).
At DP World, we are transforming global trade through technology, innovation, and operational excellence. You'll join a collaborative international environment where your expertise will directly influence the design and delivery of solutions used across multiple countries, customers, and operations. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact while developing your career within one of the world's leading logistics and supply chain organisations.
WE MAKE TRADE FLOW. TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.
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Core Responsibilities
Lead the strategic and tactical IT solutions roadmap for global contract logistics accounts while managing specialist teams. Drive solution design across warehouse management systems and ensure technology aligns with business goals and customer requirements.
Requirements
Requires a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with significant experience in logistics and warehouse management systems. Candidates must demonstrate strong leadership skills, technical expertise in software development lifecycles, and the ability to manage complex international operations.
About DP World
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Company size: 10,001+ employees
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 119,000 employees from 164 nationalities, spanning 83 countries on six continents and 560+ business units, 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. 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, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door. WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE