Rhenus

Global freight, warehousing, logistics provider

Country Manager Denmark

Business & StrategyUpdated on Nov 14

Full-timeHorsens, DenmarkNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Several years of experience at Managing Director, Country Manager, or Business Unit Head level with full P&L responsibility.
Successful leadership of turnaround, restructuring, or performance-recovery situations under ongoing business conditions.
Deep operational exposure to warehousing, logistics, or similarly operations-intensive environments.
Strong commercial judgment in contract logic, pricing, cost models, negotiations, and risk management.
Ability to make clear decisions under uncertainty and stand behind outcomes and consequences.
Confidence communicating in English at executive level and operating in an international board environment.

Responsibilities

Lead a prioritised turnaround to restore profitability, operational stability, and execution discipline.
Identify operational and commercial weaknesses, analyse root causes, and translate insights into decisive action.
Reshape the customer and contract portfolio to prioritise value contribution, economic discipline, and risk control over volume or legacy.
Lead the organisation as a leader of leaders, setting clear expectations, measurable targets, and accountability across the leadership team.
Define and consistently apply governance, decision-making, and escalation frameworks, and role-model them.
Represent the Danish business towards customers, the Group Board, and stakeholders.

What You Can Expect:

You bring several years of experience at Managing Director, Country Manager or Business Unit Head level with full P&L responsibility, including proven leadership experience in warehousing and contract logistics operations.
The role centres on leading a clearly prioritised turnaround to restore profitability, operational stability and execution discipline.
You independently identify operational and commercial weaknesses, analyse root causes and translate insights into decisive action.
The customer and contract portfolio is actively reshaped to prioritise value contribution, economic discipline and risk control over volume or legacy.
You lead the organisation as a leader of leaders, setting clear expectations, measurable targets and strict accountability across the leadership team.
Governance, decision‑making and escalation frameworks are clearly defined, consistently applied and personally role‑modelled.
You represent the Danish business with clarity and credibility towards the customers, the Group Board and stakeholders.

What You Bring:

You bring several years of experience at Managing Director, Country Manager or Business Unit Head level with full P&L responsibility.
You have successfully led turnaround, restructuring or performance‑recovery situations under ongoing business conditions.
Your background includes deep operational exposure to warehousing, logistics or similarly operations‑intensive environments.
You demonstrate strong commercial judgment in contract logic, pricing, cost models, negotiations and risk management.
You take clear decisions under uncertainty and stand visibly behind outcomes and consequences.
Your leadership style is entrepreneurial, demanding and impact‑driven, focused on results rather than consensus.
You communicate confidently in English at executive level, operating comfortably in an international board environment.

About the Company

Rhenus

Global freight, warehousing, logistics provider

Rhenus coordinates road, air, and ocean freight, contract logistics, warehousing, and port and inland waterway services from hundreds of locations worldwide to move goods for customers across many industries. By combining multimodal transport with warehousing and value-added services, it offers end-to-end supply chain solutions that include inventory management and distribution. Its global footprint and broad service mix, along with being part of the Rethmann group, lets it deliver integrated logistics with industry-specific expertise. Its goal is to help customers move and manage goods efficiently and reliably worldwide, optimizing supply chains and connecting producers with markets.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Holzwickede, Germany
Founded: 1912

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