Logistics Europe Transportation Lead & Asia/Africa Hub Engagement Lead
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Strategy
Product Design & Delivery
Resource Management
Talent Development
Stakeholder Management
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Title: Americas Transportation Product Lead
Service Lines/Domain/Foundation: GDT - Business Product Domain - Customer Operations - Logistics
Scope: Europa
Location: Bangalore
Job Summary
The Europe Transportation Product Lead is a key regional product leadership role within the Customer Operations Product Domain, accountable for translating the global transportation product strategy into regional outcomes across North America and Latin America.
This role will focus on the digital products and capabilities that enable Transportation operations in the Europe, ensuring that global standards are adopted while regional business needs, regulatory requirements, operational complexity, and value opportunities are properly represented. Working closely with the Global Transportation Product Lead, CO Excellence, GBS, regional business stakeholders, Technology teams, Deployment teams, and strategic partners, this leader will drive regional transformation, adoption, reliability, and continuous improvement. Key objectives are to:
- Shape and execute the Europe transportation product roadmap in alignment with global strategy and regional priorities.
- Ensure effective design, deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement of transportation products across Europe.
- Improve product quality, service reliability, user experience, and operational performance in the region.
- Drive adoption, non-touch execution, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled opportunities where they create measurable business value.
- Support regional budget, value delivery, and cost optimization decisions within the product portfolio.
- Lead and develop regional product teams and partner networks to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes.
This means you will need to combine strong Supply Chain and Transportation business context with solid product management discipline, regional stakeholder management, technology understanding, and change leadership. The role requires the ability to influence across functions and markets, connect global direction with regional execution, and deliver tangible outcomes through others at WL2B level.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
This multifaceted role is responsible for unlocking regional business value through transportation digital products, ensuring that global capabilities are successfully landed, adopted, and continuously improved in the Europe. Key activities include:
Strategy
- Translate the global transportation product strategy into a Europe roadmap, balancing global standards with market-specific priorities across the countries.
- Partner with business, CO Excellence, GBS, and Technology stakeholders to identify regional value opportunities, capability gaps, and prioritization trade-offs.
- Contribute to product investment cases and roadmap decisions with clear articulation of business value, feasibility, risk, and adoption impact.
- Identify practical automation, analytics, AI, and Agentic AI opportunities that can improve transportation execution, productivity, service, and user experience in the region.
Product Design & Delivery
- Lead regional product design, deployment, and improvement activities for transportation solutions, ensuring business requirements are clear, value-led, and aligned with global product principles.
- Work with agile delivery teams, deployment teams, vendors, and market representatives to deliver fit for purpose releases with strong quality, adoption, and change readiness.
- Facilitate testing, feedback loops, and hypercare activities to ensure products meet user needs and operational expectations across Europe.
- Manage the regional product lifecycle, including enhancements, adoption plans, issue resolution, service improvements, and decommissioning inputs where relevant.
- Monitor product performance, incident trends, adoption metrics, and business outcomes to drive continuous improvement and product quality.
- Promote experimentation and learning practices where they are practical, controlled, and aligned with regional business value.
Resource Management
- Support regional portfolio planning, capacity discussions, and budget prioritization in alignment with product priorities and business value.
- Track delivery effort, support demand, and investment needs to help optimize resource utilization and return on investment.
- Identify regional capability, skill, or capacity gaps and work with product leadership and partners to address them.
Talent Development
- Coach and develop regional product team members and extended partners, fostering accountability, collaboration, ownership, and a high-performance culture.
- Build product, transportation, data, and change capabilities across the regional team through structured learning, mentoring, and practical exposure.
- Contribute to talent planning and onboarding needs, escalating gaps and opportunities to product leadership where required.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and market stakeholders across Transportation, Logistics, Customer Operations, Supply Chain, IT, Finance, and external partners.
- Act as the regional product point of contact for transportation priorities, clearly communicating product vision, roadmap, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and progress.
- Represent Europe needs in global forums and ensure feedback from markets is converted into clear product inputs, improvement opportunities, and adoption actions.
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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