Global WMS Matrix Project Manager - Senior Specialist

CEVA Logistics; Madrid; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CEVA Logistics is seeking a role to ensure stable governance and evolution of the WMS Matrix DLx Dispatcher during the NEXTGEN transition. The role protects business continuity by managing governance, risk, and cross‑program alignment across regions.

You will connect system initiatives with CDP and Contract Logistics programs, supporting scalable growth and informed decision‑making across geographies, with strong emphasis on adoption and value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in supply chain or IT field.
• Experience with WMS solutions and large-scale deployments.
• Knowledge of CEVA WMS or equivalent systems.

Responsibilities

• System governance and stability for WMS Matrix DLx Dispatcher.
• Lead global and regional super-user engagement for adoption and governance.
• Own release governance and portfolio prioritisation for Matrix.
• Govern the PER lifecycle from requirements to deployment for Matrix Core+ and Healthcare.
• PMO routines across geographies to secure sponsorship and governance.
• Change management and adoption through training and webinars.
• Support the complete business lifecycle from evaluation to optimization and value realisation.

Skills

WMS governance

Global engagement

IT systems

Lean tools

Supply chain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or IT

Tools

Blue Yonder WMS Dispatcher

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Important: Working location is Madrid and Warsaw!

YOUR ROLE

The purpose of this role is to ensure the stable and effective governance, evolution, and global adoption of Contract Logistics core operational system WMS Matrix (Warehouse Management System Matrix – DLx Dispatcher) during the transition to NEXTGEN.

The role safeguards business continuity and growth by managing system governance, risk, and cross‑program alignment, ensuring the platform is consistently deployed, enhanced and connected to wider Contract Logistics initiatives across regions.

The role integrates system governance, business value tracking and data alignment by connecting systems initiatives with Contract Logistics programs and CDP (Cloud Data Platform), supporting scalable growth and informed decision‑making across regions.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ?

• 1 System Governance & Stability
• - Provide end‑to‑end governance for WMS Matrix Contract Logistics operational system (Matrix DLx Dispatcher), ensuring controlled evolution, operational stability, mitigation of business risks, quantifying the business benefit.
• 2 WMS Global Super‑User Community Engagement
• - Lead structured engagement with global and regional super‑user communities to ensure alignment on system usage and capabilities (especially WMS Core+ and Healthcare), adoption of enhancements, governance rules and feedback loops.
• 3 Release Governance & Portfolio Prioritisation
• - Own the governance of Matrix release cycles by consolidating Product Enhancement Requests (PERs), assessing business value, risk, operational impact and strategic alignment. Facilitate the prioritisation process with Super-User communities, Operations, Regions, IT and other stakeholders, and prepare release proposals for management review, funding approval and roadmap endorsement. Ensure transparency of release content, enhancement portfolios, delivery roadmaps and expected business outcomes across geographies.
• 4 Product Enhancement & Demand Management - Govern the end‑to‑end Product Enhancement Request (PER) lifecycle for Matrix Core+ and Healthcare, ensuring business requirements are captured, refined, validated, documented and translated into actionable development scope. Coordinate stakeholders throughout analysis, estimation, testing, acceptance and deployment activities, ensuring traceability from business need through delivered functionality.
• 5 Project Management and implementation support – Control appropriate PMO routines in different geographies to secure sponsorship and organizational aspects, PM discipline for implementations, implementation support though demos and knowledge share.
• 6 Change management and adoption - Prepare organization to onboard the changes, support training materials, webinars and communication.
• 7 Business Lifecycle Support & Continuous Value Realisation - Support the complete business lifecycle of WMS Matrix across Contract Logistics, from solution evaluation and business case definition through implementation, adoption, optimisation and continuous improvement. Promote the identification of new use cases, operational efficiencies and innovation opportunities, ensuring Matrix remains aligned with evolving business requirements, customer expectations and Contract Logistics transformation objectives. Facilitate integration and alignment with related programs, data initiatives and operational excellence frameworks where required.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• - Bachelor degree, preferably in the area of (Supply Chain) Management and/or Information Technology
• - Good knowledge of supply chain solution and Contract logistics business model
• - Minimum 5 years operational experience, preferably Warehousing or Production environment
• - Minimum 3 years IT systems experience, preferably in configuration, deployment and/or support
• - Experience in working in an international business environment - Experience with Automation and Mechanisation
• - Experience working within large‑scale transformation or transition programs
• - Good knowledge of WMS systems and of CEVA WMS solutions (Express, Core+, Healthcare, OC, Premium)
• - Good skills in Microsoft suite of applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• - Good understanding of 6 sigma/Lean tools
• - Ability to translate operational needs into structured governance and delivery frameworks
• - Knowledge of Blue Yonder WMS Dispatcher
• - Governance of complex, multi‑country system or digital programs

As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation.

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