Global Logistics Manager

CDE Group; Cookstown; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CDE Group is seeking a Global Logistics Manager to lead our worldwide logistics function, ensuring compliant, cost-efficient movement of materials and projects across markets. You will shape strategy, manage despatch activities, and partner with sales and project teams to optimise performance.

The role offers strategic impact, career growth, and opportunities to advance our circular-economy objectives on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent with at least five years' experience in a Logistics Management role.
• Experience of project management and capacity planning methodology/software (ideally IFS).
• Excellent relationship management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks within inflexible time-frames.
• Willingness to travel outside UK & Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop our global logistics function, overseeing despatch activities and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Develop and execute the global logistics strategy including capacity planning and risk mitigation.
• Manage customs compliance across international markets and work with third-party providers.
• Collaborate with sales and project teams to provide expert logistics guidance and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Drive continuous improvement and scalable growth of the logistics operation.

Skills

Improvement

Financial

Technical

Compliance

Strategic

Managerial / Operational

Relationship

Sales

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

IFS (preferably)

Job description

Job Description

Location: C D E Group Ltd, H1, Kilcronagh Business Park

Join CDE, a global leader in wet processing solutions, and play a pivotal role in our mission: To create our best world, a ton at a time. We are at the forefront of transforming waste into valuable resources, laying the foundations for a circular economy and helping customers maximise their natural resources sustainably. With a 30-year history of success and over 2,000 projects across five continents, our impact is truly global.

As our Global Logistics Manager, you will be central to this mission. You will lead and develop our entire global logistics function, ensuring the effective, compliant, and cost-efficient movement of materials, equipment, and project shipments across international markets. This is a highly strategic role where you will work cross-functionally to build a robust, scalable, and customer-focused logistics operation that underpins our operational and strategic goals.

We are a multi-award-winning company, recognised as a Deloitte Best Managed Company for thirteen consecutive years. This is your chance to join an innovative, fast-paced team and make a tangible impact on a global scale.

About The Role

As the Global Logistics Manager, your day-to-day will be dynamic and strategic. You will lead the logistics team, providing oversight for all despatch activities and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. A key part of your role will be developing and executing the global logistics strategy, from capacity planning and risk mitigation to managing customs compliance across international markets. You\'ll work closely with sales and project teams, providing expert advice and building strong relationships with third-party providers.

This role offers significant growth opportunities, allowing you to shape and scale the logistics function of a rapidly expanding global business. You\'ll drive continuous improvement, implement best practices, and develop your team\'s capabilities. What makes this position truly interesting is its global scope, the direct impact on the company\'s success, and the chance to contribute to a sustainable future by supporting the circular economy.

Skills Needed

Improvement, Financial, Technical, Compliance, Strategic, Managerial / Operational, Relationship, Sales

About The Company

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

Company Culture

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.

Required Criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent with a minimum of five years\' experience in a Logistics Management role which has included implementing industry best practice and the management and development of a logistics team.
• Experience of project management and capacity planning methodology / software (ideally IFS).
• Excellent relationship management and negotiation skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within inflexible time-frames.
• The ability to adapt to and manage frequent changes in priorities.
• Driving license and the ability to travel outside of UK & Ireland.

Desired Criteria

• Member of the chartered institute of Logistics and Transport
• Excellent people management and interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels; both internally and externally
• The ability to exercise sound judgment when responding to enquiries
• Strong self-motivation with sound organizational skills and attention to detail

Closing DateFriday 14th August, 2026

Contract Typefulltime

SalaryBased on Experience