Position Title:  Regional Logistics Operations Manager

Regional Logistics Operations Manager 

Would you like to work in an international Fortune 500 company (Top Employer 2026 award winner) where individual development is of paramount importance? Do you believe in our vision of a smoke-free future? Apply now for the position of Regional Logistics Operations Manager.

THE ORGANISATION
Philip Morris is one of the world’s largest international tobacco companies, with more than 82,700 employees worldwide. Our employees speak more than 80 languages and come from all regions of the world. We have 50 production facilities worldwide and our products are sold in more than 180 countries.

At Philip Morris, we strive for a future where smoking is a thing of the past and we are all committed to make this reality as soon as possible. Our vision is clear: to lead the transformation of our industry by fully focusing our efforts, energy and resources to offering better, smoke-free alternatives for adults who otherwise continue to smoke. We are determined to change the world for the better and change to the benefit of all adult smokers and society at large.

We believe in the following values.

Innovation | Integrity | Excellent Execution | Collaboration | Responsibility

THE OPPORTUNITY
In this high impact strategic role, you will spearhead transformational B2B initiatives, strengthen customer partnerships, and embed best-in class operational excellence across regions. impact strategic role, you will spearhead transformational B2B initiatives, strengthen customer partnerships, and embed best in class operational excellence across regions.

Your mission: drive end to end logistics performance, elevate customer experience, and ensure our global network is primed for sustainable growth. This position is ideal for an ambitious logistics professional who combines strategic acumen with operational depth, someone who thrives in a dynamic global environment and is ready to influence change at scale.

Responsibilities of this role:

• Global Deployment & Capability Building: lead the global rollout of proven logistics services and capabilities by partnering closely with central and local stakeholders across IT, Finance, Customer Service, Commercial, LSPs, and key customers, act as a catalyst for global alignment, ensuring markets adopt standardized, scalable, and future proof logistics solutions, and contribute to the company’s strategic knowledge base and support global transformation programs through data driven insights.
• Performance & Continuous Improvement: drive continuous performance enhancement across cost, service levels, and sustainability areas in alignment with global logistics strategy, design and deploy performance management and governance frameworks that ensure PMI, LSPs, and Customers deliver expected benefits, define KPIs, set targets, and establish structured review cadences to ensure both robust operational controls and strategic oversight, oversee day-to-day logistics execution globally, enabling markets to accelerate direct to consumer initiatives and strengthen relationships with strategic B2B partners, including national distributors, and lead structured performance and process reviews, elevating loss analysis, root cause management, and value creation capabilities through analytical tools and benchmarking. cause management, and value creation capabilities through analytical tools and benchmarking.
• Logistics Service Provider Strategy: partner with Procurement and market teams to drive strategic LSP selection, development, and performance management, guide RFP processes to ensure solutions meet global standards, maximize synergy opportunities, and support long-term strategic fit, lead the definition and validation of SLA and MSA frameworks across internal stakeholder groups (Finance, Procurement, Markets, Quality, Security, IT, Tax), shape negotiation strategies for critical contract elements — including confidentiality, termination clauses, subcontracting, liability, and bonus/penalty structures — ensuring PMI’s competitiveness and risk mitigation.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related topics
• 10+ years of diverse Supply Chain experience, ideally spanning multiple subject areas within large, complex, international FMCG or consumer electronics organizations.
• Recent (last 2-3 years) experience creating and implementing D2C/B2B strategies, to include  route-to-market, logistics, last mile services, global cross-border shipments, reverse logistics strategies.
• Knowledge of logistics suppliers and IT service companies in direct-to-consumer network, with proven experience of leading collaborative logistics outsourcing relationships across a wide range of geographies and hierarchy levels
• Effective negotiation, communication and influencing skills with the ability to inspire change in situations of decentralized highly matrixed organizations and across a diverse audience.
• Ability to quickly process and understand complexity & ambiguity and define right solutions to tough problems. Has curiosity to look for new ways & opportunities to bring value, simplify processes and/or reduce cost.

RISE TO THE CHALLENGE
You will join a dynamic, international and fast-paced work environment in a rapidly evolving industry and will interact with different levels of experience and expertise across the Company. We offer a contract with a competitive salary commensurate to the professional experience.

Our company offers you a fresh perspective. Here, you will never stop exploring and discovering. We take on-the-job learning to another level, giving you every opportunity to develop your career and reach your full potential. This position will advance your experience with innovative technologies, services, and processes. Backed by a competitive salary and compensation package, you will work in a professional setting with clients and team members from all over the world.