Manager of New Operations Mobilization

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🕒 May 18

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LOTS Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Transport • SaaS • B2B

<LOTS Group> LOTS Group is a logistics and technology company building a global net‑zero logistics ecosystem. It provides eco‑friendly freight network services that reduce CO2 emissions (up to ~40% lower than EU benchmarks) through consolidation, optimized flows, real‑time monitoring, and advanced planning. LOTS also offers Pathfinder, an AI‑driven platform/SaaS that analyzes, simulates, and automates transitions to electric trucks, biofuels, and multimodal transport to help shippers and carriers plan cost‑effective, scalable sustainable logistics networks.

📋 Description

• Establish the New Operations Mobilization (MNO) function from inception, defining the operating model, methodology, processes, tools, governance and KPIs, with the objective of creating a permanent institutional capability to enable new business. • Lead end-to-end mobilization of new operations, from contract signing through stabilization and handover to the manager responsible for the ongoing operation, ensuring disciplined execution and adherence to the plan. • Ensure compliance with the business case during ramp-ups by rigorously monitoring costs, timelines, headcount, CAPEX, OPEX and performance, and acting immediately on deviations to protect contract profitability. • Design and run robust pilots for new operations, defining scope, success metrics, exit criteria and structured capture of lessons learned to reduce risk and accelerate the stabilization curve. • Build and maintain operational mobilization playbooks (technical, people, governance and transition), ensuring each operation is delivered to the responsible manager with clear methods, defined processes and a trained team. • Lead and coordinate the multifunctional mobilization squad, composed of representatives from People & Culture (P&C), Finance, Center of Excellence (CoE), Procurement and PMO, aligning priorities, responsibilities and execution cadence. • Serve as a structured interface between New Business (the contract origin) and the operational areas that will assume the operation after stabilization, ensuring continuity, knowledge transfer and quality of handover. • Manage critical mobilization risks (operational, contractual, people, supplier and regulatory), developing contingency plans and escalating issues promptly that threaten the success of the ramp-up. • Lead, together with People & Culture, the personnel ramp-up for new operations, ensuring recruitment, onboarding, training and readiness of operational teams before go-live and during stabilization. • Coordinate, together with Procurement and the CoE, the contracting of suppliers, infrastructure, fleet, technology and other enablers required for mobilization, within defined timelines, costs and standards. • Establish mobilization governance rituals (status reports, committees, milestones and gates) with executive leadership, clients and internal areas, ensuring visibility, transparency and timely decisions. • Capture lessons learned from each mobilization, continuously evolving the methodology, playbooks and the area's maturity curve, with the goal of increasing predictability and speed over time. • Recruit, train and develop the MNO team's staff, establishing a culture of discipline, ownership and operational excellence from the first team.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics, Economics or related fields; • MBA or postgraduate degree in Project Management, Operations, Logistics or Strategy is a plus; • Solid experience in logistics operations, management of complex projects, contract ramp-ups, operational consulting or related areas; • Experience in mobilizing new operations or implementing large-scale contracts (preferably in road transport, logistics, mobility or industrial sectors); • Experience in founding/leading new areas, programs or teams; • Experience coordinating multifunctional squads and interfacing with areas such as People & Culture, Finance, Procurement and PMO; • Project financial management and adherence to business cases (CAPEX, OPEX, headcount); • Engineering and management of road transport operations; • Risk management and contingency planning; • Leadership of multifunctional squads and cross-functional coordination; • Executive governance, status reporting and stakeholder management; • Data analysis and development of mobilization KPIs; • Advanced/Fluent English – a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Food Allowance (Ticket Superflex) • Meal Voucher (Ticket Superflex) • National Bradesco Health and Dental Plan • Medication Reimbursement (E-Pharma) • Life Insurance • Discount on Volkswagen vehicle purchases • Wellhub • Partnership with Petlove • Access to Scania Clube SBC