During Career Week 2026, KN showcased around 35 different internal roles across departments, giving employees visibility into growth and internal mobility opportunities within the company. The initiative is part of a broader career development ecosystem, including a dedicated Talent Program for nurturing future talent through mentoring and structured learning.

Mother's / Father's Day

KNGS Thessaloniki marks Mother's Day and Father's Day each year, celebrating the qualities parenthood brings into the workplace - dedication, resilience, and care - with small tokens of appreciation for colleagues, reflecting the centre's people-first, values-driven culture.

Through our Make-A-Wish Wish Ribbon initiative, colleagues came together to raise over €1,000 in support of Make-A-Wish Greece, helping grant wishes to children facing critical illness, a simple, meaningful way of living our values and giving back to the community.

In May 2026, KN Thessaloniki took part in TechSaloniki, one of the city's leading tech events, connecting with the local tech community, conducting on-site interviews, and sharing knowledge through a workshop on DevOps practices and the evolving IT landscape.

AWS Days came to Thessaloniki for the first time, hosted onsite with colleagues from other hubs joining remotely, including a hands-on workshop held exclusively in person, reflecting the centre's growing role in AWS/cloud expertise within the organisation.

Bring Your Kid to Work Day

On Bring Your Kid to Work Day, KNGS Thessaloniki welcomed employees' children for a full-day program introducing them to logistics and company values through interactive activities, an office tour, and a relay game simulating a shipment's journey, supported by employee volunteers across departments, reflecting KN's family-friendly, community-driven culture.

Thessaloniki TechCenter

What started as a 3-person DevOps team in 2018 has grown into a specialised Global IT team of around 35 people in Thessaloniki, spanning several distinct capability areas, from automation and document intelligence to integrations and platform operations. Our team strengthens standardisation, resilience, and reusable automation across the wider Kuehne+Nagel network, taking on real governance, support, and operational responsibility for the solutions we deliver.
Our focus is on building reusable solutions, operating platforms reliably, governing standards and access, and modernising where value is clear, reducing manual effort and improving visibility across the business through automation, document intelligence, and integrations. Looking ahead, we're driving the centre's evolution towards intelligent automation, AI-enabled document processing, and more resilient, standardised operations.

Facts & Figures

Tech Focus Areas

Team: Power Platform

What they do: Enable low-code/no-code innovation across the organisation - building apps, automating workflows, and empowering teams to create their own practical, self-service solutions integrated with Microsoft 365.

Key tools: Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio), Azure

Team: RPA (Robotic Process Automation)

What they do: We believe diversity makes us stronger. At Tallinn Tech Hub, we are people from 40 different nationalities with nearly 40 % of our leadership roles being held by women.
Key tools: UiPath, Python, Playwright, APIs

Team: Celonis (Process Mining)

What they do: Apply process mining to analyse how business processes actually run across the organisation, uncovering bottlenecks and inefficiencies to drive data-driven process improvement.
Key tools: Celonis

Lobster (Integration)

What they do: Connect systems and automate data exchange through a central middleware platform, handling integrations like ERP, e-commerce, and EDI partner communication by receiving, transforming, and routing data between applications.
Key tools: Lobster Data Platform

Document Input Solutions (DIS)

What they do: Simplify and automate document handling across the organisation, using OCR and AI-driven data extraction to digitise and process documents faster and more accurately for every department that handles paperwork.
Key tools: FlexiCapture, Vantage, K.AI Extract (AI-powered, incl. Google Gemini)

DevOps

What they do: Provide platform administration, infrastructure support, and DevOps/SDLC activities across the centre's product portfolio.
Key tools: Οn-premise & cloud infrastructure (VMs), monitoring & alerting tools, database infrastructure, SFTP