Work Transformation for the Logistics Sector
JSP261358
Overview
The Singapore logistics sector has faced heavy disruptions from in recent years – adapting operations and heightened demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, implementing automation and digital technology to enhance efficiency, and managing volatile trade compliance requirements due to rising geopolitical tensions. As such, these new expectations have placed pressure on the workforce to evolve their ways of working. This session will explore how the jobs within the sector should be redesigned to support future business priorities and operating model changes.
Event Detail
Date | Thursday, 27 October 2026 |
Time | 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM |
Venue | SBF Center, Level 6, Padang Room 1 |
Consultant / Organisation | Marsh (previously known as Mercer) |
Programme/Agenda
During the session, Marsh will facilitate a sharing and training session on how companies can transform their workforce in response to trends that the sector is facing. The key focus will be on how job redesign can support work transformation, with specific initiatives discussed in breakout groups by sub-sectors to go deep into insights by jobs.
Key areas participants will hear about:
- Global logistics trends, how these translate locally and key workforce implications for local logistics players we have recently spoken to
- Deeper dive into an initial view of how Warehouse Operations will be digitally transformed
- Sharing of Marsh’s work design methodology, key watch outs and success stories
The agenda will be as follows:
Time | Program / Session | Speaker / Facilitator |
2:00-2:15 PM | Registration / Welcome | SBF |
2:15-2:30 PM | EWTP / WDG(JR+) Briefing | SBF |
2:30-2:50 PM | Sharing of global and sectoral trends (e.g. automation, geopolitical trade disruptions, demographic changes) within in logistics and participant discussions | Marsh
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2:50-3:05 PM | Facilitate participant discussion on how different sub-sectors / job families are responding to these trends | |
3:05-3:15 PM | Sharing of a case study of warehouse job transformation | |
3:15-3:30 PM | Sharing of work design / job redesign methodology | |
3:30-3:45 PM | Tea Break | |
3:45-4:30 PM | Break out group activity on job redesign for a specific job and group sharing | |
4:30-4:45 PM | Sharing of best practices / case studies for implementing job redesign | |
4:45-5:00 PM | Q&A / Closing | Marsh + SBF |
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND
Key Learning Outcomes
- Understand how global logistics trends have impacted the local market, alongside key workforce implications based on recent insights from local players
- Gain perspectives on how digital technologies are transforming warehouse operations and obtain peer insights on how digital technologies are reshaping their own workforce and skill requirements
- Learn Marsh’s sector-agnostic work design methodology, including proven success stories and critical pitfalls to avoid during implementation
- Gain hands-on experience of applying the work design methodology to 2-3 specific job roles
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Business leaders / senior management
- Transformation / Operations / Digital leads
- HR / Human Capital / People leaders
- Sector: Logistics
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 - Tuesday, 27 October 2026 
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
160 Robinson Road, #06-01SBF Center, Padang Room 1