Senior Manager of Warehouse and Logistics
The Senior Manager of Warehouse and Logistics is a leadership position within the Supply Chain organization. The ideal candidate will be an expert in implementing advanced logistics initiatives and transformations. Your responsibilities will include championing transformation across the organization, eliminating inefficiencies, and streamlining processes to leverage data for decision-making. This role involves driving business value and assisting teams in achieving company and department objectives. The successful candidate will be passionate about innovation and technology, with a practical focus on executing and delivering solutions to the business.
Duties may include but are not limited to:
- Provide overall leadership to those engaged in capacity planning activities and drive continuous improvement.
- Communicate and coordinate with business units, Engineering, Sourcing, and Planning teams, as well as management, by providing insightful analytics to support business decisions.
- Actively participate in the leadership team to drive the overall operations and technology roadmap.
- Optimize production flows and the supply chain network, reducing cycle times and improving yields.
- Demonstrate a good track record in optimizing supply chain networks and capacity models, resulting in higher throughput and shorter cycle times.
- Provide hands-on status updates to management.
- Serve as the key business partner to provide financial recommendations on cost drivers, capacity utilization, margins, and other metrics.
- Aggregate demand forecasts and create infrastructure delivery roadmaps by region.
- Develop operational metrics and insights to provide guidance to operations, drive budgeting, business decisions, and KPIs.
- Partner with sourcing to ensure adequate power and space are available globally and define strategies for needed expansion.
- Deliver significant supply chain savings by utilizing optimization methodologies for network redesign and inventory optimization.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualification/Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in information systems or data science.
- Experience in rolling out advanced supply chain initiatives and supply chain transformations.
- Deep knowledge of supply chain concepts and algorithms.
- Ability to build and manage a team to support cross-functional teams in implementing supply chain solutions.
- Proven track record of using data and insights to drive process improvements.
- Ability to develop cross-functional relationships with sales, supply chain, demand planning, and business units.
- 5+ years of related supply chain management, systems implementation, supply chain consulting, or equivalent experience driving supply chain transformations.
- Full implementation experience with at least one of the following technologies: Blue Yonder (formerly JDA) or SAP.
- Extensive experience integrating into core ERP systems (SAP ECC and MRP).
- Proven track record of leading successful digital transformation projects.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Excellent communication skills and presentation abilities.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to build and validate statistical models.
- Experience in ocean container operations from Asia to North America and drayage with multiple ports.
- Supply chain/transportation experience with Mexico factories, US Customs, customs brokerage management, and international air freight forwarding.