Logistics Director, Americas Operations & Excellence

Vertiv Corporation; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv Corporation, headquartered in Westerville, OH, seeks a Logistics Director to drive operational excellence across the Americas. You will architect and implement innovative logistics strategies, lead Lean Six Sigma improvements, and shape best-in-class inbound and outbound operations.

This role reports to the VP of Logistics and Customer Service and leads a team across North America. You will oversee the design of standardized processes, optimize transportation networks, and manage budgets

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of management in logistics.
• Working knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Travel: 50% travel.

Responsibilities

• Set performance goals for the operations and communicates with each team member how their responsibilities are integrated into the success of the team.
• Analyze and improve performance metrics vs the performance goals.
• Conduct regular control point meetings to review performance and project progress with each Vertiv inbound and outbound operation.
• Provide leadership to experienced professionals, junior managers, and/or supervisors.
• Overall responsibility for the logistics, transportation, warehousing and distribution strategy, operating model, talent and execution of work activities for North America.
• Regularly engages with and supports operations and supply chain functions.
• Establish policies and procedures to achieve organizational goals and ensure compliance with country specific laws and regulations.
• Collaborates with Logistics Procurement to establish sourcing strategy for small parcel, less than truckload, truckload, intermodal, ocean, air, and 3PL distribution/warehousing spend.
• Implement advanced analytics, robotic process automation, transportation management system enhancements and control tower technologies and practices related to the logistics function and key markets.
• Establish and manage organizational budget.
• Ensure colleague engagement by communicating goals and objectives and rewarding and recognizing performance of colleagues.
• Lead key cross-enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Require detailed oriented mindset to collect, validate, interpret, and analyze complex data, to identify issues and trends to support fact-based transportation decision making.
• Perform and assist with other duties as assigned.
• Manages a portfolio of improvement projects including efforts to advocate on behalf of logistics operations with partner functions.
• Drive freight and handling cost recovery with freight and handling.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics or related field

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Vertiv Corporation, headquartered in Westerville, OH, seeks a Logistics Director to drive operational excellence across the Americas. You will architect and implement innovative logistics strategies, lead Lean Six Sigma improvements, and shape best-in-class inbound and outbound operations.

This role reports to the VP of Logistics and Customer Service and leads a team across North America. You will oversee the design of standardized processes, optimize transportation networks, and manage budgets