Logistics Operations Leader: Team Impact & Excellence

LyondellBasell Industries

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

LyondellBasell Industries in Houston, TX, seeks an experienced logistics leader to guide the I&D Logistics team. You will coach, develop, and manage performance while ensuring safe, compliant, and cost-effective execution across delivery planning, inventory coordination, and shipment readiness.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Customer Service, Transportation, and Quality to resolve issues and improve end-to-end performance.

Qualifications

At least eight years of relevant experience in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, customer fulfillment, or a related operational environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
Demonstrated (people) leadership experience or leadership of cross-functional teams or initiatives.
Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including concise and accurate business documentation.

Responsibilities

Provide direct leadership, coaching, development, recognition, and performance management for Logistics Operations Specialists.
Ensure safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective execution of assigned logistics operations, including delivery planning, shipment readiness, and inventory coordination.
Lead daily prioritization, workload balancing, staffing coverage, operational handoffs, and business continuity planning.
Establish clear expectations, standard work, escalation paths, and decision-making responsibilities; hold employees accountable for performance, behaviors, and process adherence.
Build a respectful and inclusive environment that promotes trust, accountability, psychological safety, continuous learning, and employee development.
Maintain regular one-on-one meetings and team communication through visible, hands-on leadership during disruptions, staffing constraints, system issues, and elevated workload.
Partner with Manufacturing, Customer Service, Transportation, Operations Planning, Quality, Digital Technology, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and improve end-to-end performance.
Lead response and recovery activities for shipment disruptions, inventory constraints, system issues, quality events, and customer-impacting incidents.
Ensure incidents and complaints receive timely containment, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, assigned ownership, target completion dates, documentation, and effectiveness verification.
Own operational performance routines covering safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, customer service, process compliance, and people indicators; assign corrective actions and elevate barriers when results fall outside expectations.
Ensure team processes, documentation, and controls comply with applicable company, quality, audit, regulatory, product stewardship, and business requirements.
Maintain current procedures, desk documentation, cross-training plans, backup coverage, shift or desk handoffs, and manual workarounds for system disruptions.
Lead operational readiness, testing, training, adoption, stabilization, and post-implementation follow-up for process, automation, and technology changes.
Identify systemic risks, recurring failures, data or control gaps, automation opportunities, and process improvements; elevate recommendations to the appropriate owners.
Coordinate with internal functions and Logistics Service Providers to document, elevate, and resolve recurring execution, service-performance, or process-compliance concerns.
Communicate operational risks, priorities, decisions, ownership, recovery plans, and difficult news clearly, accurately, and promptly to stakeholders.
Model LyondellBasell competencies and reinforce safe, ethical, inclusive, customer-focused decision-making and strategic contribution.