About This Role
This role leads the global logistics organization and is accountable for the safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective movement and storage of products across the distribution network. This includes company-managed distribution centers, 3PL/4PL operations, and global transportation. The Senior Director provides strategic and operational leadership for warehousing, transportation, and distribution while establishing common standards, performance measures, and governance across regions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the global logistics strategy, including distribution network design, warehousing, transportation, and 3PL/4PL operations, aligned with company and customer priorities
- Lead company-managed and third-party warehouse/distribution operations and global transportation, with accountability for service, cost, productivity, quality, safety, inventory accuracy, capacity, and delivery performance
- Establish common logistics standards, governance, operating procedures, performance measures, and management routines across the global network
- Use data and key performance indicators to identify gaps, prioritize opportunities, and drive measurable, sustained improvements in on-time delivery, cycle time, capacity, utilization, cost, and customer service
- Own carrier and logistics-provider performance; partner with Procurement on sourcing, contracting, capacity, and contingency coverage
- Partner with Planning, Manufacturing, Customer Delivery, Commercial, Quality, and regional teams to resolve logistics issues impacting customers, support product launches and network changes, and improve end-to-end execution
- Ensure logistics activities comply with applicable quality requirements, trade and customs requirements, security standards, environmental health and safety expectations, and company policies and procedures
- Lead logistics risk management and business continuity planning, including assessment of capacity, supplier, lane, facility, geopolitical, and other operational risks
- Drive process standardization, automation, systems improvements, and effective use of ERP, warehouse management, transportation management, and analytics tools in partnership with Information Technology
- Develop annual operating plans, budgets, resource plans, and productivity roadmaps; manage performance to financial commitments and identify opportunities to reduce waste and total logistics cost
- Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global organization, including leaders of teams, with clear expectations, accountability, succession planning, and capability development
- Lead warehouse startups, site transfers, and 3PL/4PL implementations through operational readiness, cutover, and stabilization
- Work on special projects and perform other duties as assigned
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