VP Global Logistics
Vice President Global Logistics
- Title: Vice President Global Logistics
- Location: Columbus OH
- Compensation: $270,000 to $320,000 + Bonus + LTIP + Exciting Benefits
A fast-growing, Multi-Billion-Dollar manufacturing business is looking to hire a new world-class VP Global Logistics, 2 levels down from the CEO, to help lead Transformational change, Centralization, and Scale-up of the Logistics & Supply Chain programs across the NA, EMEA, and APAC regions. With an exceptional platform for career growth, opportunity to "Build" + "Scale" a legacy operation, this is very much a business and job opportunity that one will look back on and say "Right Place, Right Time".
Key Responsibilities:
- Global Network Redesign & Distribution Footprint Optimization
- Execute an Enterprise-Wide Network Overhaul: Conduct a deep diagnostic of the current global logistics footprint and lead decisive actions to streamline, reposition, and right-size warehouses, cross-docks, and fulfillment points to remove duplication and materially lower end‑to‑end supply chain costs.
- Orchestrate End‑to‑End Material Flow: Integrate previously disconnected regional logistics movements into a single, harmonized global flow that stabilizes lead times and unlocks working capital by reducing excess buffer stock.
- Standardize the Global Operating Backbone: Replace fragmented regional practices with a unified operating framework, common processes, shared metrics, aligned safety standards, and consistent service expectations worldwide.
- Engineer for Future Growth: Design a scalable, durable network that can absorb 2-3× volume increases while keeping cost growth disproportionately low, ensuring long‑term operational leverage.
- Logistics Recovery & Operational Excellence
- Fix Root Causes, Not Symptoms: Tackle persistent service breakdowns and structural cost inefficiencies with durable system changes rather than temporary workarounds.
- Build True Cost Visibility: Develop detailed, multi-dimensional insight into logistics costs across geographies, products, and customers, enabling informed margin decisions instead of static budget management.
- Make Service Reliability Non‑Negotiable: Establish OTIF performance as a baseline expectation, delivering the predictability and execution discipline required by the company's mission-critical customer base.
- Digital Enablement & Advanced Analytics
- Modernize the Technology Core: Transition away from manual, spreadsheet-driven execution toward an integrated digital ecosystem anchored by best‑in‑class TMS, WMS, and centralized control tower capabilities.
- Deploy Smart Automation: Identify and implement targeted, high‑return automation initiatives across warehousing, transportation planning, and network optimization using AI and advanced algorithms.
- Shift to Predictive Operations: Equip the organization with modeling, simulation, and scenario tools that enable proactive decision‑making rather than reactive problem solving.
- Global Procurement, Trade, and Ecosystem Strategy
- Simplify and Strengthen the Partner Landscape: Reduce complexity across the carrier and 3PL ecosystem while negotiating global, enterprise-level agreements that maximize scale advantages and strategic alignment.
- Optimize Cross-Border Execution: Redesign international trade flows and customs strategies to increase velocity, reduce friction, and improve resiliency across key global corridors.
- Clarify Ownership Decisions: Define a clear insource-versus-outsource philosophy to balance control, flexibility, and scalability across logistics capabilities.
- Transformation Leadership & Talent Development
- Lead a Mindset Shift: Move regional organizations from autonomous, localized decision-making toward a globally integrated network mentality that prioritizes enterprise outcomes.
- Build a World-Class Logistics Organization: Identify skill gaps, attract elite logistics talent, and actively develop a succession pipeline capable of leading the company's global logistics organization into the future.
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- 15+ years experience in Global Logistics
- 7+ years in Industrial Manufacturing
- Project & Strategic accomplishments around Transformational Change
- Warehousing & Transportation Leadership experience
- Strong process improvement & cost saving track record
- Experience with managing teams of direct reports
- Bachelor's Degree
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