Head of Logistics, Supply Chain & Sales Operations

Job Description

Position will supervise a team: provide employee development, training, and drive the performance management process as well as manage an efficient organizational structure.

Responsibilities:

• 5+ years of experience leading, guiding and directing a team that is responsible for executing deliverables in support of the logistic organization’s business objectives.
• Provides leadership of one of the key areas within GM Global Logistics/Containers to ensure business objectives are met or exceeded in all areas including customer, quality, service, responsiveness, people, product, and financial initiatives.
• Create an effective and efficient Order to Delivery process for D2C operations.
• Lead short term demand planning, and interface with production planning team in USA to ensure production capacity is allocated to support our commercial budget goals
• Communicates within the function as well as other functions, external affiliates, regulatory agencies.
• Work closely with internal functions such as Finance & Sales
• Responsible for supporting relationship management with logistic suppliers and service providers
• Influences others within the organization to accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Identify problems, update or modify work methods that may be complex in the work area without the benefit of defined procedures.
• Promote GM’s values and makes customer-focused decisions.
• Hold accountability for staffing, communicating, training and development, in addition to, directing and prioritization of work, evaluating performance, and removing roadblocks.
• Provides technical leadership to team and interacts and collaborates with multi-functional teams to meet targets.

Hiring processes:You will identify & lead staffing initiatives for work team. Part of the duties will include conducting regularly scheduled group meetings, communicating GM policies & procedures, leadership and safety messages. You will craft specific to functional communication on vision & strategy, which may include preparing and giving presentations.

Training & Developing:Ensures employees are in compliance with all mandatory GM training and any specific training related to functional responsibility. You will need to understands & support employee’s career development goals as well as develop and execute initiatives to improve work team capability and increase work team capacity.

Delegation:Assigns and balances workload for direct reports. You will also set individual employee and group priorities.

Monitoring & Approving GM Records:You will make decision about employee work and overtime schedules, expenses, and other work-related data.

Evaluating Performance and Behaviors:Offer direct hires, candid & constructive feedback and facilitate performance interventions when necessary.

Recognition:Formally & informally recognize employee’s contributions. Timely and consistent feedback to direct employee’s as appropriate will be required. As manager, you will also participate in compensation planning and administer compensation treatment.

Removing Roadblocks & Resolving Issues/Complaints: Observes and steps up to remove roadblocks and resolve potential issues.

About GM

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Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.