VP Global Logistics

Columbus

**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**: 1. **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. 1. **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. 1. **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. 1. **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. 1. **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 **Desired Skills and Experience** \* 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