Head of Logistics I

Location

Pacesetting. Passionate. Together. HELLA, one of the leading automotive suppliers worldwide, has shaped the industry with innovative lighting systems and vehicle electronics. In addition, the company is one of the most important partners of the aftermarket and independent workshops. What motivates us: Shaping the mobility of tomorrow and fostering the central market trends such as autonomous driving, efficiency and electrification, connectivity and digitization as well as individualization. Every day, 36,000 employees worldwide are committed to this with passion, know-how and innovative strength.

Your Tasks

Job Objective

Direct, manage and coordinate a medium plant logistics operation incl. budget responsibility, focusing on all topics related to supplier logistics, intra-logistics and customer logistics.

Duties and Responsibilities

A Logistics

1. Direct, manage and optimize all logistics resources and budgets within a medium plant operation (personnel, inventory, transportation, infrastructure / equipment, external resources) to achieve minimal total costs and meet customer requirements.
2. Plan the future resource requirements of a medium plant operation.
3. Direct and control the design of material- and information flows and logistics processes of a medium complex plant operation.
4. Responsible for the implementation of a suitable logistics controlling.
5. Coordinate and balance conflicting interests of all logistics personnel and internal / external stakeholders to provide optimal solutions in a medium plant operation.
6. Manage bottleneck situations and customer escalations.
7. Participation in global strategic projects and facilitate pilot projects.
8. Secure the implementation and application of global logistics and HELLA standards (e.g. process, equipment, health & safety, environment etc.).
9. Ensure the specified logistics quality of the location and qualify underperforming suppliers to meet the required quality standards.
10. Participate in internal and external negotiations.
11. Arrange for relevant declarations and clearance measures to be carried out considering legal and country-specific points of view.
12. Drive continuous improvement and establish process improvements.
13. Collaborate with regional logistics to consistently increase logistics performance.
14. Responsible for achieving the targeted logistics KPIs within plant logistics.

B Project Management

1. Supervise and execute the management of high complexity logistics projects from technical and organizational perspective along the supply chain and product lifecycle, incl. rollout and sustainable implementation of corporate standard processes.
2. Manage and optimize all logistics resources and budgets within a medium to complex plant operation (personnel, inventory, transportation, infrastructure / equipment, external resources) to achieve minimal.
3. Coordinate and balance conflicting interests of all logistics personnel and internal / external stakeholders to provide optimal solutions in a medium to complex plant operation.
4. Ensure the specified logistics quality of the location and qualify underperforming suppliers to meet the required quality standards. Secure the implementation and application of global logistics and HELLA standards (e.g. process, equipment, health & safety, environment etc.).
5. Responsible for achieving the targeted logistics KPIs within plant logistics.
6. Supervise and execute the management of high complexity logistics projects from technical and organizational perspective along the supply chain and product lifecycle, incl. rollout and sustainable implementation of corporate standard processes.
7. Managing of employees according to targets and delegation, to select, to qualify and further develop employees based on a culture of trust, control effectiveness, in order to develop and compensate potential and promote individual competencies, to achieve the targets of the department.

Your Qualifications

• University degree
• More than 2 up to 4 years of job experience as a Head of Logistics
• Experience in automotive company
• English
• Knowledge in SAP or ERP System
• Leadership skills

Take the opportunity to reveal your potential within a global, family-run company that offers you the best possible conditions for progressing in your career.

Please send us your application through our careers portal, citing reference number req18928.

Noel Vargas

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