Auburn Hills
Head of Logistics Planning
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your Tasks
- Lead the logistics planning team in developing and implementing end-to-end logistics processes for new product launches, from supplier through customer delivery, including internal material flow.
- Lead alignment between Logistics Planning and plant cross-functional teams to ensure successful and seamless program launches.
- Represent the Logistics function, including Plant Logistics and Logistics Planning, in North America Manufacturing Concept Reviews to ensure material flow principles are considered, aligned, and optimized.
- Define and monitor goals and objectives for the Logistics Planning team to ensure alignment with regional logistics priorities and business needs.
- Represent Plant Logistics and Logistics Planning in North America Buying Decision Meetings to ensure decisions consider total landed cost.
- Partner with Indirect Purchasing to negotiate competitive pricing and favorable terms with logistics service providers.
- Lead the development and governance of standard operating processes within the Americas region in collaboration with Central Logistics.
- Review and approve annual logistics investment and cost budget plans for plant logistics and logistics planning.
- Provide oversight of logistics operations across the Americas region, including plants, to ensure process adherence and drive delivery efficiency.
- Communicate regional logistics performance to senior management at regional and global headquarters.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or other Logistics/Materials Management/Packaging related major from a four-year college or university.
- 6–8 years of work experience, including plant experience.
- Extensive knowledge of transportation, customs, packaging, materials management, material flow, problem solving, quality systems and OEM logistics requirements.
- English – business fluency.
- Spanish – basic knowledge.