Spectrum Brands Hiring for Director of North America Distribution Job at Saint Louis, MO Full Time

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

Job Summary

The Director of North America Distribution position requires the background, experience, and leadership skills necessary to provide effective management with continued process improvements of regional warehouse operations, transportation delivery and operational budget management. The position works directly with business owners to ensure the successful on time and on quality delivery of Spectrum Brands products to the customer. Responsibilities include developing, evaluating and implementing long term strategic distribution planning, driving cost management, delivery performance, and transition activities. Additional responsibilities include facilitation of site and process rationalization in areas of automation and ecommerce.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Implement global logistics strategies into local or regional logistics models to support and optimize the processing and distribution of product
• Manage local logistics teams; apply the necessary local modifications for the physical distribution of products as well as the administrative control and information flow.
• Regional sponsor for partnerships with global 3rd Party Logistics, 3PLs that can be used by the business to deliver outsourced services for warehousing, transport and international logistics.
• Identify and promote to the global logistics groups local best practices developed and implemented regionally that maybe adopted across and add value to other parts of the global network.
• Manage and oversee the deployment of local procedures and processes for logistics planning and execution across local businesses and/or country clusters
• Oversee and manage the execution of export/import compliance requirements across the region.

Education and Experience Profile

• Bachelor’s degree required with a Supply Chain focus desirable; MBA is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years operational logistics experience in relevant industries is required.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with 3PL services provider or freight forwarding industry experience is required.
• Strong SAP experience including Transportation Management (TMS), warehouse management systems (EMW & ECC) is required.
• Proven 3PL and warehouse operations leadership with cross-functional business processes understanding is required.

Required Skills

• Must be able to travel up to 30% with the ability to travel internationally.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage diverse teams through either direct or indirect reporting relationship.
• Must have knowledge and experience of regional and international shipping and associated regulatory requirements (including safety, FDA, hazardous materials, security and import/export compliance law).
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiating skills along with an ability to evaluate complex supply chain solutions and articulate these in an understandable way.
• Effectively utilize communication skills, both oral and written, in order to present, influence and persuade other inside and outside of the organization.
• Excellent knowledge of the end to end supply chain, with a clarity for understanding the importance and interdependencies associated with each stage of the process related to Deliver — Plan, Source, Make, Deliver & Return.
• Must be experienced delivering to cost and schedule.
• Must be able to balance and meet multi-stakeholder demands in a rapid pace environment.
• Ability to analyze and organize facts to effectively present material both verbally and in writing.
• Interface with employees at all levels in the organization: the ability to provide leadership through influence.
• Must be skilled in facilitating dynamic, cross-functional teams to achieve outstanding performance.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office computer systems and applications, with intermediate to advanced skill levels in ERP Systems, spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, and project management.Must demonstrate the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity.

Work Environment

• Position has the ability to be remote
• Availability to travel regularly and on short notice to support internal reviews of distribution centers and 3PL operation.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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Job Reference: US17162