Acumed Hiring for Director, Global Logistics Job at Hillsboro, OR Full Time

About Us

Acumed is a global leader of innovative orthopaedic and medical solutions developed to improve patient care. With over three decades of experience in the orthopaedic industry, our mission is to aid the afflicted through the ingenuity of our minds, the labor of our hands and the compassion of our hearts. The company is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon with a global sales and distribution network supported by offices worldwide.

Director, Global Logistics

Duties/Responsibilities

• Planning, directing, coordinating, and leading the global logistics team, including logistics, transportation, freight, small parcel, and customs clearance, ensuring development and implementation of efficient operations to meet current and future needs of the organization.

• Defining, establishing, implementing, and communicating logistics strategies to complement corporate objectives and to ensure best value routes to meet customer and supply chain demands.

• Establishing, communicating, and implementing logistics-related policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent support and execution.

• Overseeing export orders including international transfer and shipments to our global distribution centers.

• Maintaining knowledge of emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in logistics management.

• Establishing and administering the department’s budget.

• Negotiating freight and small parcel contracts globally.

• Leads the strategy, design, development, and deployment of technical solutions that have significant strategic, long-term impact on the business and achieve competitive advantage for the company; aligned with the strategic objectives of the company and future capability roadmaps.

• Ensures continuous improvement of Quality, Cost, and Delivery occurs in the supply chain and provides report(s) to confirm status and progress.

• Drives standardization of logistics functions program-wide in accordance with company policies and applicable laws and regulations.

• Owns the development and implementation of inventory control systems that maintain and track the status of orders, inventory levels, and production requirements.

• Attends and participates in a variety of meetings and task force groups to improve quality and outcomes, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve problems, and maintain specific level of knowledge pertaining to new developments, new task efforts, and new policy requirements.

• Be responsible for meeting internal KPIs and SLAs that demonstrate speed and agility to achieve all cost, quality, and delivery goals for all product lines.

• Develops and champions risk mitigation projects – e.g. Second Source

• Collaborates with business partners to deliver year over year productivity and supply risk mitigation plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Operations, Global Supply Chain or a related field (additional 5 years of direct experience in Lieu of a degree). Advanced Degree (Master’s/MBA) highly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in international and domestic logistics.
• 5+ years direct experience with Supply Chain/Logistics management, including experience with fulfillment and logistics solution providers.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed work environment with a demonstrated track record of leading within sophisticated organizations requiring strong influence leadership skills the ability to work collaboratively across all levels is a must.
• Demonstrated ability to influence critical business outcomes in a distributed global environment.
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements, and architecture conversations with all partners (management, business users, and technology resources)
• Experience with data-driven analytics, metrics, KPIs to measure and drive results.
• Demonstrated experience leading a diverse, high-performing team which includes fostering “ready now” talent as future successors for key roles.
• Thorough working knowledge of applicable ISO9001 and FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) requirements

Acumed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

As an equal opportunity employer, Acumed is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying to Acumed and need special assistance or accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].