American Tire Distributors Hiring for Supply Chain Deployment Manager Job at Huntersville, NC Full Time

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Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation’s premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description:

The tire business is evolving – and so is ATD. Through our transformation we continually look for ways to greater penetrate the replacement tire market. American Tire Distributors is one of the largest independent providers of tires, supplies and custom wheels to the North American replacement tire market. ATD also runs one of the largest B2C tire e-commerce platforms (Tirebuyer.com) and operates a fast growing U.S. dealer franchise program (Tire Pros) and a recent addition in the 3PL logistics arena (Transportation and Logistics, LLC.) ATD operates more than 130 distribution centers in North America, serving approximately 80,000 customers. The company offers an unsurpassed breadth and depth of inventory, frequent delivery and value-added services to tire and automotive service customers. ATD employs approximately 4,800 employees across its distribution center network in the USA and Canada. The Supply Chain Deployment Manager will report the VP Operations. As part of the Supply Chain Center of Excellence, this position will work with senior leadership to build best practices and roll-out key supply chain initiatives to the regions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• On-time and successful Supply Chain initiative deployment
• Implementation of tools and best practices
• Collaborate with leadership to define, refine and execute business strategy
• Proactively identify opportunities for performance improvements and collaborate effectively to develop solutions
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to recommend innovative solutions to cross-functional business partners
• Project oversight, manage activity completion to ensure timely and successful project launch
• ELS Validation and effectively measure productivity gains
• Creation and validation of observations (TZA/SPARK)
• Validate reporting needs and drive drive productivity at the DC, Sub-Region, Region, and Network levels
• Develop short team oversight to run the business activities which drive customer service excellence and bottom-line results
• Demonstration of ATD iCare Values (Innovative, Collaborative, Accountable, Respectful, Excellent)

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or related field and 4 + years’ experience
  • Additional Project Management Certifications will be taken into consideration
• Experience: 4+ years in Supply Chain or related business experience
  • Experience in project planning and coordination and working on projects or programs requiring the integration of cross- functional business solutions.
  • Experience using formal business process improvement methodologies.

Key Competencies

• Ability to assess and re-design business processes to meet corporate objectives.
• Ability to work well cross-functionally with a variety of people to accomplish goals and support others.
• Knowledge / understanding of computer applications skills: MS Project, Power BI, Visio, Project Management tools, etc.
• Practices servant-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and influencing and mentoring junior team members.
• High level of business acumen and solving of complex problems

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities

required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Travel required: 5% of the time, travel throughout the U.S. and may require overnight stays.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations. Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment in any way for any person. All employees hired by American Tire Distributors, Inc. are employees at will and the company reserves the right to terminate employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

Build a challenging and rewarding career with us!

American Tire Distributors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace