Porsche Cars North America Hiring for Senior Manager, Vehicle Logistics & Port Operations Job at Atlanta, GA Full Time

Tasks

Position overview

To manage all vehicle aspects of vehicle logistics (inbound ocean freight, port processing, outbound dealer delivery, marine inspections, company vehicle processing, company vehicle refurbishment, wholesale planning, wholesale attainment, wholesale forecasting and other activities and related projects. To plan, organize and manage in order to ensure that all Porsche vehicles are properly received, inspected, processed, repaired, scheduled, and delivered in accordance with Porsche worldwide standards.

Roles & responsibilities

Primary responsibilities:

• Manages a team of 15 FTES at headquarters in Atlanta and in six different port locations in the US
• Develop and maintain procedures and controls for all vehicle movements into North America and Canada.
• Responsible for complete port operations in Jacksonville, FL, Houston, TX, Davisville, RI, Baltimore, MD, San Diego, CA, Benicia, CA and Halifax, NS Canada and Body Shop Operations is Brunswick, GA.
• Coordinate vessel receipt, purification, discharge, marine damage inspections, and outbound planning and transportation of vehicles through all seven ports to U.S. and Canadian dealers.
• Develop a yearly, quarterly and monthly wholesale forecast and corresponding processing and logistics planning and procedures to ensure PCNA meets its budgeted wholesale and retail sales plans. Work closely with Finance on wholesale and cash forecasting activities regarding run rates.
• Provide weekly updated vessel schedule that communicate the latest information to Porsche Field Management, Executive Management and Porsche dealers.
• Ensure high levels of dealer and customer satisfaction through on-time and damage free deliveries and over dealer support.
• Assist the PCNA Finance Dept. with the management of vehicle inventories and the annual auditor physical inventory. Ensure a high level of consistency and process to assure accurate levels of inventory on an on-going basis.
• Coordinate contractual agreements with each of the following; ocean transport and their shipping agents, state & local port authorities, maritime and stevedoring entities, independent processors, and North American transport companies
• Assure up to date agreements are in place with all ocean transport providers, trucking providers, marine inspection providers, port processor providers, and any other logistics related partners utilized throughout the delivery and supply chain. Minimize risk and ensure proper levels of insurance are in place at each step.
• Responsible for concept development of key growth initiatives and pilot projects in relation to Porsches Future Strategy
• Responsible for refurbishment to demo company vehicles in service prior to sale, processing and PDI of company vehicles, foil installation, heavy damage repair, marine damage repair, preload damage repair and other types of repair from Marketing, PR, Area Marketing or company fleet damages while in use. Proper reporting and inter-company invoicing a high priority.
• Work with PAG Logistics to ensure minimal rail use in the U.S. and proper forecasting of shipments and receipt coming into the end of each fiscal year.
• Work with Vehicle Distribution, PAG Production, PAG Logistics, to make sure all new launch vehicles are received in time and prepared for new launches and specific training related events prior to new vehicles launches.
• Assist the Delivery Quality Manager, Initial & Port Quality, PCNA AfterSales, and PAG departments with data and reports as necessary. Provide for port actions as needed.
• Work very close with GQ (PAG Quality) on full directions and management of port related rework actions, third party supplier management, processor management, PAG invoicing and overall quality issues. Report quality issues to GQ as detected on a daily and monthly basis to ensure proper Porsche delivery quality to customers and dealers.
• Responsible for reporting marine damages and issues back to PAG Logistics, FR (PAG Insurance), and GQ (PAG Quality) to properly claim damages with ocean carriers and to continuously improve process and protective materials to reduce and ultimately eliminate transport damage to vehicles.
• Responsible for the proper usage of, awareness of, and compliance with Information Technology security policies at Porsche Cars North America. Make sure all third party supplier partners are also in compliance with any systems use and access policies through Porsche IT.
• Seeks to ensure proper retention of electronic documents, business confidential information, and actively demonstrates an understanding of the need to safeguard competitive information in both electronic and non-electronic formats.
• Responsible for daily/weekly/monthly invoice processing and management of roughly $20M in spend annually. Responsible for budget creation for all ports and Vehicle Logistics. Required to properly plan for future tools/equipment and proper levels of training in each port of entry.
• Operate department within annual and monthly budgetary guidelines.