About the Role
This role sits at the heart of Apple's Americas logistics operations, owning strategic and tactical planning across distribution centers, transportation networks, and cross-functional delivery programs. The position transforms complex operational challenges into clear, measurable business impact with creativity, rigor, and a bias for action.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the seamless and efficient movement of products and materials across the Americas region.
- Owning logistics readiness planning and coordination across distribution centers and transportation networks.
- Developing strategies and program frameworks that enable informed, proactive decision-making.
- Improving service, cost, and delivery performance.
- Leading logistics readiness from strategy through execution.
- Driving cross-functional alignment across supply chain, operations, sales, and channel partners.
- Managing program budget, timelines, resources, and deliverables.
- Evaluating supply chain risks and implementing contingency plans to mitigate impact.
- Performing ad-hoc analytical problem solving during dynamic or unprecedented events.
- Partnering with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into actionable logistics plans.
- Identifying process improvement and change management opportunities across tools, workstreams, and systems.
- Driving solutions from conception through implementation.
- Building automation that improves team efficiency.
- Monitoring KPIs to identify improvement opportunities.
- Standardizing cadences to improve planning quality and speed.
- Facilitating cross-functional programs.
- Communicating findings in relatable terms that highlight business impact and guide strategic choices for senior leadership.
- Navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Serving as a trusted subject matter expert across the organization.
- Collaborating with 3PL partners, carriers, and internal stakeholders to optimize network performance.
- Driving strategic change in a fast-paced, matrixed organization.
- Diving deep into complex datasets to drive actionable decisions.
- Presenting assumptions, scenarios, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Driving decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Inspiring teams, fostering collaboration, and delivering measurable impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in logistics operations, supply chain, and program management, preferably in the technology industry.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous operational problems, build analytical models, and translate outputs into decisions.
- Strong knowledge of transportation and distribution processes.
- Experience managing complex logistics programs end-to-end.
- Fluency with analytical tools and BI platforms (Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent).
Skills
- Logistics operations
- Supply chain
- Program management
- Analytical judgment
- Structured problem-solving
- Strategic leadership
- Executive communication
- Leadership
- Automation
- Process improvement
- Continuous improvement
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- AI-assisted tools
- LLMs
- GenAI assistants
Location
- Americas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree (MS or MBA) preferred
About the Company
- In an environment where innovation and operational excellence thrive, we're seeking a highly organized, strategic thinker.
