About the Role
Provide tactical direction and leadership to staff to ensure customer requirements are met while meeting Penske goals and objectives. Maintain a professional approach while supporting the solution enabling achievement of all contractual obligations. Create and foster a relationship with the customer's logistics manager to facilitate operational stability.
Responsibilities
- Ensure supervisors understand how their work relates to customer business objectives.
- Interview and hire associates up to supervisor level.
- Conduct exit interviews as needed.
- Build engagement by expressing pride in the group where goals are met.
- Recognize and reward associates for achievements.
- Develop direct reports through training and succession planning.
- Interact daily with local customers to understand existing and emerging needs.
- Utilize team to identify operational improvements in route optimization, carrier selection, backhauls, trailer loading, inventory accuracy, and warehouse operations.
- Collaborate with other Penske sites to share best practices and leverage resources/assets.
- Develop and execute annual financial and operating plans.
- Manage operations with integrity to meet or exceed Business Plan targets.
- Identify and respond to issues with operating metrics and P&L.
- Ensure timely and accurate customer billings and associate payroll.
- Verify payables and intercompany charges are valid and correct.
- Ensure all activities are accurately reflected in the P&L.
- Monitor and improve accident frequency.
- Ensure each associate understands their individual and group roles and responsibilities for a safe workplace.
- Proactively identify and correct unsafe conditions, work processes, and behaviors.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory agencies and company policies and procedures.
- Execute a process to track and record value delivered to the customer.
- Identify and seize profitable business opportunities.
- Utilize available metrics to monitor and maximize customer efficiencies and achieve cost savings.
- Monitor and improve fleet/equipment utilization and fuel efficiency.
- Contribute to equipment specification at time of start-up and renewal.
- Build a strong working relationship with local PTL district and other equipment vendors.
- Perform other projects and tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $97,800 - $132,300
Benefits
- Bonus eligible based on performance and location performance.
About the Company
- Penske Logistics engineers state-of-the-art transportation, warehousing and supply chain management solutions that deliver powerful business results for market-leading companies.
- With operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, Penske and its associates help businesses move forward by increasing visibility and driving down supply-chain costs.
- Visit Penske Logistics [https://www.penskelogistics.com/] to learn more.
