Senior Logistics Manager

Ecolab is hiring for a Sr Logistics Manager to join our Global Planning & Logistics COE. This Logistics leadership role establishes, manages, and executes a portfolio of strategic P&L initiatives to continuously enhance safety, service, and savings Globally with a strong focus in Logistics Warehousing & Transportation. This leader plays a key role in the supply chain organization by working with all functional areas and fostering strong collaborative relationships with ETS, Planning, Customer Service, Finance and Logistics operations leaders. The successful candidate must be a self-directed achiever, a strong leader, and an excellent cross-functional collaborator.

What You Will Do:

This role manages and leads Global Logistics initiatives of high complexity. By leveraging internal & external benchmarks, this role provides leadership direction, functional best practices, and process improvements for existing operations. Supports new & emerging business growth and provides analysis/expertise necessary to formulate standard practices/procedures & a digital future.

• Leads and owns strategic implementation, tracking of the project pipeline, driving the organization to continuously improve through eliminating losses.

• Supports development of organizational culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and results.

• Lead Warehousing & Transportation Global Communities of Practice

• Participate in key user change request development for Logistics solutions through completion and implementation with ETS (IT) and other support teams

• Seeks out and quantifies process-improvement opportunities to develop data driven solutions. Assesses/identifies risk to fulfill the defined objectives.

• Assesses/critiques resources for projects. Participates in project selection process, determines benefits, recommends resources/team members.

• Models operational excellence, visibly demonstrating leadership/change management behaviors.

• Networks with internal/external resources to bring best practices to the projects/organization.

Position Details:

• Location: This position has a preference to be in North America (St. Paul, MN)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• 10 years' experience in transportation, logistics, warehousing, or other related operational roles

• Global EBS/SAP understanding and experience in Implementations

• Ability to collect and analyze financial and operational data.

• Proven ability to drive change and standardize process and procedure.

• Proven ability to develop and maintain a robust performance culture including the use of KPIs to drive continuous improvement.

• Ability to travel a must.

• Strong written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or related field

• MBA or advanced degree

• Black Belt Certification, PMP Certification

• Management of systems implementation for WMS/LMS/TMS

• Spanish conversational skills

• French conversational skills

Benefits

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