Director Of Logistics
Restaurant Depot
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage, train and monitor the performance of a team of direct reports (~15 individuals)
- Show an entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to constantly change and improve the way our business operates
- Willingness to collaborate both internally with other departments and externally with our stakeholders to create and constantly improve our practices
- Create processes and methods to gather, analyze, monitor and report on logistics data
- Oversee the analysis of lane and vendor data to identify problematic areas in our supply chain and implement cost effective and practical improvements
- Measure and report on performance against various targets/benchmarks for our activities
- Ability to identify root causes with supply chain issues – implement solutions and present results
- Coordinate and work with across functions to investigate and analyze how logistics costs flow through our organization
- Demonstrate cost saving initiatives to improve the operational and cost performance of our transportation models
- Gather and identify opportunities for process optimization
- Oversee the preparation of daily, weekly and monthly reports around key metrics
- Conceive of new ideas and projects to improve the performance of the department
- Supply Chain experience is advantageous but not a pre-requisite
- Experience as a Financial, Business, Data or Supply Chain Analyst or a similar role
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Excel
- BA/BS Degree required; Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting or equivalent preferred
- Experience managing direct reports, building SOPs, coordinating and communicating across different functions in the organization highly advantageous
- Experience in financial (or other quantitative) reporting including development and maintenance of reports
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills