Director, Global Logistics

Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old-school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day one so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our goals.

Opportunity To Grow Your Career
There are plenty of jobs out there. The question is whether any of them will help you grow in your career. Will you be challenged by teammates to achieve your potential? Or are they roles that will ask you to do more of what you've already mastered? At Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.

At Fictiv, we’re building a company that is developing the operating system for sourcing custom mechanical parts. We already enjoy manufacturing and delivering highly complex, high quality parts for our Fortune 500 customers who are building the future with products like autonomous electric vehicles, surgical systems, and industrial robots. As we expand our services to our customer base, we are looking to expand our manufacturing operations into various global regions. As such, we are searching for an experienced and adept operations leader with exceptional knowledge in international logistics.

In your role as the Director of Global Logistics, you will leverage your leadership, managerial, supply chain, logistics, and compliance expertise as well as superb planning and communication skills to expand and drive excellence within our transportation service offerings. With an understanding of our business-level strategy, customer needs and Fictiv growth plans, you will own the development and implementation of the logistics services & network strategy for Fictiv. You will work extensively cross-functionally with leaders in Sales, Marketing, Product, IT, Finance, Sourcing, Program Management, and Quality in order to develop and hone the strategy for your team and ensure the proper integration of that strategy into our Platform and back-end business systems. Additionally, you will leverage your knowledge and network to establish strategic, high quality logistics partnerships and staff, manage and consistently develop an experienced group of international logistics professionals.

In this role, you will ultimately be responsible for the capabilities, performance, and cost competitiveness of our Logistics network to consistently deliver on-time to our customers needs while maintaining compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and minimizing cost overages.

This role will report into the Vice President of Core Operations.

Leadership
You set the tone and establish the standard for the Logistics function. You are responsible for working with functional leaders to ensure Fictiv’s core values, standard of excellence, and business ethics are upheld.
You provide the direction, leadership and communication necessary to achieve expected business results and operating plan goals for the logistics team.

Staffing & People Management
Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, and HR to hire, onboard, develop, performance manage, and, when necessary, exit employees.
Staff and Manage an overseas Center of Excellence composed of Logistics professionals to serve transportation, export and import needs across Fictiv’s global operating footprint.

Logistics Strategy & Management
Strategy Development and Implementation: Translate company strategy into a defined strategy for Fictiv’s logistics. Work closely with your team as well as cross functional leaders to translate Fictiv’s logistics strategy into roadmap that is supported across the organization (e.g. by Product, IT, Finance, etc). And own the successful execution against and implementation of that strategy.
Execution: Ensure operational excellence of your team and Fictiv’s logistics service providers. Track, manage, and report on KPIs that provide visibility to the performance of logistics and shed light on opportunities for continuous improvement.
Carrier Management: Create the playbook for and oversee the execution of the qualification, onboarding, and management of express consignment carriers, freight forwarders, and other logistics service providers to meet the needs of Fictiv’s customers.
Standardization: Ensure standardization (with allowance for regionalization, as necessary) of Fictiv’s logistics network design, strategy, and processes. Ultimately responsible for ensuring that Logistics policies, processes and work instructions are defined, understood, and executed against in all regions.

Compliance
Partner with Fictiv’s legal team and, when necessary, third party firms to ensure legal and trade compliance of global logistics operations.
Ensure proper import and export documentation record keeping.

-  B.S. in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Business or relevant experience. Masters or MBA a plus.
-  Min 10+ years of education plus work experience.
-  Minimum 7 years of people management experience. History of acting as a people-first leader and a motivator.
-  You are meticulous, detail-oriented, and have an inclination for documentation
-  You have unquestionable ethical standards.
-  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
-  Data driven, history of data-based decision making.
-  Experience with managing transportation, export and import operations across a global footprint. Experience exporting from China and India.
-  Extremely clear and low-context communication. Great verbal and written communication skills.
-  System-level thinker with a penchant for defining processes.
-  High level of agility. Can move from operational to tactical and back quickly.
-  Licensed US Customs Broker preferred but not required.
-  Applicants must be fully authorized to work in the U.S. and physically be in the U.S
-  Must be able to travel 15-30% of the time for work

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K plan
• Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
• Annual Education stipend
• Parental leave programs 
• Paid volunteer days
• Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
• And much, much more!

Fictiv is continuing to expand our remote US workforce. Recent hires include professionals located in:

Arizona (AZ), California (CA), District of Columbia, (DC), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Iowa (IA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), Nevada (NV), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wyoming (WY)

Interested in learning more?  We look forward to hearing from you soon.