DTV Logistics Lead

Well Enterprises•Le Mars, IA

About The Position

This role is accountable for identifying and delivering opportunities to increase sales, reduce costs, and improve quality by viewing the entire value chain and connecting functional silos. The DTV Logistics Lead is responsible for Logistics initiatives within the company, developing project plans and leading cross-functional teams to ensure project execution and communication to senior management and/or key stakeholders. The focus is on the 3 E's: execution, exploration, and education within DTV.

Requirements

Viewing the entire value chain and connecting functional silos
Develops project plans
Leads a cross functional team
Ensure all elements of the projects are executed and communicated to senior management and/or key stakeholders
Consumer and customer research
Product development
Sourcing
Logistics
Form analysis
Vertical integration
Identifying project goals, timelines, KPIs process improvements, cost reductions and efficiency gains
Effectively convey project goals and objectives clearly and in a compelling manner
Understand financial position when conducting business planning
Ensures time and resources are aligned to budget
All associated costs are managed effectively
Develops solutions to course correct as necessary
Optimize product model as a chain
Educate the organization on learnings
Elevate team understanding of the science of logistics, current processes, current and future technologies, processes to test and scale, current cost drivers, and opportunities to optimize
Participate in exploration of design diagnostics process, teardowns
Leverage internal cross-functional partners to generate ideas
Bring strong, data driven solutions to the organization that add value and reduce cost
Leverage current experience, relationships and learnings to guide the Logistics organization
Develop and implement process step changes and integrations in partnership with current leadership

Responsibilities

Lead Logistics for the team to optimize our product and business model by understanding and protecting value, identifying and removing waste, ultimately delivering better business performance.
Accountable for Logistics leadership through consumer and customer research, product development, sourcing, logistics, form analysis, and vertical integration. Challenge every assumption and push the limits in every aspect of DTV.
Responsible for the development and implementation of critical initiatives and projects for DTV which include, identifying project goals, timelines, KPIs process improvements, cost reductions and efficiency gains. Effectively convey project goals and objectives clearly and in a compelling manner and escalates as needed to senior leadership.
Understand for financial position when conducting business planning. Ensures time and resources are aligned to budget and all associated costs are managed effectively. Develops solutions to course correct as necessary.
Learn together how the pieces of our product model interact and how to optimize them as a chain, versus optimizing them in a functional silo. Educate the organization what we learn, as we learn it and ongoing. Elevate team understanding of the science of logistics, current processes, current and future technologies, processes to test and scale, current cost drivers, and opportunities to optimize.
Effectively participate in exploration of design diagnostics process, teardowns and leverages internal cross-functional partners to generate ideas and bring strong, data driven solutions to the organization that add value and reduce cost.
Leverage current experience, relationships and learnings to guide the Logistics organization in their role in ongoing optimization of the whole organization, developing and implementing process step changes and integrations where identified in partnership with current leadership.