Regional Parts Distribution Center Manager
About The Position
The Parts Distribution Center (PDC) Manager is the senior site leader responsible for customer service excellence, last-mile delivery performance, labor relations, and long-range site strategy, utilizing both embedded and emerging automated technologies within the PDC. This role is accountable for near-term execution while also developing and driving a rolling five-year strategy that aligns with network growth, customer expectations, technological advancements, workforce capabilities, and capital planning. The PDC Manager is expected to possess enterprise-level business acumen in supply chain distribution and industrial engineering, translating strategy, economics, and engineering tradeoffs into sustained operational performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Labor, Communications, Business, Marketing, or other related degree.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in managerial/supervisory experience in a distribution warehouse environment.
- Knowledge of Continuous Improvement systems and Lean Manufacturing experience.
- Experience managing day to day operations within a union environment.
- Proven ability to develop and execute a detailed project plan.
- Ability to develop analysis to improve on current standard processes.
- Driven to seek solutions to improved performances.
- Possess a high sense of urgency to the customer and plant KPI's.
- Must be willing to work extended weekday hours and weekends across day/evening shifts, as required.
- Must be willing to relocate.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a rolling five-year PDC strategy aligned to network demand, dealer growth, service expectations, and cost targets.
- Define the site roadmap for capacity expansion, layout evolution, workforce capability, digital enablement, and service reliability.
- Identify and sponsor multi-year initiatives focused on customer experience, last-mile performance, labor stability, automation, and productivity.
- Build and defend capital and operating business cases supporting long-term investments.
- Translate strategy into annual operating plans, KPI trajectories, and execution priorities.
- Manage the PDC as a profit-impacting node within a broader distribution network.
- Apply industrial engineering principles (capacity modeling, flow optimization, labor standards, layout strategy).
- Evaluate service-to-cost tradeoffs, ROI, payback, and risk for capital and technology investments.
- Communicate complex operational and engineering concepts at the executive level.
- Customer service ownership and senior dealer escalation leadership.
- Last-mile delivery and carrier performance accountability.
- Labor relations leadership, grievance handling, and negotiations.
- Strategic planning, financial stewardship, and people leadership.
- AI-enabled decision leadership, analytics governance, and technology adoption oversight.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
