Vice President, Operations - Americas
We One•Charlotte, NC
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Vice President, Terminal Operations - Americas will Lead regional operations across Americas, ensuring world‑class standards in safety, service reliability, productivity and cost‑to‑serve performance.
Requirements
- A strong track record of leading complex, multi‑site port or terminal operations at regional or enterprise level
- Proven experience driving operational transformation, performance improvement and standardization across diverse geographies
- Experience with leading using LEAN methodologies
- Proven experience with implementation of automation tools in Port operations
- Deep operational, commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance performance, safety and customer outcomes
- A collaborative leadership style, with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders and build high‑performing leadership teams
- A passion for safety, excellence and continuous improvement
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in The United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Responsibilities
- Be an ambassador for safety, always prioritize safety and help enhancing the safety culture across the company
- Lead all strategic decisions for Americas Ports and Terminals in close collaboration with all AMR leadership and GOE
- Define new strategic opportunities that enables growth and operating model that ties in with Regional and Global strategy
- Drive company results from both an operational and financial perspective working closely with the CFO, CEO and other key executive team members
- Set challenging and realistic goals for growth, performance and profitability
- Drive and develop standardization of the P&T business across the region
- Ensure LEAN practices are applied in the regional and BU teams
- Drive Total Cost of Ownership mentality for the engineering functions across the region
- Drive terminal handling equipment standardization for the Americas Region in close collaboration with the business, regional procurement and GOE
- Work with Regional teams to ensure good practice and governance is integrated into the business
- Support growth and integration, leading operational due diligence and post‑deal integration for acquisitions, expansions, greenfield and start‑up terminals to ensure rapid stabilization and adoption of DP World operating standards
- “Portfolio manage” the current portfolio including dealing with unperforming sites and assessing opportunities to monetize minority stakes or non-core assets in line with DP World strategy
- Set and govern the regional operations strategy, providing strong direction, oversight and accountability to terminal leadership teams
- Own the regional operations transformation agenda, driving automation, digitization and standardization in line with the Global Operations & Engineering (GOE) management system
- Establish and enforce operating standards, ensuring high levels of data integrity, performance transparency and disciplined operational routines
- Partner across the business with Commercial, Finance, HSSE, HR and Digital/IT to deliver customer commitments, optimize asset and capital strategies, and enable continuous improvement
- Support growth and integration, leading operational due diligence and post‑deal integration for acquisitions, expansions, greenfield and start‑up terminals to ensure rapid stabilization and adoption of DP World operating standards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
