Vice President, Distribution Center Operations

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description

The primary and ultimate responsibility of the VP Operations is to make branches work efficiently and profitably resulting in enhanced customer service (accurate, timely, and consistent). It champions initiatives focused on the identification, development and implementation of strategic initiatives with the responsibility for establishing Standard Operating Procedures. This position works under the direction of the Chairman and CEO & the President and COO, works in coordination with other members of the Senior Management Team and serves as a member of the Executive Management Team., conduct and continuously drive strategic planning processes specific to operation’s goals and determine key strategic priorities, achieve OPEX reduction at branches under the previous year’s numbers as a % to sales and cost per unit. Coach OPS team to achieve this goal, identify, develop and implement ATD’s strategic initiatives regarding the objectives of Warehouse management Systems, Transportation Management Systems and Mobile Delivery Solutions. direct the efforts of the Director of Logistics regarding the management of company assets and lease/maintenance agreements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Travel required: 50% of the time. Travel will be required with job demands.
• Displays initiative and commitment to meet goals
• Thorough understanding of P&L Statements and OPEX costing structures.
• Engages in cross-functional activities
• Dir. Of Logistics
• Uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives
• Open to change and new information
• Identify, develop and implement ATD’s strategic initiatives regarding the objectives of Warehouse management Systems, Transportation Management Systems and Mobile Delivery Solutions.
• CEO
• Builds and relies on the capacity of others.
• Direct the efforts of the Director of Logistics regarding the management of company assets and lease/maintenance agreements.
• Shares information and fosters exchange of ideas
• Creates agreements that achieve mutually acceptable solutions
• Adapts behaviors and methods to changing conditions
• Commits and decides in face of uncertainty
• CIO
• Warehouse cost per unit.
• Ops Mgrs.
• Resolves problems
• Delegates effectively
• Persuades others to align behavior with business goals
• Identifies and defines problems clearly
• Thorough understanding of supply chain, distribution, warehousing, transportation and inventory.
• Ensure warehouse processes are consistent, accurate and repeatable events: can’t finds, on-time dispatches, inventory integrity
• Seeks feedback from others and pursues self- development
• Masters new technical and business knowledge
• Uses imagination to develop new solutions to problems
• Maintains high level of productivity under pressure
• Demonstrated people skills including influencing skills, listening and the ability to communicate effectively to diverse groups.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Sr. VP Marketing & Procurement
• Experience managing in a high volume, low margin and high customer service distribution environment.
• Identifies common goals and objectives
• Warehouse Mgrs.
• Facilitates “win-win”
• Recognizes own strengths and weaknesses
• Champion the conversion of Acquisitions regarding analyzing the business model, identifying gaps to ATD and creating cross-over patches. Develop and execute conversion strategy.
• VP Strategic Development
• Vendors
• Grasps the essence of new information
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 150 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Sr. VP Sales
• Balances the requirements of change and continuity
• Enhance and improve customer service: on-time deliveries, order accuracy
• Encourages cooperation, trust, pride and team identity
• Balances job and personal pressures
• COO
• Knowledge of and committed to providing quality products and services
• Director of Ops
• Provide direction and leadership for the broad range of logistics functions of the Operations Department. Inclusive of parcel freight, general freight, territory studies, routings, expansions, conversions, consolidations and relocations. Real estate analysis.
• Enables others to act on their own
• Uses common sense and good judgment
• Anticipates impact of decisions
• Operates effectively within the different realms of the organization to promote benefit to organization and the people that work there
• Provides required resources to others to do the job
• Analyze, recommend large capital expenditure projects involving facility selection or facility upgrades such as racking, lighting, etc.
• Maintains focus, intensity and persistency in the face of competing interests and demands
• Takes a long term view of business challenges
• Works with others to achieve goals
• Champions new ideas in the face of opposition
• CFO
• Delivery Miles run year over year by location.
• Delivery cost per unit.
• Readily admits errors
• Maintains confidentiality
• RVPs
• Production per head
• Translates vision into actions and metrics
• Conduct and continuously drive strategic planning processes specific to operation’s goals and determine key strategic priorities.
• Achieve OPEX reduction at branches under the previous year’s numbers as a % to sales and cost per unit. Coach OPS team to achieve this goal.
• Makes sound, well informed and objective decisions
• Continually improves products and services while working within the basic organizational framework
• Works with minimal need for supervision
• Distribution Mgrs.
• Cost per unit.
• Willing to consider innovation approaches to solving challenges of the organization
• Develops networks and builds alliances
• Sets well defined and realistic personal goals
• Shows self-awareness into his/her own motivations and those of others
• Accurately assesses needs of clients, customers and partners
• Pursues mutually beneficial and cooperative activities
• Knows the organization’s vision, mission and culture
• Designs new methods where needed
• GMs
• Uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives
• Deals calmly and effectively in face of high demands
• Understands how the social, political, and technological systems work together