Global Logistics Director

Global Logistics Director

We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance. Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise.

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The Director of Logistics is responsible for establishing and leading OmniOns global logistics and transportation capability across North America, Latin America, and Asia, supporting a complex, multi-region operating footprint. This role will serve as a Logistics Center of Excellence (CoE), defining enterprise standards, policies, governance, and performance metrics that enable reliable execution, revenue predictability, and financial discipline.
Reporting to the SVP of Operations, this leader will oversee all modes of transportation (air, ocean, ground, parcel), third-party carriers, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and global trade compliance. The role requires a strategic, hands-on operator with deep transportation expertise, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to build scalable, globally integrated logistics processes that improve service reliability, cost visibility, and S&OP alignment.

Responsibilities

1. Global Transportation & Logistics Strategy

• Own OmniOns global transportation strategy across air, ocean, ground (LTL/FTL), parcel, and intermodal channels supporting operations in North America, Latin America, and Asia.
• Lead sourcing, qualification, and ongoing management of third-party carriers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers across regions.
• Negotiate transportation contracts, rates, and service-level agreements to optimize cost, service reliability, and capacity.
• Develop contingency, risk mitigation, and capacity strategies to address demand variability, geopolitical disruption, and trade volatility.

2. Logistics Center of Excellence (CoE) & Governance

• Establish and lead a global Logistics CoE, defining enterprise policies, standard operating procedures, and execution discipline while enabling effective regional execution.
• Implement KPI-driven performance management, including on-time delivery, freight spend, premium freight usage, cost leakage, claims, and compliance.
• Drive accountability through structured performance reviews with carriers and cross-functional partners.

3. Revenue Predictability & S&OP Integration

• Partner closely with Planning, Operations, Customer Service, and Supply Chain to align transportation execution with S&OP and S&OE processes.
• Improve shipment predictability, service reliability, and customer fulfillment performance through tighter planning and execution alignment.
• Reduce premium freight and expedite reliance by strengthening cross-functional coordination and execution discipline.

4. Financial Visibility & Cost Management

• Build end-to-end visibility into all logistics-related costs, including freight, accessorials, duties, brokerage, and premium freight.
• Partner with Finance to ensure logistics costs are accurately forecasted, tracked, recovered where applicable, and reported consistently.
• Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities, including lane rationalization, carrier mix optimization, mode shifts, and elimination of freight and logistics cost leakage.

5. Global Trade Compliance & Customs

• Provide leadership oversight for global trade compliance, including import/export regulations, customs brokerage, tariff and duty exposure (e.g., Section 301), and documentation requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and Operations to ensure compliant, cost-effective trade strategies aligned with OmniOns global footprint.
• Proactively assess and mitigate regulatory and tariff-related risk while supporting growth and customer commitments.

6. Systems, Tools & Data (TMS Enablement)

• Lead the deployment and ongoing optimization of Transportation Management Systems (TMS) as an enabler of end-to-end visibility, execution discipline, and performance management.
• Ensure high-quality data, analytics, and reporting to support decision-making, cost control, and service improvement.
• Partner with IT to drive system integration, continuous improvement, and scalable digital logistics capabilities.

7. Vendor & 3PL Management

• Build and maintain strong, performance-based relationships with logistics service providers, freight forwarders, and 3PL partners.
• Hold external partners accountable through data-driven metrics, reviews, and continuous improvement expectations.

Experience & Qualifications

Required

• 1015+ years of progressive logistics and transportation leadership experience in complex, global operating environments.
• Deep expertise across all transportation modes with demonstrated success managing global carrier networks.
• Proven ability to build enterprise standards, governance models, and scalable logistics capabilities.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including freight cost management, forecasting, and recovery.
• Demonstrated success leading through influence across planning, sourcing, operations, finance, and IT.

Preferred

• Experience leading global trade compliance, tariffs, and duty mitigation strategies.
• Experience integrating logistics execution into S&OP / IBP processes.
• Background in manufacturing, industrial, or technology-enabled supply chains.

About Us

We are a customer-first provider of innovative critical power solutions. Our product portfolio is designed for high reliability and performance, and our services team is a trusted partner with exceptional domain expertise backed by a proven track record.

Our customers rely on us to provide the latest industry insights and technology, to develop solutions needed to meet their evolving challenges.

We are looking for passionate and talented people who are interested in helping our customers realize the full potential of 5G, support expansive data center demands, and power Industry 4.0.

Our culture is one that we have fostered over many years; one of quality and operational excellence which is fueled and supported by our talented people, tools and processes, and our know how. Our customers value and recognize these attributes and because of it, have maintained deep and long-standing relationships with us.

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