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Director of Operations – Vancouver, BC
Director of Operations – Vancouver, BC
Continent: North America
Location: Vancouver, BC
Market: logistics
Industry: Contract Logistics
Salary: $170,000 – $180,000
Summary of the role:
The Director of Operations provides overall direction and guidance to the operational activities within a defined region to the Canadian organization. The Director of Operations maximizes growth and profitability while responsibly managing the resources of their region according to the company guidelines and polices as well as client expectations. Develops and implements strategic as well as tactical objectives to achieve financial and growth targets.
The business in question is one of the fastest growing and aggressive contract logistics businesses globally and this mindset spreads to Canada as they look to greater develop their already strong scope.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for supporting the organization’s overall strategy including growth and transformational initiatives. Develops regional strategies and tactics to align with enterprise targets. Ensures targets are achieved and local needs are met.
You will hold scope over three distribution centers and will be responsible for supporting the growth of new operations across Western Canada.
You will be responsible for developing annual budget for the region and measured against results achieved against targets.
It is your responsibility to ensure operational excellence throughout all areas of the region and services offered to our clients. Operational excellence is achieved through standardization of existing practices, risk assessment and achievement of key metrics.
You need to implement an operations strategy that identifies opportunities to improve cost control and margin improvement that also leads to organic growth.
It is important you have a high level understanding of facility management and have operated across complex operations in the past.
You will be expected to collaborate with the Engineering and Sales functions to plans and successfully executes start-up for new client engagement. Contributes as a key member to Sales and Marketing in winning key strategic accounts.
You will be holding management responsibility over a number of Senior Managers, General Managers and Operational Managers. It is important you hold a high level of management ability.
Qualifications
A post-secondary diploma or degree in Engineering, Business or Logistics or equivalent experience is required
5 years’ experience as a regional operations leader managing multiple locations.
A minimum of 10 years overall logistics management experience in operations.
