Vehicle Logistics Analyst

Role Overview

• Oversee, manage, and drive best-in-class performance for a given US and/or Canadian Finished Vehicle assembly plant(s) relative to outbound logistics (finished vehicles).
• Meet and exceed NAVL Origin Operations objectives by facilitating and influencing improvement in the following areas:
• Lead day to day oversight of vehicle movement at US and/or Canada Origin Plants to ensure vehicles are shipping to plan.
• Meet or achieve KPI targets by collaborating and partnering with carriers along with 3rd party logistics (3PL) providers to maintain on time performance targets for Finished Vehicles deliveries.
• Establish effective communication with assigned plant(s) to resolve daily operational & logistical issues that affect deliveries and logistics performance.
• Manage inventory and vehicle flow along with identifying other opportunities to heavily reduce premium freight spend to ensure budget is achieved.
• Deliver on KPI target relative to vehicle aging and ensure inventory accuracy by establishing regular inventory reconciliation efforts.
• Ensure appropriate KPI’s are being met relative to Carrier performance.
• Oversee and manage performance of origin service provider(s) (OSP). Establish effective relationship with railroad partner(s) to deliver on necessary performance to achieve ETA and similar targets.
• Identify and investigate operational issues impacting the handling of vehicles in the network; understand when to escalate to leadership.
• Continue to refine critical KPI’s to understand if operations are performing to expected standard; monitor and leverage existing tracking metrics and tools to improve and monitor key KPI's.
• Drive improvements in the Transportation Network to reduce Time In Transit with the use of data from Freight Verify and any other relevant data sources.
• Lead the T-Force team (3PL) efforts, actions, and projects to reduce inventory dwell.
• Support Plant New Vehicle launches including vehicle mobility. Quote, submit and manage PO request(s) to OSP for launches, quality concerns and other misc. items.
• Support Customer request (Ford Pro, Lincoln, Ford Blue).
• Support non-standard business hour position needs due to plant production schedules and other production related variabilities (before/after standard weekday work hours, weekends, holidays, etc.).

Requirements

• Associate Degree, or equivalent related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education.
• Material Planning & Logistics (MP&L) experience( highly preferred)
• Plant Operations Understanding (highly preferred)
• Strong written and oral communication skills: you will be speaking or presenting to Senior Ford Leadership, regularly
• Ability to positively influence change
• Ability to handle complexity and multi-tasking
• Ability to work with cross-functional groups to resolve concerns
• Strong organizational skills required
• Ability to make decisions and work independently
• Proficiency in Excel (required), PowerPoint (required), , , Analytics/Data-mining mindset, , experience leveraging AI tools to enhance work productivity
• Ford system QLS, AVS, understanding preferred.

Tech Stack

• Assembly

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.