Director of Logistics and Freight

About the Company and Opportunity

Enthusiast Auto Holdings (EAH) is a highly successful e-commerce company in the automotive aftermarket parts industry. EAH operates ten enthusiast-focused websites (banners): ECS Tuning, Turner Motorsport, Pelican Parts, Rennline, Texas Speed & Performance, Z1 Motorsports, Z1 Off-Road, RCI Off-Road, Teqsport, and EVANNEX. EAH serves automotive enthusiast customers passionate about vehicle performance and appearance, providing parts, content, knowledge, and support. The company also serves a global network of specialty installer shops offering a "Do it For Me" option.

EAH’s leadership team has delivered strong organic growth with market-leading profitability and has completed multiple acquisitions, supported by Cortec Group, a premier private equity firm. Recent investments include a significant facility expansion at its primary distribution center and the implementation of enterprise-level ERP/WMS/OMS systems.

EAH is recruiting a Director of Logistics & Freight to lead the strategy, financial performance, systems, and execution of inbound and outbound freight operations across its portfolio of ten automotive enthusiast brands. This enterprise leadership position supports a high-volume, multi-site direct-to-consumer distribution network, with approximately 90% of outbound shipments moving through parcel carriers (FedEx, UPS, Amazon Shipping, USPS, DHL). The role requires occasional travel up to 10% to EAH locations, acquisitions, carrier facilities, suppliers, and logistics partners.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Freight & Parcel Strategy and Financial Performance
  • Develop and execute an enterprise freight and parcel strategy across all EAH brands and fulfillment locations.
  • Own the freight and parcel budget, forecast, savings pipeline, and performance against financial targets.
  • Monitor and improve visibility into outbound cost analytics.
  • Identify and implement sustainable cost-reduction opportunities while balancing delivery speed, capacity, reliability, customer experience, and network resiliency.
  • Develop business cases and implementation plans for new carriers, technologies, consolidation programs, service levels, and network changes.
  • Prepare and present clear, decision-oriented recommendations and performance updates to the Executive Leadership Team weekly.
• Outbound Parcel Leadership
  • Own parcel strategy, procurement, negotiations, contract governance, and carrier performance across FedEx, UPS, Amazon Shipping, USPS, DHL, regional carriers, and other final-mile providers.
  • Lead parcel RFPs, contract negotiations, renewals, benchmarking, proposal analysis, and implementation.
  • Analyze base rates, dimensional weight, zones, minimum charges, fuel, residential and delivery-area surcharges, peak fees, rebates, discounts, and service guarantees.
  • Model carrier proposals and general rate increases using EAH’s actual shipment characteristics and projected volumes (e.g., SIFTED or other analytical tools).
  • Develop routing, carrier-allocation, and service-selection strategies to optimize cost, speed, capacity, and reliability.
  • Establish carrier scorecards and lead regular business reviews covering cost, service, claims, billing accuracy, capacity, and corrective actions.
  • Oversee parcel invoice auditing, contract compliance, billing disputes, claims recovery, and accessorial-cost reduction.
  • Lead peak-season forecasting, carrier-capacity planning, contingency planning, and response to major service disruptions.
• Inbound and International Logistics
  • Develop and execute inbound transportation strategies from domestic and international suppliers to EAH distribution and manufacturing locations.
  • Optimize ocean, air, parcel, LTL, FTL, drayage, transload, and interfacility transportation.
  • Lead freight-forwarder, customs-broker, ocean, air, LTL, and truckload RFPs and negotiations.
  • Develop international freight-consolidation programs for suppliers in Asia, Europe, and other sourcing regions.
  • Improve container utilization, shipment consolidation, routing, mode selection, lead-time reliability, and inbound transportation cost per unit.
  • Partner with Purchasing, Planning, Operations, and Finance to incorporate transportation capacity, cost, and lead times into inventory and demand-planning decisions.
• Multi-Site Fulfillment, Systems, and Process Standardization
  • Develop, analyze, and lead the standardization of logistics systems, workflows, business rules, and operating processes for efficient multi-site fulfillment.
  • Assess current-state processes across legacy ERP, WMS, TMS, parcel-manifesting, and carrier platforms to identify gaps, manual work, variation, and automation opportunities.
  • Design standardized future-state processes for order routing, rate shopping, carrier selection, shipment execution, labeling, documentation, tracking, exception management, claims, freight auditing, and reporting.
  • Partner with Operations and Technology to enable inventory visibility, distributed order management, cross-site fulfillment, split-shipment decisions, and consistent customer delivery promises.
  • Establish enterprise standards while allowing site-specific requirements where operationally justified.
  • Develop governance, documentation, training, change-management, and audit processes to sustain common standards across the network.
  • Serve as the transportation business leader for the multi-year implementation of NetSuite and RF-SMART.
  • Help select, design, and implement a scalable transportation-management solution integrated with EAH’s ERP, WMS, parcel, carrier, visibility, audit, and financial-reporting platforms.
  • Ensure carrier rates, accessorials, routing rules, service levels, and billing requirements are accurately configured and consistently applied across all locations.
• Acquisition Integration and Network Expansion
  • Lead the transportation and logistics integration of acquired companies into the EAH network.
  • Assess each acquisition’s freight spend, carriers, contracts, systems, processes, service levels, compliance requirements, organizational capabilities, and customer commitments.
  • Develop and execute integration plans balancing speed, business continuity, customer experience, cost savings, and long-term standardization.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage EAH’s enterprise carrier agreements, transportation technologies, reporting capabilities, and operating processes.
  • Determine which acquired-company processes and systems should be retained temporarily, standardized immediately, or transitioned through the broader NetSuite, RF-SMART, TMS, and multi-site fulfillment roadmap.
  • Establish clear integration milestones, responsibilities, risks, and performance expectations.
  • Track and validate acquisition-related synergies, including carrier savings, shipment consolidation, service improvements, systems efficiencies, and network optimization.
  • Develop repeatable logistics diligence, Day 1, first-100-day, and long-term acquisition-integration playbooks.
• Compliance and Customer Experience
  • Provide enterprise governance for HTS classification, customs documentation, country-of-origin requirements, import compliance, and record retention.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable DOT, IATA, IMDG, carrier, and hazardous-material transportation requirements.
  • Oversee hazardous-material certifications, recurrent training, documentation, and shipping procedures.
  • Partner with Customer Experience, Operations, Technology, and e-commerce teams to improve tracking, delivery visibility, estimated-delivery accuracy, proactive exception communication, and claims resolution.
  • Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for late, lost, misrouted, and damaged shipments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive transportation, logistics, or supply-chain experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Deep experience managing high-volume parcel transportation in a DTC, e-commerce, retail, distribution, fulfillment, or third-party logistics environment.
• Demonstrated success leading parcel RFPs, national carrier negotiations, rate analysis, contract implementation, and carrier-performance management.
• Detailed understanding of parcel pricing, dimensional weight, zones, accessorials, fuel programs, minimum charges, peak surcharges, and service-level economics.
• Experience managing inbound domestic transportation and international freight from Europe, Asia, or other global sourcing markets.
• Experience designing and standardizing logistics processes across multiple distribution or fulfillment locations.
• Experience enabling multi-site fulfillment, including inventory visibility, order routing, distributed fulfillment, standardized carrier selection, and consistent shipment execution.
• Experience implementing or optimizing TMS, ERP, WMS, parcel-shipping, rate-shopping, freight-audit, or transportation-visibility platforms.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, data-visualization, and executive-presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of HTS classification, customs compliance, import requirements, and hazardous-material transportation.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence teams across a multi-site, multi-brand, or matrixed organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, finance, engineering, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Leadership Attributes and Core Values

• Accountability: Takes ownership of commitments, decisions, problems, and results through resolution. Establishes measurable expectations and follows through.
• Communication: Translates complex logistics, financial, and systems issues into clear actions and responsibilities.