Regional Logistics Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide regional leadership and governance for North American import and export compliance, ensuring U.S., Mexico, and Canada operations adhere to all applicable trade and customs regulations.
• Maintain deep expertise in USMCA and Country of Origin (COO) requirements; conduct audits of plant activities to ensure full compliance.
• Lead and support resolution of ongoing tariff-related issues impacting U.S. and Mexico operations.
• Conduct periodic regional trade risk assessments, identify gaps, and drive corrective action plans across plants and shared services.
• Quantify, track, and communicate the financial impact of tariffs, duty spend, and mitigation actions to Finance and executive leadership.
• Partner with Purchasing and Finance to ensure accurate duty accruals, reconciliation, post-entry adjustments, and recovery opportunities (e.g., drawback, reconciliation filings).
• Provide governance and performance oversight of customs brokers, forwarders, and logistics service providers, including KPIs, audits, and escalation management.
• Own regional logistics and trade master data governance, including HTS codes, COO, FTA attributes, routing data, and supplier documentation.
• Provide regional leadership for logistics management, monitoring logistics supplier’s performance, optimizing the logistics network and driving transportation and freight cost reduction initiatives.
• Ensure achievement of freight and logistics budgets.
• Support plant PC&L teams in achieving key performance indicators through continuous improvement initiatives focused on logistics network and cost optimization.
• Support advanced PC&L activities for new product launches, including PFEP development, MOQ optimization, and support of production transfers.
• Support plant teams during internal and external audits (e.g., customer, MMOG, VDA, IATF, ISO).
• Support escalation issues esp. urgent shipment across plants, suppliers, and customers.
• Act as a key liaison between operations, corporate departments, and GPOPS.
• Provide coverage and backup support to plant and corporate PC&L teams as needed.
• Assist Director PC&L in budget planning and forecasting activities.
• Travel requirements – 50% - 75% (worse case)

Education / Experience / Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Materials Management, or related field; APICS preferred
• 5+ years experience in Supply Chain or Customs and Trade Compliance (automotive manufacturing)
• Experience with North American trade compliance: import/export regulations, customs requirements, trade documentation
• Working knowledge of USMCA and Country of Origin (COO) compliance, audits, and tariff management
• Experience supporting tariff mitigation and customs issues (U.S. and Mexico preferred)
• SAP experience preferred (PC&L, MM, IM/WM, Repetitive Manufacturing, Shipping/Receiving)
• Financial and business acumen, including logistics and duty cost awareness
• Knowledge of automotive customer systems and requirements
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and time-management skills
• Experience in logistics, freight management, and transportation optimization
• Knowledge and application of Lean manufacturing principles

Language Ability

• Must be able to effectively communicate with customers, suppliers, plant operations, local and global teams
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and processes, procedures, manuals, work instructions, etc.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from various teams, groups, managers, Executive Team, team members, customers and suppliers.

Math Ability

• Strong math skills are required
• Strong financial and presentation skills is preferred

Reasoning Ability

• Must be able to analyze problems logically and develop plans for resolution
• Must be able to prioritize tasks and be organized in approach to planning
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Strong analytical problem solving skills to determine root cause of the issues
• Proposes and oversees implementation of corrective actions

Computer Skills

• Proficient in MS Office software
• Proficient in SAP is preferrable