Key Responsibilities:
🔹 Strategic Planning
- Develop and lead logistics master planning for Shipping EV production, including inbound, outbound, and reverse logistics.
- Design logistics infrastructure: warehouses, battery-safe storage, charging logistics hubs, and cross-docking points.
- Forecast logistics demand based on EV production ramps, plant expansion, and product launches.
🔹 Network Design & Optimization
- Build an agile EV logistics network that meets just-in-time and just-in-sequence requirements.
- Map optimized transport routes for batteries, motors, and large components, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.
- Design reverse logistics flows for battery recycling, returns, and remanufacturing.
🔹 Implementation & Execution
- Lead the rollout of new logistics systems (WMS, TMS, SAP) and digitization of logistics operations using IoT, GPS, and digital twins.
- Collaborate with plant logistics, suppliers, and 3PLs to implement greenfield/brownfield logistics projects.
- Ensure battery transport compliance (e.g., UN38.3, ADR, DG transport).
🔹 Sustainability & Risk Management
- Implement sustainable logistics solutions: electric freight vehicles, route optimization, COâ‚‚ tracking.
- Identify and mitigate logistics risks in raw materials (e.g., lithium, cobalt), especially from cross-border suppliers.
- Lead logistics business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
🔹 Team & Stakeholder Management
- Manage cross-functional teams across planning, transport, warehouse, and logistics engineering.
- Engage with procurement, manufacturing engineering, R&D, and aftermarket teams.
Oversee relationships with logistics service providers, customs agents, and government authorities
