Director of Global Logistics

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Director of Global Logistics

HomeSafe Alliance is the single global household goods movement manager of over 300,000 Military Household Goods moves per year for USTRANSCOM and the U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense civilians, U.S. Coast Guard, and their families.

When you become part of our team at HomeSafe Alliance, your opportunities are endless. Through internal collaboration, and with our partners and customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the innovative solutions to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to Zero Harm and Sustainability Platform.  

Working at HomeSafe Alliance means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

The HomeSafe team is dedicated to providing fast, easy, and efficient relocation experiences.  More than 300,000 military and government households are relocated every year. Coordinating these transfers is a massive undertaking—and we’re proud to say that HomeSafe is positioned to improve the customers’ moving experience. As the GHC prime contractor and household goods moving service integrator, we provide earlier visibility into upcoming moves and greater network throughput capacity—ensuring household goods shipments are picked up and delivered on time. With cutting-edge technology and proven logistics expertise, we’re transforming the moving process by continuously evaluating, refining, and improving our tools and techniques. We’re dedicated to making sure that every move is better than the last.

POSITION SUMMARY:

HomeSafe has been established to be the premier household goods move management service provider for the U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense (DoD) civilians, and their families. Our team is dedicated to providing fast, easy, and efficient relocation experiences.  HomeSafe is a leader in the modernization and infusion of technology to improve the domestic and international relocation experience for all military personnel and their families. The Director of Global Logistics is responsible for the fulfillment plan function and shipment network design as well as optimization strategies, establishing a strong supply plan handoff to external partners and end-users. This role will be accountable for the implementation of end-to-end shipping operations planning world-wide, with particular focus on North America, Middle East, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

About the Role:

The Director of Global Logistics will report to the Vice President of Procurement and Supply Chain Management for Mission Technology Solutions and will be matrixed to the Chief Commercial Officer of HomeSafe, in addition to partnering with leadership in Finance, Operations, and Quality/Regulatory.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Director of Global Logistics is responsible for the fulfillment planning function and shipment network design and optimization strategy, establishing a strong supply plan handoff to external partners and end-users. This role will be accountable for the implementation of end-to-end shipping operations planning world-wide, with particular focus on North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. This role will report to the Vice President, of Procurement & Supply Chain and partner with leadership in Sales, Finance, Operations, and Quality/Regulatory to lead integrated planning for strategic supply chain planning of products.

The key responsibilities of the role will include, but are not limited to:

Oversee and manage global “end-to-end” shipment of personal household goods and delivery logistics planning and end-user supply chain network design and its continued support specific to Global household moves.

• Ensure that personal household goods are efficiently transported, and delivered to final destination on-time, including the management of importation/customs clearances process into jurisdictions outside the U.S.
• Develop strategic relationships and a robust network with commercial moving companies, manage performance, of integrated and specialist delivery networks responsible for the transport of personal household goods around the world.
• Lead complex supplier negotiations geared toward competitive prices, reduced cost, terms and conditions