The Vice President of Operations directs and manages the Transportation Branch operations, and assists the Senior Vice President in formulating and implementing organization policies, short- and long-term initiatives, and processes to optimize work flow.

• Manages all the CLG operations nationwide to include fulfillment, reverse, transit transload and transportation functions.
• Drive the annual budget process and ensure financial goals and key objectves are being met.
• Establish, review and monitor key indicators for success and cost control
• Recruit, hire and train new operational managers.
• Facilitates development, management and monitoring of divisional plans, and ensures branch goals and objectives are strategically aligned.
• Realign the management structure as needed to accommodate changes to the business.
• Develops and installs procedures and controls to promote communication and adequate information flow.
• Ensures that all divisional activities and operations are carried out in compliance with local, state and federal regulations and laws governing business operations
• Participate in marketing strategy meetings and maintains close contact with major business customers; participates in direct calls with customers
• Reviews market analyses to determine customer needs, volume potential, and identify growth markets.
• Represents Company at industry meetings to promote products/services
• Source new real estate to align with growth goals and etnry into new markets.
• Strong product/service development experience and domestic transportation background
• Possesses working knowledge of operating systems sufficient to direct efficiency and recommend system improvements—TMS, WMS, YMS.
• Directly manage 2-5 employees at the Director and/or Manager level

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university
• 10 – 15 years warehoure management or related experience, required.
  
  

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required

About Yusen Logistics (Americas)

As a part of the NYK Group, Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. performs a key role in keeping world trade moving by offering air and ocean freight forwarding, global warehousing, reverse logistics, intermodal and multimodal transportation, and supply chain solutions to some of the world’s largest industries. For more information, please visit our website at  www.yusen-logistics.com.

Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, disability, sexual and gender orientation, genetic information or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of the company’s employment practices including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.

This job description is intended to set forth the core functions required for this position and describe the general nature of the work performed by employees in this position.  It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.  Employees may be assigned additional responsibilities as necessary.  The Company reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of the Company’s business, competitive considerations or the work environment changes.