Senior Global Logistics Manager

The Role
Shape the future of logistics in a fast-evolving industry. This role offers the opportunity to design and execute strategies that reduce cost, improve service, and leverage cutting-edge technology to transform how parts and vehicles move worldwide.  The Senior Global Logistics Manager is responsible for leading a team of Supervisors/Leads and individual contributors for one of the key areas within Global Logistics.  Areas include parts logistics, vehicle logistics, and retail/service logistics. They will also be responsible for fostering employee development and training, driving performance management, and maintaining an efficient organizational structure. 

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):   

• Work across functions at GM to execute network priorities - balancing cost, service, and quality. 

• Act as subject matter expert to influence the development of business processes and IT systems. 

• Develop and analyze complex data to generate business cases designed to influence organizational change for resiliency, efficiency, and cost savings. 

• Lead supplier relationship development with applicable partners , third party service providers, rail, ports, etc. 

• Communicates within the function as well as other functions external affiliates, regulatory agencies

• Influences others within the organization to accept new concepts, practices and approaches

• Drive innovation and improvement in complex network, with a key focus on safety, quality, cost, and customer.   

• Actively engage in external communities and benchmarking activities to bring outside perspective to continuously mature organizational capability and improve our products, technology, and processes. 

• Create and foster an inclusive open culture where out-of-box thinking is encouraged.  This manager will provide thought leadership, foster innovation, facilitate communication, and inspire passion into the organization.  

• Hold accountability for staffing, communicating, training and development, in addition to, directing and prioritization of work, evaluating performance, and removing roadblocks

• Hire, train, develop, mentor, manage, and develop employees. Ensure there is right technical and leadership bench strength in the team. Cultivate a growth mindset. 

• Drive GM Behaviors and Competencies; actively champion change to support GM’s transformation; demonstrate high business acumen; strategically focus on addressing systemic issues; possess high learning agility, ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity, tendency to push the envelope and not accept status quo.  

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):  

• Bachelor's degree 

• 10+ years relevant experience in operations, procurement, logistics, or supply chain 

• Proven track record of directly leading teams with a minimum of 4-5 people, driving results, and personal accountability with oneself and team    

• Strategic Orientation, willingness to learn, adapt & be agile, comfort in challenging norms, dealing with ambiguity  

• Proven experience in international or cross-border logistics, multi-mode logistics, and/or EV infrastructure confirm 

• Strong leadership and communication skills 

• Ability to analyze data, develop actionable insights, and present concisely to all levels of leadership. 

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities supporting autonomous action 

• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to lead diverse/cross-functional teams as well as mentor, motivate and elicit work output from peers and other team members 

• Ability to travel 20% of the time Domestically + Internationally

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):  

• Master's degree in a related field 

• Developed skillset with respect to data management tools: Power BI, Excel, TMS, AI, etc. 

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc)