Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg marks a defining moment in Europe for Tesla’s mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Here we will launch revolutionary products on a massive scale, using extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency. Our employees will ensure that we achieve our goals, and we welcome you to help us write the next chapter of our success story.
The Material Planning group in Supply Chain is responsible for the reliable and efficient flow of all production materials to Tesla’s factories and Service locations. The returnable packaging team is managing packaging assets that are used to move parts between suppliers and Tesla factories. As Associate Manager returnable fleet, you will have end-to-end responsibility for returnable packaging operations. You will develop business cases to justify Capex investments, launch new packaging programs, and ensure operational success of the packaging fleet. This is a strategic supply chain role, interacting with suppliers, Finance, Material Planning, Logistics, Global Supply Management, Packaging Engineering, and Production Control in order to ensure returnable packaging programs are running at best efficiency for packaging cost optimization.
Flexibility and adaptability are key attributes needed for success in this role. Candidate should have strong analytical, project management and leadership skills to handle a variety of activities and complexities spanning the organization. Candidates should have a strong background in Supply Chain/logistics processes and related IT solutions and be willing to work at both a very detailed and strategic level.
- Major in Industrial engineering, supply chain, logistics or related field
- First expierience in people management is a plus
- 5+ years professional work experience in supply chain, manufacturing or other process critical operations in a fast paced environment
- Analytics savvy with strong proficiency in Excel and knowledge of SQL, Tableau and or other analytics tools
- Ability to effectively communicate and work with people from all levels of the organization both at Tesla as well as at suppliers. Should be comfortable handling difficult conversations
- Ability to evaluate and analyze data to enable operational decision-making or present clear recommendations to leadership
- Capability to prioritize activities to have the largest operational impact
- Lateral thinker with exceptional judgment – ability to develop process and drive schedules and also comfortable quickly changing direction when that is the best course of action.
- Passionate and relentless in following up on issues until a final resolution achieved and sustained process improvements are deployed and verified
- Demonstrated experience creating and improving processing and delivering results in an unstructured and fast-paced environment
- Experience with automotive supply chains and processes a significant plus
What we offer:
You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that are offered are a pension prog