Apple

Americas Logistics DC Operations Manager

Apple$100K — $130K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Business, or related field
  • Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in logistics or operations management
  • Experience in leading high performing teams
  • Advanced degree (MS or MBA) preferred
  • Strong process improvement and program management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team to optimize operations in a North American network of 3PL-managed distribution centers
  • Drive initiatives focused on Customer Delight, Process Excellence, and Cost Leadership
  • Identify and eliminate systemic friction points in operations
  • Utilize data analytics to pinpoint opportunities and implement effective solutions
  • Manage relationships with 3PLs to enhance service delivery and scalability
  • Develop strategies to support operations during peak volume periods
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and environmental sustainability

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Focus on fostering high-performing teams
  • Emphasis on process excellence and operational efficiency
  • Dynamic and innovative company culture
Full Job Description
AMR Logistics Operations is a fast-moving and dynamic environment where flexibility and adaptability are key attributes required for success. The Distribution Center (DC) Operations manager leads a team that optimizes operations throughout the North American network of third party logistics provider (3PL) run DCs fulfilling every route to market. The ideal candidate blends strategic planning with tactical execution to drive key initiatives including: Customer Delight, Process Excellence (Precision), Cost Leadership, Environmental Sustainability, and Continuous Improvement. This leader must operate with a lean mindset, identifying systemic friction points, eliminating waste, and building scalable solutions that optimize the network.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced leader to join us! If you like solving challenging problems, exercising creativity, and building high performing teams we want to hear from you.

This position requires a deep understanding of Apple's DC network operations and the intersection with inbound and outbound transportation. The candidate must be able to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities that improve speed and customer satisfaction while minimizing costs. This requires expertise in industry best practices and data analytics to quantify the opportunities and implement solutions. You will need to manage a network that must scale to peak volumes that may or may not be planned and work with 3PLs to build capabilities to support this. Key Attributes for Success: -Analytically dominant: deeply comfortable in the data, AI models, surfacing insights, and driving decisions with speed and precision -Command presence: a leader who sets the tone, raises the bar, and holds people and partners accountable without hesitation -3PL fluency: knows how to manage, challenge, and elevate service providers to deliver exceptional, consistent outcomes -True team player and team builder: earns trust, fosters collaboration, develops talent, and lifts the performance of everyone around them -Resilient and adaptable: thrives in ambiguity, stays composed under pressure, and always finds a path forward -Customer obsessed: never loses sight of the end customer and uses that lens to drive every operational decision -Strategic and tactical: equally capable of thinking several steps ahead and rolling up their sleeves to solve today's problem

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Business, or related field required. A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in logistics, supply chain, or operations management with demonstrated growth in scope and leadership responsibility. People management experience with demonstrated success building high performing teams.

Advanced degree (MS or MBA) preferred Experience working with 3PL logistics providers preferred but not required. Ability to maintain poise and a positive attitude in a challenging, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Proven process improvement skills with natural curiosity and desire to understand how things work. Strong program management & leadership skills with an understanding of lean principles in operations management. Strong work ethic with a high degree of flexibility. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work cross-functionally and build relationships in a dynamic environment. Comfort with ambiguity.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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