We are passionate Toy Creators! We’ve been coming up with new ideas that bring kids and families together for over 40 years! This passion leads us to attack the day ahead like there is no tomorrow. Above all we are a Creative Company where positivity, fun and great ideas are at the core of who we are! This includes an impeccable quality and safety record with our Strottman and LUKi LAB products! We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced hands-on Director of Logistics in our Irvine office to work on both Strottman and LUKi Lab toy products.
The Director of Logistics will manage and optimize a global logistics network with multiple locations. This includes but is not limited to international transportation, customs regulations and government/broker liaison, domestic transportation, and all warehousing.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing, documenting, and executing a global comprehensive logistics and distribution strategic plan.
- Manages importation activities, including the selection of brokers, and ocean freight forwarders/carriers – negotiating rates, terms, and conditions for these functions.
- Provides logistics & warehousing budgets to internal team members.
- Manages all domestic transportation/warehousing activities, including the selection of warehouse sites, and carriers – negotiating rates, terms, and conditions for these functions.
- Monitors all regulatory and compliance measures ensuring compliance.
- Monitors and reports all inventory activity and makes recommendations for optimum inventory levels to ensure adequate stock on hand to handle demand.
- Interfaces with designated client counterpart (B2B) to establish accurate inventory reporting and ordering metrics and provide recommendations accordingly.
- Interfaces with the financial team to help minimize carrying cost of inventory while balancing client inventory requirements.
- Ecommerce Operations - with CFO identifies and negotiates with fulfilment warehouse/3PL’s to support growing retail business.Responsible for reporting Ecommerce inventory status across the entire supply chain – incoming and outgoing.
- Provides a daily inventory report to Head of Ecommerce and appropriate parties on ecommerce website (i.e Amazon) and recommends updates.
- Responsible for all Ecommerce fulfilment activities for Direct-to-Consumer orders.
- Provides support to Customer Service on issues related to Ecommerce shipping.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or a related field and 7 to 10 years general business experience in a distribution/logistics environment. Demonstrated management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage numerous projects. Experience in the Toy and Gaming industry a plus.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and verbal/written communications skills are required. Must be able to demonstrate strong people skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office with expertise in Excel; Experience with warehouse management systems (WMS).
- In-depth knowledge of key supply chain/logistics processes & current best practices.
