Sr. Technical Program Manager, Packaging
Tesla
- Review Tesla’s returnable packaging requirements for existing and new programs
- Identify investment opportunities to optimize packaging cost
- Develop business cases and ROI models for packaging related investments and present to finance and leadership for approval
- Ensure optimal flow of returnable packaging containers through the supply chain to eliminate back-up expendable packaging cost
- Create, improve and deploy returnables packaging operation process
- Identify common packaging supply chain failure modes, determine appropriate response and drive resolution in collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders such as sourcing and packaging engineering teams to define project priorities
- Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply chain, related field, or equivalent
- At least 5+ years of 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
- 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. Flexibility and adaptability are key