Program Manager, Returnables

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 Program Manager, 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 returnables 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 be willing to work at both a very detailed and strategic level.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Supply Chain/logistics processes and related IT solution

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, experience and exceptional ability, or equivalent
• At least 3 - 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
• Ability to evaluate and analyze data to enable operational decision-making or present clear recommendations to leadership
• 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