Associate Returnable Fleet Manager (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

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 Project 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 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.

- 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 returnable packaging operation process
- Identify common packaging supply chain failure modes, determine appropriate response and drive resolution in collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers
- Support resolution of escalated operations issues
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders such as sourcing and packaging engineering teams to define project priorities
- Support Tesla’s returnable packaging track and trace projects

- Major in Industrial engineering, supply chain or related field
- 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.
- Candidates are expected to uphold and actively promote sustainability principles in their daily work, operating in line with Tesla Global Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Policy and EMAS requirements, fostering a culture of continuous environmental improvement.