Contract-Logistics Start-Up Command Leader — Automotive Aftermarket

The mandate

The 3PL committed five sites and a dealer-service improvement before facility readiness, inherited-stock condition and route capacity were proven together. The client’s incumbent network must exit on fixed dates, yet master data, labour accreditation and hazardous-parts controls remain incomplete. The implementation director was removed when a rehearsal counted system receipts but omitted physical quarantine and dealer backorder consequences.

The interim starts within ten days for sixteen months, holding launch authority through inventory migration, five site cutovers, stabilisation and permanent succession. The first sixty days reset the integrated plan and minimum launch states; waves begin only after physical rehearsal. Permanent recruitment starts after site three, with eight weeks of overlap and an unannounced regional-volume spike before handover.

Handover requires item-and-location truth, accepted facilities, trained labour, controlled dangerous goods, supplier inbound, transport capacity, dealer promise rules, rollback states and reconciled charging. Completion is demonstrated when the successor leads the fifth cutover and thirty stable days, containing a carrier loss and inventory variance without dealer stoppage, unsafe handling or interim intervention.

The leader may resequence waves, stop an unready cutover, reallocate labour and transport, quarantine disputed stock, invoke approved contingency sites, replace workstream leads and release MX$2.4 billion of authorised launch spend. Contract amendments, facility leases, permanent supplier awards, workforce dismissal and expenditure above delegation require steering-board approval. The client retains product disposition and dealer commercial decisions.

Network redesign beyond the awarded footprint, dealer pricing, parts engineering, long-term property strategy, product recall decisions and replacement of client enterprise systems are excluded. The interim cannot declare readiness from system transactions alone, commingle disputed inventory, weaken hazardous-parts rules, transfer backorders without customer visibility or preserve a milestone by hiding manual work.

Why this seat is open

The implementation leader left after the first rehearsal revealed that digital completion masked physical and customer dependencies. A temporary launch commander is required because incumbent exits and dealer seasons are fixed while the 3PL recruits a permanent regional implementation executive.

What you will own

• Rebuild the integrated launch plan across buildings, inventory, labour, systems, transport, dealers and contract evidence.
• Define minimum launch states, decision owners, evidence gates, rollback triggers and stabilisation exit criteria.
• Decide migration and site-wave sequencing against physical readiness, dealer harm and contingency capacity.
• Govern item, lot, condition and ownership reconciliation through every incumbent-to-3PL inventory handoff.
• Secure executable labour, inbound, route and dangerous-goods capacity before each regional transition.
• Command six rehearsals covering system loss, stock variance, carrier failure, labour shortage and demand spike.
• Transfer launch authority after successor-led final cutover, thirty stable days and independent adverse recovery from supplier no-show, labour shortfall and dealer-demand distortion.

Candidate qualifications

• Held executive contract-logistics start-up authority for a complex regional automotive aftermarket network.
• Delivered multi-site inventory and dealer cutovers against hard incumbent exit dates and seasonal demand.
• Reconciled physical stock, system receipt, ownership, condition and backorder evidence before launch acceptance.
• Managed hazardous parts, labour, facilities, transport and customer promises through live stabilisation.
• Exercised stop-launch authority despite contractual pressure while presenting credible bounded recovery alternatives.
• Handed a large 3PL implementation to permanent leadership through final wave and adverse simulation, including inventory variance, transport failure and customer-priority conflict.

Non-negotiables

• Available within ten days for Monterrey residence, five cutovers and six rehearsals.
• Direct multi-site 3PL start-up command is required; programme reporting alone is insufficient.
• Will disclose 3PLs, automakers, dealers, carriers, property firms, labour providers and technology vendors.
• Will not weaken dangerous-goods controls, commingle disputed stock or declare untested readiness.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a logistics launch where system readiness materially overstated physical readiness.
2. 49 words maximum. How did you exercise stop-launch authority against a fixed incumbent exit?
3. 49 words maximum. State your Monterrey availability and the largest start-up budget you controlled.