Job Description

The position has management responsibility for a determined number of direct reports with the intent of increasing team member competencies and strengths, effectively utilizing their bandwidth and workload, training team members to increase their capabilities, and driving continued success and improvement. The Manager is responsible for Consulting Team Member development and the continued modernization of Bastian Solution’s Consulting Practice. The Manager assists the Director in executing strategic business goals, ensures Consulting Deliverables are fully vetted and risks mitigated, and confirms the Consulting team is fully engaged with downstream Solutions Delivery Implementation projects. He or she sponsors both Paid Consulting Studies and System support opportunities with the goal of overseeing Solution Designs that ensure customer satisfaction, reduces risk in key design criteria, and that the best practices/SOPs are followed for timely consulting deliverable completion.

Job Functions:

• Strategically develop the Consulting practice
• Recruit, train, coach, and motivate the Consultants under his or her leadership
• Ensure Consulting supports the overall company goals (Safety, Employee, Customer, Financial)
• Sponsor Paid Consulting projects and System Sales Opportunities – ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-quality delivery, resulting in highly impressed clients, repeat business, and customer reference sites
• Provide supplemental Project Support to projects that are behind schedule, budget, and/or quality expectations
• Recruiting of new talent (interviewing, convincing the strongest candidates to join Toyota, improving our Recruiting standards)
• Career development of the assigned reports as well as the overall Consulting team – ensuring high team satisfaction under his or her leadership and a high retention rate
• Developing and supervising internal training. Drive onboarding of newly hired consultants and supervise continued training for seasoned consultants.
• Ensure strong and balanced project staffing that keeps the team utilization high and projects within schedule
• Performing all administrative functions as needed

Travel Requirements:

• 30% overnight travel (Travel expenses paid by Toyota Automated Logistics)

Required Qualifications and Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering (or related degree) with 7+ years of relevant practical business experience. Master’s degree is preferred
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Motivates and unleashes the true potential of Team Members
• Strategic thinking and strong drive for constant improvement
• Ability to Challenge Status-quo and drive change across the organization
• Excellent technical problem-solving capability
• Excellent customer relations during complex projects
• Strong capability to hold difficult conversations when needed with employees and customers
• Proactive in addressing conflicts. Always stays professional through conflicts
• Must be eligible to work in the USA long term without sponsorship.
• Employees must follow all information security policies, protect confidential data, complete required training, and report any suspected security incidents to support our information security controls.

About Toyota Automated Logistics:

Toyota Automated Logistics is your global partner for integrated warehouse automation. Our team combines the talents of Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande’s warehousing business and viastore under one brand to deliver scalable systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services.

In addition to exciting work at a growing company, we offer the following benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match
• Vacation / Holiday Pay
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Associations, Conferences and Subscriptions
• Company Meetings & Events

Toyota Automated Logistics does not work with outside recruiting agencies. No solicitation phone calls please.