General Manager, Fleet (Arizona)

Gatik AI, Inc. • Phoenix, AZ, US • 2m ago

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world's first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.

The company's proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers' logistics operations.

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated and results-driven manager to oversee profit and loss (P&L) management, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction within a designated territory. This dynamic leader will direct all logistics and transportation activities in their region, ensuring on-time delivery, cost-efficiency, and adherence to all safety and compliance regulations. This is a pivotal position in driving growth and ensuring exceptional service delivery for our customers. The Fleet General Manager will work closely with the fleet operations, commercial and engineering teams to drive new customer deployments, deliver on customer commitments, test new autonomous vehicles and routes and build a world-class logistics operations and transportation network in their assigned region.

This role is onsite in Phoenix, AZ.

What you'll do

P&L Responsibility: Develop and manage regional budgets, forecasts, and financial targets, ensuring alignment with company financial goals. Analyze financial performance, identify trends, and implement corrective measures as needed.
Strategic Planning: Create and implement strategic plans to optimize transportation networks, streamline processes, improve asset utilization, and reduce operational costs. Define and execute against objectives and KPIs, positively reinforce and engage your team, and share in each other's success
Operational Excellence: Direct and oversee daily transportation and logistics operations, including route optimization, driver, vehicle and freight scheduling, and vehicle readiness and maintenance.
Team Leadership: Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of logistics professionals across the region, including fleet maintenance and repair and driver management. Set clear expectations, model Gatik's Core Values, provide regular feedback, and promote accountability. Develop and maintain positive and professional working relationships with customers, service vendors and Gatik staff.
Customer Relationship Management: Maintain strong relationships with customers, addressing service issues, supporting contract negotiation and activation, and pursuing growth opportunities. Be at the forefront of all customer interactions and fleet deployments.
Process Improvement: Evaluate current operational performance and provide a strategic plan for improvements. Continuously evaluate logistics processes, identify inefficiencies, and implement improvements to enhance scalable operational performance and customer satisfaction. Draft, deliver, maintain, audit, and continuously improve standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Safety and Compliance: Champion a safety-first culture within the organization, ensuring adherence to DOT, FMCSA, EPA, OSHA regulations. Drive a safety-first culture across all aspects of the operations.
Fleet Management: Lead day-to-day coordination and management of fleet operations activities for our fleet of Class 3-7 autonomous and non-autonomous box trucks. Develop and adhere to strict servicing and maintenance times to minimize downtime and maintain schedules, detailed records of vehicle maintenance and inspection. Manage team and platforms to keep ELD logs, regulatory and registration up-to-date, vehicle maintenance logs, and maintenance reminders up to date by performing regular audits. Maintains company and contractual assets (vehicles, facilities, inventories, tools, and equipment).
Functional Coordination: Partner effectively with headquarters internal functions including Human Resources, IT, Finance and Legal to ensure alignment with regional priorities and execution on strategy plans and objectives.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
7+ years of proven experience in transportation and logistics management, with a minimum of 5 years at a managerial level
Demonstrated success in full P&L ownership and achieving financial targets
Strong analytical and problem solving abilities in the automotive, transportation or logistics industry
Deep knowledge of relevant rules and regulations including but not limited to North American Out of Service Criteria, FMCSA, OSHA, HOS and electronic logs
Experience with scaling businesses and launching new fleet operations
Experience managing and developing high-performing teams
Proven ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
Able to remain calm and clear-headed in stressful situations
Willing to travel as necessary to support the customer and your team, as needed

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik's well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.

Notable News

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Auto Futures: Autonomous Trucking Group Gatik Secures Investment From NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS
Automotive News: Gatik foresees hundreds of self-driving trucks on road soon, and that's just the beginning
Forbes: Isuzu And Gatik Go All In To Scale Up Driverless Freight Services
Bloomberg: Autonomous Vehicle Startup Takes Off by Picking Off Easier Routes
Reuters: Driverless vehicles on limited routes bump along despite US robotaxi scrutiny

Taking care of our team

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment's sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

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