$95,000 + bonus + super│Full-time at our premier 3,000sqm hub
Cars24 is Australia's largest online used car retailer — and we're transforming how vehicles move through the market, from sourcing to sale.
With a fully digital buying experience and national operations, we manage thousands of vehicles every month — and now we're looking for an experienced Logistics Manager to take charge of our end-to-end transport and distribution network.
In this pivotal role, you'll oversee how vehicles are moved, stored, and delivered between our facilities, partners, and customers. You'll lead a high-performing logistics team, drive efficiency, optimise costs, and ensure flawless execution across our supply chain.
About this role:
The role is responsible for managing all aspects of transportation routes, pickup and delivery, to meet internal and external customer requirements. This person will coordinate with internal functions/departments, offshore team, and third-party vendors to ensure vehicles are transported in the most efficient manner by optimising service and cost. It is also imperative that this role is proactive in identifying gaps and working towards solutions to prevent and address quality problems.
The right mindset and cultural fit are critical in our consumer obsessed, dynamic, entrepreneurial, data driven, collaborative start-up, with a huge ambition to transform how cars are sold in Australia.
Responsibilities:
* Ensuring that all purchased vehicles are collected and delivered safely and within agreed rates and delivery TATs on a daily basis
* Ensure that all sold vehicles are allocated and delivered safely and in a timely manner (to customer TAT) to the relevant interstate/regional hub
* Monitor vendor performance on a regular basis, and identify service performance gaps and address with direct manager and work towards improving performance
* Set up meeting cadence with vendors to review performance - analyse volumes, and service performance
* Direct management driver schedules: planning and adjusting daily/weekly runs, coordinating driver availability, load sequencing, and resolving issues in real time.
* Stock and inventory movement control: managing and maintaining accurate tracking of vehicles moving in and out of the site (receivals, dispatches, transfers) to ensure stock visibility and operational continuity.
* Oversee and refine inventory‑tracking and recording systems to ensure every vehicle's status is visible in real time; guarantee re‑ordering and re‑stocking occur at optimal points.
* Ensure all purchase, storage and distribution transactions are captured accurately; analyse KPIs, prepare weekly and monthly dashboards, and present insights to senior leadership.
* Direct day‑to‑day activities of warehouse, transport and offshore support staff; set clear goals, coach for high performance and foster a safety‑first, customer‑first culture.
* Proactive in seeking out new vendors and if approved by the direct manager, onboard them using the onboarding checklist
* Ensure all invoices are validated against actual moves and approve these in a timely manner for finance
* Analyse volumes and service performance and develop reports to showcase results weekly and monthly
* Prioritise issues that impact customer experience and work with the relevant stakeholders to find solutions
Requirements:
* Detail orientation - Being the person who sees the missing piece of the puzzle where others cannot
* Bachelor Degree in Management, Logistics & Supply Chain Management or equivalent courses with a focus/major in management and logistics
* At least one year of highly relevant experience in supply chain and logistics management
* Experience of working in a high volume, fast paced and dynamic environment
* Proven ability to analyse data and interpret the information effectively to continuously improve performance
* Able to work with Google applications (doc, sheet) and able to navigate Google sheets and documents and comfortable with formulas
* Actively support the team by having a positive "Customer 1st" approach and going above and beyond the call of duty to wow our customers
* Maintain a "solution mindset" - work with internal customers to identify opportunities for improvement
* Positive and enthusiastic team player - teamwork makes the dream work.
* Be prepared to undergo a police and background check
Benefits:
* Competitive salary package and exceptional employee benefits – $95,000 + bonus + super.
* Ground-up opportunity: build a big business from scratch and shape the strategic direction of the market, changing the way Australians buy cars
* Amazing people & network. You are not alone - we keep standards high for anyone who joins us here. We also have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage