Tasks&Responsibilities:

Strategy, partner selection, and management:

• Define expectations, evaluate existing transportation model, seek partners, evaluate fit to expectations, evaluate, and negotiate pricing, estimate financial impacts, recommend and select partners
• Identify synergies across lanes, modes, to improve costs, service levels
• Define partner onboarding/implementation plans and manage those processes
• Work collaboratively across functions within organization to make the best service/cost decisions holistically
• Build and maintain a culture of productivity and efficiency grounded in KPIs
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment ensuring policies and procedures are followed

Financial management/reporting:

• Drive continuous improvement in expense reporting, allocations, and accruals partnership with accounting
• Monitor invoice flow and payment cycles
• Develop and implement budgeting tools tied to forecasted business volumes and mode/ origin/destination patterns
• Develop and publish periodic reporting that identifies and communicates cost drivers vs budget

Service levels:

• Define, measure, and improve appropriate service level KPIs such as on-time shipping and delivery, transit times, container roll rates and yard dwell, etc
• Transparently share results and areas of success / opportunity with stakeholders
• Identify, justify, and invest in innovations to drive improvements

Technology roadmaps:

• Drive capability roadmaps for multiple transportation technology platforms including inbound supply chain visibility, store delivery visibility, and carrier manifesting

Carrier operations:

• Ensure carrier capacity against forecasts
• Align day-to-day operations with the needs of the business

Team development:

• Effectively manage a diverse team of associates across multiple locations
• Collaborate across functions to avoid silo’s thinking
• Participate in initiatives and proactively provide guidance across functions on issues related to transportation
• Demonstrate positive leadership principles including ethics, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and analytical / fact-based decision-making

Candidate profile:

Ideal candidate will have strong ability to manage change& processes improvements and people and who would be able to influence and challenge existing Transportation working models and practice

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, or related fields

• 4+ years managing or operating in a Transportation/Supply Chain role
• Familiarity with designing / selecting / building / implementing new technologies
• Deep experience driving innovations across multiple relevant modes
• Numerous examples of demonstrated collaborative decision-making
• Thorough knowledge of most or all of the relevant transportation modes and service and access to a professional network to benchmark and understand “best practice”.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including data analytics via advanced Excel or MS Access tools