Director of Logistics, Freight & Network Optimization

Alpine Home Air Products

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About The Position

Alpine Home Air is seeking a Director of Logistics, Freight & Network Optimization to own the economics, performance, and risk of our inbound and outbound freight network.
This role exists because freight is no longer a transactional function — it is a decision system that directly impacts margins, damage rates, customer experience, and operational behavior across the company.
This is a senior, analytical leadership role responsible for designing, optimizing, and governing the freight system, not merely managing shipments. The mandate is to turn logistics from a cost center into a controlled, measurable, continuously improving system.

Requirements

• 7+ years in logistics, freight, or network optimization leadership
• Proven ownership of multi-million-dollar freight spend
• Strong analytical capability; comfortable working with complex data
• Experience partnering with custom ERP systems and BI tools (PowerBI or equivalent)
• Systems thinker who understands incentives, contracts, and behavior
• Calm, high-agency leader able to hold authority without escalation or drama
• Pragmatic curiosity about AI and automation (applied, not theoretical)

Responsibilities

• Own all inbound and outbound freight spend across LTL, TL, parcel, and hybrid modes
• Design carrier strategy to balance cost, reliability, and damage risk
• Lead rate negotiations, contract structuring, and performance enforcement
• Eliminate hidden cost drivers including accessorials, reclasses, and inefficiencies
• Optimize mode selection based on shipment characteristics, cost, and service requirements
• Identify opportunities to consolidate, re-route, or redesign freight flows
• Evaluate carrier mix and network design to reduce variance and risk
• Own freight-related damage economics end-to-end
• Design and enforce claims processes that recover value consistently
• Identify root causes of damage in partnership with warehouse execution teams
• Drive packaging, palletization, and handling standards to reduce loss
• Define freight KPIs that reflect true cost, performance, and risk
• Partner with analytics to build PowerBI dashboards for freight visibility
• Identify where metrics are masking real cost drivers and correct them
• Ensure freight data integrity across ERP and carrier systems
• Develop deep working understanding of Alpine’s custom ERP freight logic
• Ensure freight processes are correctly represented in system workflows
• Close gaps between system assumptions and real-world carrier behavior
• Identify and implement AI-assisted workflows for: Rate anomaly detection Carrier performance scoring Damage and claims pattern analysis Shipment risk prediction
• Translate freight realities into inputs automation systems can reliably act on
• Partner closely with Warehouse Systems & Execution leadership on: Packaging standards Pallet configurations Shipment readiness and handling practices
• Work with Finance to align freight economics with margin and pricing strategy

Benefits

• Group health insurance plus health savings account
• 401k
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• life insurance
• short-term disability and more
• Paid educational and professional development training

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed