Director, Strategic Capacity Development

Landstar • Jacksonville, FL

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About The Position

The Director of Strategic Capacity Development is responsible for identifying, establishing, and growing strategic relationships with top asset-based transportation providers to capture and secure capacity at competitive pricing levels. In this role you will develop and deploy best in-class relationship management strategies, establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and other metrics to facilitate enhanced carrier compliance practices while leading a team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university or equivalent experience
• Ten years’ experience in the transportation or logistics industry
• Seven years’ experience purchasing North American ground transportation and/or other logistics services
• Five years of leadership experience overseeing purchasing, transportation or logistics operations, or analytics function

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, or Logistics.
• Certified Supply Chain Professional or Certified Logistics Transportation Distribution (ASCM/APICS), or Certified Transportation Professional (NAPM/NITL)

Responsibilities

• Leadership responsibilities for a team of 1-5 to include hiring, training, scheduling work, and performance appraisals
• Develop and execute a strategic capacity plan for new and existing business throughout the Landstar network
• Support key business projects to ensure quality carrier capacity is secured through executed contracts
• Increase and strengthen capacity relationships to support current and new business
• Match business to capacity needs
• Drive team results in the execution of network bids to identify carriers and pricing that meet business requirements
• Mitigate risk by evaluating capacity qualifications to ensure they meet business requirements
• Provide market intelligence to Landstar by monitoring market conditions and rates
• Oversee Capacity Development Managers successful negotiation of rates and capacity commitments
• Establish and host carrier quarterly business reviews
• Provide development to team of Capacity Development Managers
• Oversee carrier performance management as tracked by the Capacity Development team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director