Logistics Load Manager (Transportation)

Wal-Mart Transportation•Grove City, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for managing logistics and transportation operations. Key duties include communicating with stakeholders, maintaining quality and safety standards, monitoring productivity, dispatching drivers, resolving concerns, and implementing business plans. The role emphasizes respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence, aligning with Walmart's values and goals, including becoming a regenerative company.

Requirements

Associate's Degree in Business, Logistics, or related field OR 1 year Walmart Logistics experience OR 1 year transportation experience

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Office experience
Walmart Dispatch experience
Walmart Logistics Information Systems experience (e.g. Global Logistics Systems (GLS), Trailer Manifest System (TMS), Map Point, MapQuest, On Board Computer Systems, Visual Dispatch System (VDS))
Bachelors: Business
Bachelors: Logistics

Responsibilities

Communicate with or to individuals or groups verbally and/or in writing (e.g., customers, suppliers, associates).
Maintain quality and safety standards in the area of responsibility by ensuring associates are trained on Logistics and company policies, standards, and procedures, monitoring associate compliance to policies and procedures, and distributing and maintaining procedures and supporting documentation.
Monitor and manage productivity of the area of responsibility by preparing, reviewing, and/or analyzing business reports.
Dispatch drivers by identifying drivers needed to meet inbound and outbound load delivery schedules and following dispatch procedures and regulations (e.g., Drive Department of Transportation Hours of Service regulations).
Identify associate, customer, and/or supplier concerns by listening and consulting with others when needed to determine corrective action to take or make recommendations in order to resolve.
Implement the business plan for the area of responsibility by communicating goals, managing staffing and scheduling, assigning duties, and coordinating workloads in order to achieve facility goals (e.g., production, quality, safety).
Build high-performing teams, embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, and create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging.
Create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
Work collaboratively, build strong and trusting relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Attract and retain the best talent, empower and develop talent, and recognize others' contributions and accomplishments.
Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
Model the Walmart values to support and foster our culture.
Hold oneself and others accountable.
Support Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Act in a selfless manner and be consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Deliver results while putting the customer first.
Consider and adapt to how, where, and when customers shop and apply the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Make decisions based on data, insights, and analysis.
Balance short- and long-term priorities and consider our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
Display curiosity and a desire to learn.
Take calculated risks, demonstrate courage and resilience, and encourage learning from mistakes.
Drive continuous improvements, adopt and encourage the use of new technologies and skills, and support others through change.

Benefits

Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)