Manager Solutions Design Egineering

Ryder Supply Chain Solutions • Vaughan, ON

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager Solutions Design is responsible to support the growth of our Supply Chain Solutions & Dedicated Transportation Solution offerings by developing, designing and winning new business. This role involves designing solutions that deliver financial value to customers, demonstrating an understanding of their business, and providing feasible designs aligned with their needs. The Manager will help shape win plans, provide sustainable designs aligned with Ryder's capabilities, and author compelling proposals. Additionally, the role supports awarded business through the startup process, ensuring successful transition of design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources via the Customer Due Diligence process. The Manager Solutions Design is aligned by industry verticals or design discipline and manages new business pursuit teams and opportunities. They may manage a subset of pursuit team members or act as an independent team member, leading pursuits from start to finish through various stages and successful transition during startup. Key activities include managing a subset of SD team members or acting as an independent contributor specializing in select design disciplines (transportation, warehousing, or network design) or industry solutions. They will mentor and advise SD team members on modeling and design techniques, act as a solution design specialist, and effectively communicate designs to internal stakeholders and clients using advanced analytical techniques. Essential functions include Project Management of cross-functional teams, creating and managing project milestones, leading team calls, managing deliverables, and maintaining communication. This role involves meeting with customers and bid response teams, supporting technical review presentations and design validation meetings, and calculating labor, equipment, facility, and expense requirements. The Manager will develop process flows, concepts of operations, and value propositions, and collaborate with IT on system concepts. They will coordinate with Pricing for cost and pricing models and author compelling customer stories for proposals, collaborating with the Sales Lead on win strategies, competitive analysis, and stakeholder analysis. Additional responsibilities include data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development, defining scenarios to model, developing optimization scenarios, improving engineering tools and methodologies, leading consulting projects, and validating/modifying deployed processes during implementation follow-up.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or Industrial Engineering
• Eight (8) years or more in the Transportation industry(e.g., Truckload, Multi-stop TL, LTL, Intermodal, Bulk, Rail, or Parcel services) or in the Warehousing and/or Manufacturing industry (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Warehouse Operations, Operations) required
• Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint. expert required
• Knowledgeable of visualization (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programming advanced required
• Knowledge of effective metrics programs and design networks that are sustainable and measurable expert required
• Transportation Design: Extensive knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks. Required knowledge of all available equipment types such as; dry van, temperature control, flat bed, other specialized equipment.
• Transportation Design Tools ie; JDA, Appian, Network Design Tools ie; Llamasoft, Transportation Management Systems ie; JDA, OTM, , Mapping Software ie; Tableau. expert required
• Warehouse Design: Extensive knowledge of Warehouse Management operations, data analytics, Industrial Engineering, warehouse types (ambient, temp control, warehouse layout/ design and Lean methods.
• Required knowledge of material handling solutions and automation types such as: powered industrial truck (PIT) applications; racking and other storage solution designs, packaging equipment; conveyor and sortation equipment; and other automation solutions (e.g. AS/RS).
• Warehouse Design Tools e.g.: CAD (e.g. AutoCAD); slotting (e.g. Slot3D); Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.g. MOST); simulation software and application; Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Manhattan Scale); and Labor Mgt. Systems.
• Network Design Tools (e.g., Llamasoft) and Data Analytics Software (e.g., Tableau) a plus . expert required
• Superb data organization and cleansing skills
• Exhibit advanced skills and concepts using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks
• Ability to influence the project teams by using facts, statistics, and analytics
• Comprehend complex supply chain and transportation solutions and segment design processes into manageable elements and process steps
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex designs, concepts, and regulations into terms readily understood
• Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity in simulation tools, transportation & warehouse management systems, ERPs, Automation, MHE, Visibility Tools, and industry leading technologies(preferred)

Responsibilities

• Designing solutions that deliver financial value to our Customers
• Demonstrating an understanding of our Customer's business
• Providing feasible designs that are aligned with our Customer's needs
• Helping the pursuit team with shaping wins plans consistent with our solution design
• Providing sustainable designs that are aligned with Ryder's operational & technical capabilities
• Writing and delivering a compelling proposal that influences the customer decision to select Ryder
• Support awarded business throughout the startup process, successfully transitioning design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources through the Customer Due Diligence process
• Manage a sub-set of SD team members or act an independent contributor, specializing in select design discipline (transportation, warehousing or network design) or industry solutions (e.g., packaging, inbound to manufacturing, integrated transportation, temp controlled)
• Mentor & advise a sub-set of SD team members on modeling and design techniques to create, re-design, or optimize logistics networks
• Act as a specific solution design specialist, usually more (but not required) than one discipline
• Effectively communicate the design and solution to internal stake holders & the client
• Use advance analytical techniques and concepts to understand the business
• Project Management - managing cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of solution development with win strategy.
• Create and manage project milestones, schedule and lead team calls, manage team deliverables, and maintain effective communication across all team members as the solution develops
• Meet frequently with customers and cross-functional bid response team.
• Support technical review presentations and design validation meetings
• Calculating labor, equipment, facility and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions.
• Develop process flows, concept of operations and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and work with IT to develop concept of systems.
• Coordinate with Pricing and other functions to develop cost and pricing models as well as relevant assumptions
• Develop Proposal - write compelling customer stories that clearly articulated value propositions, Ryder's differentiated value, and proposed solution.
• The Solution Design Manager is responsible for authoring content and taking ownership for developing the final proposal in collaboration with the Sales Lead.
• Collaborate with Sales leader to develop win strategy (e.g. research industry and customer to understand pain points and Ryder solutions to alleviate, understand competitive landscape to position Ryder to win, stakeholder analysis)
• Data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development & defining scenarios to model
• Develop optimizations scenarios and strategies that are aligned with objectives
• Develop and improve engineering tools and methodologies to ensure industry best practices
• Lead consulting projects that involve understanding customers’ pain-points developing and presenting solutions
• Implementation follow-up, which requires engineer to validate and modify deployed process to ensure that it matches plan
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• 10 days of Paid Time Off upon hire
• Excellent benefits package after 30 days (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Benefits including Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• Employee discount of 15% on Ryder stock

What This Job Offers

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