Regional Transportation Manager
About The Position
This role supports transportation operations in terms of service, cost, health and safety, quality, food defense, sustainability, legal requirements, and policy compliance. The position provides team leadership and direction for the transportation organization. It implements the transportation strategy and effectively executes operations to ensure optimum logistics solutions while supporting various routes-to-market, and balancing service and cost. The role requires collaboration with internal and external (third-party logistics vendors) business partners to ensure effective management, timely solutions, and execution.
Requirements
- Experience setting and executing strategies in supply chain and/or logistics in a matrix organization
- Extensive understanding and expertise in the fields of transportation operations, third-party logistics management, transportation management software and/or transportation control tower functions
- Experience in concurrently managing a large number of third-party transportation suppliers with significant budgets
- Negotiation and influencing skills, able to communicate and build relationships effectively
- Knowledge of international transportation network design, customer service and collaboration
- Experience leading and motivating a high-performance team
- Financial budget planning, analysis and reporting skills
- Entrepreneurial approach with a focus on continuous improvement, digitalization and innovation
Responsibilities
- Deliver value by delivering on the strategy, ensuring optimization across all modes of transportation, balancing service and cost
- Be responsible for all safety, service, and cost key performance initiatives
- Have end-to-end responsibility to serve customers and work collaboratively with internal and external (third-party logistics vendors) business partners to ensure effective management, timely solutions and execution
- Develop transport solutions and undertake regular business reviews with vendors to review performance and support selection and negotiations
- Ensure the right product at the right quantity gets to the right place at the right time (damage free)
- Manage risk management, ensuring continuity of supply through demand forecasting, transportation capacity management and supplier relationships
- Lead the business toward best-in-class practices by innovating and championing continuous improvement by harnessing internal and external inputs
Benefits
- health insurance
- wellness and family support programs
- life and disability insurance
- retirement savings plans
- paid leave programs
- education related programs
- paid holidays
- vacation time
- Within Country Relocation support
- minimal support for candidates voluntarily moving internationally through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
