Sr. Transportation Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Frederick, MD

49d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Discover Impactful Work: As the transportation Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for leading the Logistics and International Transportation and Trade support teams to ensure the efficient, timely and cost-effective movement of goods and products worldwide. A day in the Life: Lead our Americas transportation and international trade team to ensure development and process enhancement. Develop reasonable logistics plans and initiate practical process improvements (PPI) supporting the customer and cost savings. Responsible for the international transportation trade documentation and shipping compliance. Improve standards for logistics cost accounting, adhering to financial budgets, and maintaining cost controls. Connect with internal customers accurately by responding to customer needs, coordinate and tackle any problems that may arise during logistics services. Develop departmental work plans, annual goals, and human resources plans, and lead team to complete work tasks. Optimize the company's logistics system to improve logistics efficiency, shorten transport cycles, etc. Manages and leads operational aspects of our transportation business

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years or more of working experience in the logistics industry, with international logistics experience preferred.
• 5+ years experience Sr Management experience - Managers as direct reports
• Familiar with logistics operation processes, storage management, etc., and basic knowledge of supply chain management and logistics system optimization.
• Strong business sensitivity, excellent logical thinking, data analysis ability, and team collaboration awareness.
• Excellent communication, coordination and problem-solving abilities, as well as outstanding interpersonal relationship management skills.
• Proven experience of working collaboratively in global multi-function teams and ability to cross between roles effectively.
• Ability to assess situations to figure out importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization and the customer.
• Requires ability to develop strong customer leadership skills; proactively anticipates, understands, and responds to the needs of clients to meet or exceed their expectations.
• Must be able to use a computer for up to 8 hours per day.
• 10 - 25% Travel, as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead our Americas transportation and international trade team to ensure development and process enhancement.
• Develop reasonable logistics plans and initiate practical process improvements (PPI) supporting the customer and cost savings.
• Responsible for the international transportation trade documentation and shipping compliance.
• Improve standards for logistics cost accounting, adhering to financial budgets, and maintaining cost controls.
• Connect with internal customers accurately by responding to customer needs, coordinate and tackle any problems that may arise during logistics services.
• Develop departmental work plans, annual goals, and human resources plans, and lead team to complete work tasks.
• Optimize the company's logistics system to improve logistics efficiency, shorten transport cycles, etc.
• Manages and leads operational aspects of our transportation business
• Participates in cross-functional business process improvement activities as the need arises.
• Provides regional financial information (forecasting, reporting).
• Develops, mentors and evaluates (PMDs) Transportation & International Trade Team.
• Establish Goals for direct reports in accordance with company initiatives and vision.
• Provides support for customer issues related to shipments and projects.
• Identifies, develops and implements process improvement to improve overall efficiency and productivity of the transportation team.
• Drives digital supply chain initiatives to support operational efficiencies.

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits.
• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees