Transportation Performance Manager
About The Position
The Transportation Performance Manager plays a critical role in enabling Baxter’s healthcare supply chain by providing end-to-end financial visibility, analytical insight, and disciplined cost management across a $300M+ transportation portfolio. This role serves as the primary link between fulfillment operations, freight payment, and finance—translating complex operational, commercial, and macroeconomic inputs into clear financial insight, risk identification, and actionable opportunities. Partnering closely with fulfillment and finance leadership, the Transportation Performance Manager helps ensure continuity of supply while driving sound, data-driven decisions that balance service, cost, and risk. Success in this role requires strong transportation domain knowledge, advanced financial and analytical capability, and the ability to operate effectively in complex and sometimes ambiguous environments. The individual must be able to synthesize large datasets into meaningful narratives and confidently communicate insights to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, supply chain, analytics, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in transportation, supply chain finance, logistics analytics, or freight audit and payment.
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong executive communication, analytical, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Nice To Haves
- Tableau or Power BI experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide clear, accurate visibility into $300M+ of transportation spend across modes, regions, and programs.
- Track, forecast, and report freight costs while ensuring strong alignment between operational activity and financial outcomes.
- Analyze key freight cost drivers, including rates, accessorials, volume shifts, mode changes, service failures, fuel impacts, and network changes.
- Partner with fulfillment leadership to understand operational decisions and their financial implications, while identifying opportunities for efficiency and cost improvement.
- Support the development, validation, and tracking of transportation cost-saving initiatives to ensure benefits are clearly defined and realized.
- Serve as a liaison with finance to ensure transportation performance is clearly reflected in the P&L, including gap analysis and corrective actions as needed.
- Own and manage freight accrual data from systems such as Trax / D2L, leveraging analytical models and dashboards.
- Oversee freight pay and accrual processes, including month-end close support, variance analysis, and true-up activities.
- Audit freight invoices to ensure accuracy, adherence to contracted rates, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
- Collaborate with finance to strengthen controls that ensure financial accuracy, audit readiness, and compliance with internal policies.
- Identify and address root causes of accrual inaccuracies, including late invoices, duplicate payments, and other cost leakage risks.
- Develop analytical models and tools to support freight spend analysis, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
- Translate complex and incomplete datasets into actionable insights for fulfillment and finance leadership.
- Produce recurring and ad hoc reporting with clear narratives explaining trends, risks, and mitigation actions.
- Support business cases for network, sourcing, or operational changes by quantifying cost, service, and risk trade-offs.
- Act as a key connector across fulfillment, finance, planning, commercial, and customer service teams.
- Influence stakeholders to adopt financially sound operational decisions, balancing cost and service in line with Baxter’s fulfillment strategy.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to freight spend transparency, process efficiency, and data quality.
- Create and document standard processes, assumptions, and financial playbooks for transportation management.
Benefits
- medical and dental coverage that start on day one
- insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- educational assistance programs
- paid holidays
- paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service
- family and medical leaves of absence
- paid parental leave
- commuting benefits
- Employee Discount Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- childcare benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
