Transportation Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Candidates with a relevant master’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university and at least 6 years of relevant experience will be considered qualified.
• At least 2 years of demonstrated experience in team management and development or project leadership.
• Ability to lead and manage under ambiguity, prioritize IT projects based on business value, and apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization and influence across departments and reporting lines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage peers and executive leadership effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence, facilitate organizational change, and promote continuous improvement.
• Will have direct reports.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in at least three of the following areas: transportation management systems such as SAP TM; DSD applications, mobile devices, and route accounting; fleet management, telematics, ELD, and driver technologies such as Samsara; international shipping, customs, export, and trade compliance applications; transportation visibility, tracking, and logistics monitoring; or routing, scheduling, and transportation optimization.
• At least 7 years of experience with SAP TM, Blue Yonder TMS, Manhattan TMS, or Oracle Transportation Management (OTM).
• At least 3 years of experience with Infios DSD, SimplyDepo, or Descartes DSD solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the strategic link between business units and IT, aligning technology solutions with business and operational needs at all organizational levels.
• Drive decisions, set priorities, and communicate project status and business-unit requests across the organization.
• Advise on technology risks, opportunities, and innovations across transportation management, DSD, fleet management, telematics, transportation visibility, and international shipping.
• Define and influence strategic initiatives and long-term plans for transportation teams.
• Plan and manage business and operational changes enabled by technology, supporting adoption and alignment with business objectives.
• Partner with program managers, IT delivery teams, transportation stakeholders, finance, and operations to ensure timely project execution.
• Shape systems integration and rationalization strategy across transportation operations, including SAP TM, DSD, fleet telematics, international shipping, visibility, ERP, warehousing, carrier connectivity, and supply chain applications.
• Lead business process improvement and technology innovation initiatives, potentially including transportation optimization, route execution, digital proof of delivery, fleet tracking, carrier collaboration, freight settlement automation, driver mobility, international logistics automation, and transportation analytics.
• Guide research and pilots, evaluate emerging technologies, and communicate recommendations on transportation and logistics platforms and architectures.
• Develop and execute technology roadmaps for transportation management, route delivery, fleet operations, visibility, international shipping, logistics integration, and transportation modernization.
• Lead and develop employees through coaching.
• Manage project portfolios and budgets and ensure deployed technologies are effectively sustained.

Benefits

• Relocation package available.