Transportation Lead

Transportation Lead

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Rol rapporteert aan:

Manager Transportation Operations

Locatie:

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit

Werklocatie:

Hybride

Wat je gaat doen

The Transportation Lead is responsible for overseeing transportation services, including freight management, strategic transportation analysis, compliance, claims, freight payment, import/export services, and deviations. Facilitate the expedited freight approval process and track spend. Partner with manufacturing, distribution, and planning colleagues to streamline flow and minimize costs.

Key Responsibilities

· Supervise transportation analysts, with responsibility for goal setting, development, and performance management.

· Evaluate and propose automation solutions that maximize resource effectiveness, decrease cycle times, and minimize transactional defects.

· Support transformation projects by helping to define business process requirements with business partners to improve the customer experience and attain capabilities goals.

· Analyze strategic transportation supply chain requirements and develop creative solutions.

· Primary point of contact for sites and logistics providers to communicate issues affecting shipment flows, including but not limited to missing documentation, freight delays, quality events and shipping receiving delays.

· Collaborate with internal & external business partners, including Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing, and Carriers to deliver results across critical metrics owned by Transportation such as on-time delivery, cost improvement programs, freight spend performance vs. budget, security infraction rates, and quality deliverables.

· Lead operational activities to support carrier bids for various domestic and inter-region transport moves; including requirements, baseline validation and lane implementation to pre-established metrics.

· Lead/participate in operational vendor management meetings (business reviews, reporting on operational vendor performance) and lead day to day tactical relationship with the vendors

· Utilize data to develop analyses that uncover insights and opportunities; provide input and analyze strategic transportation supply chain requirements. Lead process improvement projects leveraging PM methodologies like Six Sigma, FPX, etc., to drive reliability and or cost efficiencies.

· Oversee specified transportation services, including freight management, strategic transportation analysis, compliance, claims, freight payment, import/export services, and deviations.

· Additional responsibilities include coordination, track & trace/exception management for assigned transportation lanes, and ad-hoc operational analytics to drive day to day business efficiencies

Qualifications

Position Requirements:

· Minimum Bachelor's degree required

· Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience required

· Experience in logistics, customer service, transportation, distribution, operations, supply chain, and/or information technology

· Intermediate Microsoft Office proficiency, including lookup & reference functions, conditional statements, pivots, and macros

· Requires data analytics experience to successfully organize, analyze, and interpret data to identify opportunities and influence business operations

· Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully and work independently while demonstrating initiative

· Ability to work in fast paced environment with multiple priorities

· Strong intellectual curiosity and ability to embrace learning

· Ability to work in a matrix environment and work with different cultures

· Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion

Preferred Competencies:

· People leadership experience preferred

· Demonstrated business results in optimizing business processes, using various Data & Analytics tools

· Experience or thorough working knowledge desired with SAP, BW, Tableau, or Power BI; Alteryx, Qlik, or other data software is a plus

· Experience and depth of understanding with Transportation Management Systems (e.g., Blue Yonder, Oracle) or other supply chain systems such as ERP’s (e.g., SAP). Previous TMS implementation experience a plus.

· Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to succeed with internal and external business partners

· Project management experience and tools

· Six Sigma/Process Excellence Tools, Training or certification

· APICS Certification

· Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion

what's in it for you

$110,500.00 - $156,000.00

Hierbij wordt rekening gehouden met een aantal factoren, waaronder de werklocatie, de vaardigheden, ervaring, opleidingsniveau van de kandidaat & andere werkgerelateerde factoren.

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