This role is responsible for the procurement of North America transportation services for all assigned business (vendor to hub - VTH, hub to distributor - HTD and vendor to distributor - VTD). The Director will lead the effort to obtain the best combination of service, capacity, and total cost. Working with the COO, the Director will assist in developing a strategy to obtain the best combination of service, capacity, and total cost while ensuring the procurement processes meets agreed timescales and achieves agreed upon business objectives.
Essential duties:
- Responsible for all procurement activities related to securing competitive transportation services for all assigned business that result in the lowest landed total cost with the highest possible service level
- Lead the preparation of annual Transportation budget and analyze monthly variances
- Develop and maintain strategic carrier relationships and transportation performance KPI reports for all relevant transportation modes including conducting carrier meetings/reviews
- Manage diverse stakeholder groups including owner/operators and suppliers; act as a point of contact for supplier escalation and queries related to activity
- Analyzes RFI and RFQ responses. Benchmark rate information versus historic pricing and versus competition
- Develops and maintain a commodity price trackers and outlook (e.g., fuel, shipping) to support category strategy
- Perform supplier spend analysis, including reporting to establish visibility of spend patterns by category, region, and supplier.
- Prepare and lead supplier negotiations
- Support Operations on the execution of Contracts, Amendments and Work Orders, liaising with Legal, Tax, Finance, and Risk as required
- Obtain data and stakeholder input to support supplier performance and business reviews.
- Identify, review and report on supplier metrics and savings for category activities. Connect supplier performance reporting to other business groups
- Earn the trust of key stakeholders as the function develops
- Champion standards and process improvements
- Secure surge volume capacity as required
Qualifications/Education Requirements:
- 5-7 years Transportation Management, Carrier management and Procurement experience
- Minimum 4 years' experience managing direct reports and teams, LTL experience required
- Bachelor Degree in related field – Business, Transportation, Logistics
- Demonstrated financial and/or analytical experience in forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and/or data interpretation and analysis of large data sets (e.g. for RFQ analysis)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook & Access, TMS applications
- Thorough understanding of transportation management terms and concepts including Air Freight, Ocean Freight, Truckload and Local Cartage
- Proven analytical, problem solving, decision making and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment; effective multi-tasking skills
6-month goals:
- Develop and Implement process to manage / bid/ reduce transportation spending
- LTL Common Carriers - Expand base
- Tools used to manager LTL Tariffs
Competitive salary benefits package, including 401k.
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