Job description

Director of Transportation

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Overview:*
The Director Transportation is responsible for managing all aspects of transportation from coordination of the day-to-day transportation operations to directing major projects. This would include creating reporting, establishing metrics (KPI’s), and improving transportation management practices by supporting transportation procurement processes and creating strong operational processes and controls around the movement of inventory. Working cross functionally with other areas, most notably our internal fleet, is a requirement for success in this role.
This role requires one to be very familiar with Oracle Transportation Management (OTM Cloud). The role will need to optimize the existing systems the company has as well as identify potential other systems that the company should implement.
This role requires the ability to coordinate outbound shipment arrival with internal and external parties and to ensure data alignment across our systems and partner’s platform to drive process improvement by partnering with transportation providers and internal parties. Finally, this position plays a critical role ensuring that the operations group meets or exceeds customer needs and business objectives. No task is too big or too small if it supports driving customer satisfaction and business requirements.
Qualifications

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Related Work Experience: 5 years of work experience in the transportation or relevant related field

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Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field and at least 5 years of experience in Business Management positions, including a minimum of 2 years managing analysts, planners and professional-level or hourly staff

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Project Management experience, either formal training, or multiple years of project management leadership with the ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully

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Previous ownership of carrier/supplier relationships and processes

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Experience in directly negotiating with transportation/logistics vendors, specifically with domestic truck carriers (LTL, FTL)

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Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills, along with the ability to leverage data to develop business insights, identify trends and support management decision making

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3-5 years’ experience with Oracle OTM TMS planning & execution, along with OTM freight audit & payment

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2-3 years’ transportation planning experience leveraging FourKites is a strong plus.

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Solid systems aptitude: knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Office applications, with emphasis on Excel (Pivot tables / VLOOKUPS) and Access

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Strong customer service experience: a demonstrated ability to interface with customers, carriers, and internal warehouse leadership

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Experience in companies who have their own fleet is a plus.

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Self-motivated and an ability to take initiative in a dynamic & fast pace environment

Responsibilities

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Ensure all transportation software tools are fully optimized and standardized across the organization

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Optimize (balance) service and costs, making difficult decisions and resolving operational and customer issues.

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Challenge the status quo by identifying productivity opportunities, articulating (project plan) the ROI, and driving and implementing change

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Develop OTM strategic plan to ensure OTM generated optimization/execution plans are consistently above 85%; mitigate and eliminate manual planning via tribal knowledge

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Develop FourKites strategic plan targeting 90% implementation across common carriers and internal fleet

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Develop standardized carrier performance metrics to measure carrier performance impacting transportation effectiveness

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Manage and drive the execution of projects from inception to completion

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Monitor and formally report upon expected results of initiatives

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Drive process improvements across technology providers, internal teams, and carriers (i.e., OTM, FourKites)

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Quarterly network modeling refinement recommendations

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Develop, implement and maintain an effective track & trace model working closely with the buying, customer care and Fleet teams.

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Manage a transportation spend of $80MM+

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Manage a team of 3 transportation analysts and planners

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Freight payment and cost analysis

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Create and maintain transportation shipment data and metrics (KPI’s)

Job Type: Full-time

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