Job Description:
Job summary:
Responsible for leading end-to-end transportation operations and third-party logistics (3PL) strategy across domestic and international networks, ensuring efficiency, compliance, cost control, and strategic alignment with global supply chain objectives.
Key responsibilities:
- Strategic and Operational Leadership: Develops and executes global transportation strategies, aligning with organizational goals and enabling cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable logistics operations. This includes overseeing domestic, regional, and international freight movements across multiple modes such as truckload, LTL, intermodal, ocean, and air freight.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across transportation and warehousing.
- Collaborate with senior management to integrate logistics strategy into overall business objectives.
- Leads cross functional projects as directed to achieve transportation and 3PL service improvements aligned with business goals.
- Establishing and monitoring standard operating procedures (SOPs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and benchmarks for transportation and distribution operations.
- Serve as the main point of contact for selecting 3PL providers, ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
- Negotiate contracts, monitor performance, and manage vendor relationships to optimize costs and service quality.
- Budgeting and Financials: Responsible for setting and managing transportation budgets, forecasting costs, and identifying opportunities for cost optimization while maintaining service quality and operational reliability.
- Process Improvement and Digital Transformation: Drives continuous improvement initiatives, standardizing transportation processes, leveraging technology and automation, and enhancing digital capabilities like Transportation Management Systems (TMS), shipment visibility platforms, and analytics dashboards
- Team Leadership and Development: Lead and develop a high‑performing, inclusive team by providing ongoing coaching and performance feedback, driving engagement and retention initiatives, and ensuring full compliance with Allison policies while effectively managing employee relations matters.
- Key performance measures: Cost Efficiency & Financial Performance
- Service Level & Delivery Performance
- Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
- Inventory & Supply Chain Performance
- Risk Management, Compliance & Sustainability
- Competencies and behaviors: Adhering to the highest standards in what we do . We succeed through integrity, trust, and quality as we drive for results.
- Drive a positive customer experience . We deliver better outcomes when we understand our customers’ needs and execute appropriately.
- Improve the way the world works . We develop better solutions through innovation and a continuous desire to improve.
- Leveraging the power of teamwork . We develop better solutions by working together toward a common goal.
- High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult.
- Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output.
- Highly developed oral and written communications skills.
- Complete knowledge of Corporate/unit traffic procedures.
- Preferred: Experience with international transportation.
- Knowledge and experience in customs regulations.
Experience and qualifications:
Required:
· Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, transportation, engineering, business, or related field.
· 12+ years of progressive leadership experience.
· Demonstrated problem solving skills and strategic leadership.
· Demonstrated ability to lead teams and build consensus with key stakeholders.
· Strong communication skills, including ability to present and articulate strategic business direction in forums that include executive senior leadership.
· Demonstrated ability to link corporate operating plans to manufacturing and distribution capacity.
· Demonstrated success in decision-making that has had significant impact on the business, most notably: customer satisfaction, operating expense, and regulatory compliance.
· Experience leading in matrix organizations where influence and negotiation skills are required to get tasks completed.
Preferred:
· MBA
- · Experience leading in international, multi-site global environments
- Travel Expectations
- · International travel up to 25% to establish and maintain relationships
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