Manager of Global Transportation (Heavy Air, Ocean, Drayage And Parcel Freight Activities)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with regional stakeholders to resolve transportation service challenges and provide service solutions.
• Engage regularly with logistics providers to monitor shipment status and address transportation service challenges.
• In collaboration with regional operational stakeholders monitor logistic partner performance metrics against KPIs, established SOPs and service level agreements.
• Support global RFQ activities and initiate spot quoting requests for new lanes or adhoc shipments.
• Identify global transportation CI opportunities and lead or support CI project initiatives as needed.
• Solicit spot quotes for any modes to establish or modify lane pricing as needed, and aggregate results within the global rate repository.
• Support data collection and analysis for international air, ocean, drayage and/or parcel RFQs, bid cycle and analyses.
• Troubleshoot provider invoice rejections by working with providers, responsible BD shippers, and regional freight audit teams to determine root cause for reject so invoices can be resubmitted for processing.

Requirements

• Experience:
  • Minimum six years relevant and recent hands-on experience managing international ocean and heavy air freight operational services with third party global logistics providers and ocean carriers.
  • Experience with managing day-to-day international transport operations, and quoting ocean and air freight services is a must.
  • Proficiency in managing spot quoting activities,
  • Experience managing in a diverse, highly matrixed, highly regulated, multi-cultural environment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of key supply chain/transportation processes & current best practices.
  • Strong customer focus and a track record of delivering best in class service levels
  • Prior Medical Device/Pharmaceutical international transportation operations with understanding of regulations and GDP/GMP standards affecting medical devices (FDA Quality System Regs/ISO 13485), and cold chain distribution experience highly desired.
• Competencies:
  • Ability to influence without authority across multiple functions in a highly matrixed global organization
  • High degree of stakeholder and customer focus
  • Demonstrated ability to manage global transportation projects across regions in a diverse, highly matrixed, multi-cultural environment.
  • Good communication and presentation skills
  • Works well under pressure and meets deadlines with quality work
  • Tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to solve complex problems.
  • Strong analytical skills and demonstrated financial acumen for logistics cost reporting and business case development
• System familiarity and skills desired:
  • Advance skills in Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Macro creation, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint)
  • SAP ECC 6.0 and Business Intelligence
  • TMS systems
  • Logistics procurement tools
  • Freight audit tools
  • Dashboard creation for KPIs, other metrics
• Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree, preferably with a concentration in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Engineering.
• Certifications:
  • Six Sigma, APICS, Project Management or related certifications desirable

Qualifications

No H1B’s

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)