Network Design Manager

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Content: Position Summary: The network Design Manager will manage a single customer account and execute the day to day operations which have Penske-wide implications and impact. The position will be the primary Network Design and strategic account owner as viewed by both Penske and Customer. Customer operation consists of but not limited to inbound shipment of parts and outbound shipments of final product and all the various entities utilized to perform such work (Suppliers, 3PL’s, Carriers, etc.) The Network Design Manager is responsible to provide tactical direction and leadership to ensure customer requirements are met. This position will have direct responsibility over network Design Supervisors and each have a team of either Inbound or Outbound Logistics Analysts. This position can also have direct control over off-site personnel performing other operations execution activities. Managing these efforts will require cross-functional involvement within Penske Logistics, customers, vendors, suppliers and sometimes Penske Truck Leasing. Indirect coordination and management of the following support functions are critical to the success for the customer and position: Finance, Human Resources, Sourcing, Engineering, System Development, Product Line Leadership in Transportation Management (TM) / Distribution Center Management (DCM), and Dedicated Contract Services (DCC). Major Responsibilities: People: Interview and hire salaried associates. Facilitate the recruitment and assignment of all personnel required within the organizational structure of the account. Defines duties, responsibilities and scope of authority. Conduct performance review, corrective action, and goal setting for team of salaried employees Provide career development, mentoring, and promotional opportunities to direct reports to create future leaders. Provide leadership to team members in identifying project risks early and guide them in developing appropriate mitigation plans. Utilize leadership skills to align, develop and lead a diverse workforce to a common goal. Ensure team has a strong focus on details and is thoroughly trained in the problem resolution process. Intervene when necessary to resolve issues between project managers, operations, functional teams and customers. Operations: Responsible for day-to-day execution of all account activities. Monitors carrier performance to optimize value delivered to the customer. Quickly resolve any operations issues to eliminate production loss or transportation service failures & communicate with customer. Understand freight flows and a diverse carrier base to solve complex customer supply chain challenges Responsible for the formalization of comprehensive project plans, clarifying timelines, milestones, goals and ownership. Review operating metrics and fix out-of-tolerance results. Understand how customer, supplier and vendor fleets work together and affect overall supply chain performance. - Recommend vendors and suppliers necessary to deploy logistics solution. Create and foster a relationship with the customer's logistics manager to facilitate operational stability. Growth / Customer Experience: Manage the clients' expectations regarding our team's satisfactory performance & service execution. Work closely with customer's leadership and project team during scope development and option analysis phase. Proactively look for opportunities to grow existing operation & stay current on the customer's industry. Communicating all progress on a set cadence with customer and up through Penske covering KPI’s and continuous improvement initiatives Finance: The position will have full responsibility of the accounts financials, profit/loss, forecasting and variance reporting. Thoroughly review account budget for accuracy and report inconsistencies and analysis. Identify issues and resolve with leadership. Continually evaluate account to assess whether deliverable will meet customer's needs at the contractual rates. Understand the P&L, budget and financial health of the operation. Then after that we have: Bachelor's degree in Business or Supply Chain required 3 - 5 years related functional experience in multiple supply chain service lines (transportation, warehousing, LLP, etc), required. 3 - 5 years managerial or supervisory experience, required. A strong understanding of operations and supporting technology, especially web based applications. Knowledge of Transportation Management and systems Successful track record of building relationships with stakeholders or customers that have resulted in high customer satisfaction. Ability to meet & exceed weekly and monthly performance goals. Must be able to work with other departments to increase overall productivity for the company. Strong analytical and presentation skills, written/oral communication and organizational skills. Ability to manage multiple projects with a sense of urgency while maintaining a high degree of accuracy Strong problem solving skills. Skill in the operation of MS Office software programs, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required. Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The associate must regularly lift and /or move up to 25/lbs12kg, frequently lift and/or move up to 50lbs/ 23kg and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100lbs/45kg. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the associate is regularly required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. The associate is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Then EEO etc. Then About Penske Logistics etc. Then Job Category: Logistics/Supply Chain Job Family: Information Technology Address: 15041 S Commerce Drive Primary Location: US-MI-Dearborn Employer: Penske Logistics LLC Req ID: 2611623 We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, application instructions. Also remove "About Penske Logistics" maybe considered boilerplate? It's description of company; might be considered substantive? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "About Penske Logistics" is not exactly those; but it's generic company description. Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The "About Penske Logistics" is generic but could be considered substantive? However it's not specific to the job; it's company overview. Might be considered boilerplate but not explicitly listed. Safer to keep? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." It doesn't say remove generic company description. So we could keep it if we want, but we need to avoid filler. It's not filler; it's info about employer. Could be considered substantive. However we have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. The "About Penske Logistics" could go under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is for role summary. The position summary already covers that. The "About Penske Logistics" is about employer, not role. Could be placed under "About the role"? Not ideal. Maybe we can create a section "About the company" but not in allowed headings. The allowed headings list is fixed; we should only use those headings. So we should not add extra headings. So we need to fit content into those sections. The "About Penske Logistics" could be omitted as not required? But instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. However if we cannot fit it into allowed headings without creating new heading, maybe we should omit? But maybe we can incorporate into "About the role" as a brief note? But that would be mixing role summary with company info. Might be acceptable? The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples but we should use those headings. Likely they expect only those headings. So we should not add other headings. So we need to decide where to put company info. Could be part of "About the role" as a brief note? But that might be considered filler? Not sure. Better to omit company description because it's not directly about the role and might be considered boilerplate. The instruction to preserve ALL substantive information may be overridden by the need to not create extra headings. However we could include it in a

without a heading? The instruction says output ONLY the HTML fragment, no /. It didn't say we must have headings for every piece; we could have

paragraphs outside sections. But they said use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. So we can have prose paragraphs not under a heading? Possibly yes. But they likely expect sections. However we can include a

  for company overview without heading. That would preserve info. But we also have "Job Category: Logistics/Supply Chain Job Family: Information Technology Address: 15041 S Commerce Drive Primary Location: US-MI-Dearborn Employer: Penske Logistics LLC Req ID: 2611623". This is metadata; we should fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it. So we can include a short paragraph with location and job category etc. Thus plan: -

  About the role

  : include position summary (the first paragraph(s) describing role). Possibly also include the primary Network Design and strategic account owner description. That's the position summary. -

  Responsibilities

  : include the major responsibilities broken down into People, Operations, Growth/Customer Experience, Finance. Could be a list (
  • ) each responsibility as a bullet. Or we could keep prose. The instruction: Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should make a list. -

      Requirements

      : maybe include education and experience requirements: Bachelor's degree, 3-5 years functional experience, 3-5 years managerial/supervisory experience. Also maybe include "Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation ... and drug screening are required." That seems like requirements but also could be under Qualifications? The distinction between Requirements and Qualifications is fuzzy. We can put education/experience under Requirements, and skills/abilities under Qualifications or Skills. -

      Qualifications

      : maybe include "Strong understanding of operations and supporting technology, especially web based applications. Knowledge of Transportation Management and systems Successful track record of building relationships with stakeholders or customers that have resulted in high customer satisfaction. Ability to meet & exceed weekly and monthly performance goals. Must be able to work with other departments to increase overall productivity for the company. Strong analytical and presentation skills, written/oral communication and organizational skills. Ability to manage multiple projects with a sense of urgency while maintaining a high degree of accuracy Strong problem solving skills. Skill in the operation of MS Office software programs, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint." -

      Skills

      : maybe we could separate technical skills: MS Office, etc. But we already have skills in Qualifications. Could combine. Given we have limited sections, we might combine Qualifications and Skills into one section? But we need to follow headings only when posting has real specific content. We have content for Requirements, Responsibilities, About the role. For Qualifications we have many items. For Skills we have MS Office etc. Could put them together under Qualifications. Benefits, Pay, Schedule: The posting does not mention