Sr. Logistics Procurement Manager

About the role

The Senior Manager, Logistics Procurement and Strategy is responsible for leading enterprise logistics procurement strategy, sourcing governance, supplier relationship management, and category planning across transportation, warehousing, drayage, ocean, LTL, repack materials, destruction services, and other logistics-related services.

Responsibilities

• Owns logistics procurement strategy and category planning across assigned domestic and international logistics categories, with accountability for sourcing roadmaps, supplier governance, commercial value delivery, and procurement-enabled support of network priorities.
• Connects market intelligence, supplier capability, network design requirements, and operational performance insights to sourcing decisions that support growth, service, cost, capacity, risk, and long-term scalability.
• Leads through a matrixed stakeholder model, influencing internal leaders and external suppliers to align requirements, improve execution, and strengthen commercial outcomes across logistics procurement activities.
• Team Leadership: Leads, manages, and develops a team of analysts; sets priorities, monitors performance, and builds capability in execution management and cross-functional coordination.
• Execution & Performance Ownership: Owns execution of operating plans and deliverables across assigned logistics programs or domains, ensuring alignment to service, cost, productivity, working capital, and risk objectives.
• Operating Routines & Governance: Establishes and leads operating cadences, review forums, action tracking, and escalation mechanisms that support disciplined follow-through.
• Reporting & Insights: Owns performance reporting and analysis; ensures data validation, consistency, and actionable insight generation. Translates data and performance findings into clear narratives, recommendations, and decision support for leadership.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partners with Planning, Warehouse Operations, Transportation, Customer Management, Network Design, Procurement, Finance, IT, Legal, Corporate Compliance, Internal Audit, and external partners to align priorities and execution. Communicates execution risks, trade-offs, recommendations, and priorities to drive aligned decision-making.
• Process Discipline & Continuous Improvement: Reinforces adherence to standard operating procedures, escalations paths, and execution frameworks. Identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve execution processes and scalable ways of working.
• Influence Logistics Network Strategy: Champion continuous improvement across procurement processes, analytics, tools, reporting, contract management, and digitization practices to strengthen spend visibility, sourcing effectiveness, execution consistency, and organizational capability. Align procurement and sourcing approaches to transportation, distribution, inventory, capacity, and service objectives across domestic and international operations.
• Manage Supply, Capacity, Market, and Commercial Risks: Identify and manage supply, capacity, market, and commercial risks by developing contingency plans, monitoring supplier and market conditions, and strengthening supplier continuity strategies. Stay current on logistics market trends, supplier capabilities, technology solutions, and emerging procurement practices to inform category strategy, sourcing decisions, and continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, logistics, transportation, or supply chain, including responsibility for complex categories, supplier negotiations, and cross-functional initiatives.
• At least 3 years leading major sourcing events, category strategies, contract negotiations, supplier relationship management, and teams or large-scale cross-functional programs in complex logistics environments.
• Deep knowledge of transportation procurement, carrier and 3PL management, contracting, terms and conditions, bid optimization, supplier performance management, and logistics market dynamics.
• Strong analytical capability in total-cost modeling, scenario analysis, market intelligence, bid optimization, supplier performance evaluation, and executive reporting.
• Experience with sourcing tools, ERP and TMS platforms, procurement governance, spend analytics tools, and commercial contract review strongly preferred.
• Proven people leadership experience with the ability to build capability, develop team members, lead through ambiguity, and foster accountability and collaboration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex procurement, market, and network insights into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• CPSM, CPM, APICS, CSCP, or similar certification is a plus.