Transportation Manager, Network Strategy

About Us

Exol is bringing industry-leading automation to businesses of all sizes through an innovative warehouse-as-a-service model. We pioneer warehousing-as-a-service, offering outsourced warehousing operations and specializing in automated warehousing solutions. Our focus is on the efficient movement of goods in cases and pallets across wholesale, retail, and general merchandising sectors. Exol is an independently managed joint venture between Symbotic and Softbank.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain transportation network strategies, optimize transportation flows, evaluate cross-dock footprint and service areas, and build routing and consolidation strategies to improve scalability and performance.
• Create short- and long-term capacity plans, identify constraints, and model transportation scenarios to support growth and customer expansion.
• Analyze transportation costs, shipment flows, and performance trends; develop business cases and recommendations that support executive decision-making.
• Define and maintain transportation planning parameters within Manhattan Active TM, establish planning standards, and partner with IT and Continuous Improvement to enhance planning capabilities.
• Collaborate with transportation, supply chain, IT, continuous improvement, and operations teams to support scalable and efficient network performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in transportation planning, network design, or supply chain strategy.
• Experience with Transportation Management Systems, preferably Manhattan Active TM.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Experience designing and optimizing retail consolidation transportation networks.
• Experience supporting supplier-to-retailer distribution networks, including cross-dock operations and final delivery to retailer distribution centers.
• Experience with multi-origin, multi-stop transportation planning, freight consolidation, and load optimization.
• Experience developing network optimization business cases, capacity models, and transportation cost analyses.
• Experience in brokerage, managed transportation, retail transportation management, greenfield operations, or large-scale transportation transformations.

Work Environment

• Up to 25% of travel may be required.
• Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
• The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.

Pay

The base range for this position in the posted location is $95,000.00 - $130,900.00. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, and PTO benefits.