Transportation Performance Manager

About the role

The Transportation Performance Manager plays a critical role in enabling Baxter’s healthcare supply chain by providing end-to-end financial visibility, analytical insight, and disciplined cost management across a $300M+ transportation portfolio.

This role serves as the primary link between fulfillment operations, freight payment, and finance—translating complex operational, commercial, and macroeconomic inputs into clear financial insight, risk identification, and actionable opportunities. Partnering closely with fulfillment and finance leadership, the Transportation Performance Manager helps ensure continuity of supply while driving sound, data-driven decisions that balance service, cost, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear, accurate visibility into $300M+ of transportation spend across modes, regions, and programs.
• Track, forecast, and report freight costs while ensuring strong alignment between operational activity and financial outcomes.
• Analyze key freight cost drivers, including rates, accessorials, volume shifts, mode changes, service failures, fuel impacts, and network changes.
• Partner with fulfillment leadership to understand operational decisions and their financial implications, while identifying opportunities for efficiency and cost improvement.
• Serve as a liaison with finance to ensure transportation performance is clearly reflected in the P&L, including gap analysis and corrective actions as needed.

Freight Pay, Accruals & Financial Controls

• Own and manage freight accrual data from systems such as Trax / D2L, leveraging analytical models and dashboards.
• Oversee freight pay and accrual processes, including month-end close support, variance analysis, and true-up activities.
• Audit freight invoices to ensure accuracy, adherence to contracted rates, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Collaborate with finance to strengthen controls that ensure financial accuracy, audit readiness, and compliance with internal policies.
• Identify and address root causes of accrual inaccuracies, including late invoices, duplicate payments, and other cost leakage risks.

Analytics & Decision Support

• Develop analytical models and tools to support freight spend analysis, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
• Translate complex and incomplete datasets into actionable insights for fulfillment and finance leadership.
• Produce recurring and ad hoc reporting with clear narratives explaining trends, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Support business cases for network, sourcing, or operational changes by quantifying cost, service, and risk trade-offs.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Act as a key connector across fulfillment, finance, planning, commercial, and customer service teams.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt financially sound operational decisions, balancing cost and service in line with Baxter’s fulfillment strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to freight spend transparency, process efficiency, and data quality.
• Create and document standard processes, assumptions, and financial playbooks for transportation management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, supply chain, analytics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in transportation, supply chain finance, logistics analytics, or freight audit and payment.
• Advanced Excel skills; Tableau or Power BI experience preferred.
• Strong executive communication, analytical, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Pay

The estimated base salary for this position is $96,000-$132,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.