Vice President of Transportation and Logistics

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the strategic direction, leadership, and overall performance of transportation, logistics, and recycling operations.
• This includes trucking, dispatching, fleet maintenance, scheduling, safety, material handling, and P&L accountability.
• This role oversees the collection, processing, and resale of recyclable materials—including pallets, cardboard, plastics across multiple locations.
• This role will drive operational efficiency, maximize asset utilization, and grow revenue through effective logistics execution, backhauls, and commodity market optimization.
• Provide strategic leadership and vision for transportation, logistics, and recycling operations, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Oversee all trucking operations including dispatch, routing, scheduling, and fleet utilization to maximize efficiency, safety and service levels.
• Seek out and introduce processes and structure that focuses on efficiency, sustainability, and scalability.
• Supervise the dispatching of daily loads for all stores and distribution centers.
• Ensure department always meets and exceeds all DOT and State requirements.
• Oversee the complete maintenance of all fleet trucks, trailers, and repair shops in all locations.
• Manage scheduling of all inbound and outbound freight into the DC and stores through efficient use of TMS and internal software.
• Utilize KPI’s to drive efficiencies.
• Coincide with the purchasing department and current vendors to grow business opportunities through backhauls.
• Manage relationships with key business partners internally and externally, including stakeholders, parcel and freight carriers, 3PL providers, and retail partners.
• Lead recycling operations including collection, sorting, and processing, of pallets, cardboard, plastics, and other materials.
• Identify and expand revenue through effective management and sale of recyclable commodities.
• Partner with key functions of the business including Distribution, Operations, Finance, IT, Merchandising, HR and Legal to ensure consistent and smooth operations.
• Responsible for the P&L of transportation, logistics and recycling.
• May be required to cross train and perform other duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong industry knowledge of best practices in supply chain management and transportation
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong decision maker with exceptional time management and organizational skills
• Proficiency in MS Office