Manager of Global Transportation @Franklin Lakes NJ 07417
Reporting to the Senior Manager Global Transportation and Analytics, the Manager Global Transportation is responsible to manage on-going international heavy air, ocean, drayage and parcel freight activities with annual spend in excess of $200MM in support of regional logistics operations. This will involve collaboration with regional supply chain and manufacturing stakeholders to manage day-to-day global freight activities performed by third party logistics partners. Provides on-going support to regional stakeholders to ensure continuity and reliability of freight services as businesses grow and environment changes. Monitor and report provider KPI and performance to SOPs and service level agreements.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with regional stakeholders to resolve transportation service challenges and provide service solutions.
- Engage regularly with logistics providers to monitor shipment status and address transportation service challenges.
- In collaboration with regional operational stakeholders monitor logistic partner performance metrics against KPIs, established SOPs and service level agreements.
- Support global RFQ activities and initiate spot quoting requests for new lanes or adhoc shipments.
- Identify global transportation CI opportunities and lead or support CI project initiatives as needed.
- Solicit spot quotes for any modes to establish or modify lane pricing as needed, and aggregate results within the global rate repository.
- Support data collection and analysis for international air, ocean, drayage and/or parcel RFQs, bid cycle and analyses.
- Troubleshoot provider invoice rejections by working with providers, responsible BD shippers, and regional freight audit teams to determine root cause for reject so invoices can be resubmitted for processing.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum six years relevant and recent hands-on experience managing international ocean and heavy air freight operational services with third party global logistics providers and ocean carriers.
- Experience with managing day-to-day international transport operations, and quoting ocean and air freight services is a must.
- Proficiency in managing spot quoting activities,
- Experience managing in a diverse, highly matrixed, highly regulated, multi-cultural environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of key supply chain/transportation processes & current best practices.
- Strong customer focus and a track record of delivering best in class service levels
- Prior Medical Device/Pharmaceutical international transportation operations with understanding of regulations and GDP/GMP standards affecting medical devices (FDA Quality System Regs/ISO 13485), and cold chain distribution experience highly desired.
COMPETENCIES:
- Ability to influence without authority across multiple functions in a highly matrixed global organization
- High degree of stakeholder and customer focus
- Demonstrated ability to manage global transportation projects across regions in a diverse, highly matrixed, multi-cultural environment.
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Works well under pressure and meets deadlines with quality work
- Tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to solve complex problems.
- Strong analytical skills and demonstrated financial acumen for logistics cost reporting and business case development
- System familiarity and skills desired:
- Advance skills in Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Macro creation, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project, Sharepoint)
- SAP ECC 6.0 and Business Intelligence
- TMS systems
- Logistics procurement tools
- Freight audit tools
- Dashboard creation for KPIs, other metrics
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably with a concentration in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Engineering.
CERTIFICATIONS:
- Six Sigma, APICS, Project Management or related certifications desirable
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Up to 10% domestic and/or international travel as needed
Thanks & Regards,
Sekhar Kumar
Sr. Technical recruiter
Software Technology, Inc.
100 Overlook Center, Suite 200, Princeton, NJ 08540
Direct: 6094348010
Board: 609 232 8700 X 119