Transportation Services Manager

We are looking for Transportation Services Manager for our client in New Brunswick, NJ

Job Title: Transportation Services Manager

Job Location: New Brunswick, NJ

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Pay Range: $38.11hr - $42.11hr

Responsibilities:

• Manage door-door operational management for the client’s inter-region transport lanes, ensuring consistent product availability and the highest levels of customer experience.
• Lead process improvement projects leveraging PM methodologies like Six Sigma, FPX, etc., to drive reliability and or cost efficiencies for inter-regional transport moves.
• Ability to present performance metrics and project charters/updates to various levels of management.
• Responsible for coordination, track & trace, and exception management for segment inter-region transportation lanes.
• Lead/participate in operational vendor management meetings (business reviews, reporting on operational vendor performance) and lead day-to-day tactical relationships with the vendors.
• As required, partner with DC and manufacturing facilities to coordinate and manage freight on inter-regional lanes. Partner with the Deliver Quality to ensure that transport operations is managed within the appropriate quality framework.
• Primary point of contact for sites and logistics providers to communicate issues affecting shipment flows, including but not limited to missing documentation, freight delays, quality events, and shipping receiving delays.
• Perform ad-hoc operational analytics to drive day-to-day business efficiencies.
• Lead operational activities to support global bids for various inter-region transport moves; including requirements, baseline validation, and lane implementation to pre-established metrics.
• Provide support for event management in other geographical regions based on the criticality of issues.
• Stakeholder support: Be SME for launches, projects, CIPs, and cust service projects Support tenders led by Sourcing partners Support service issues and drive to resolution Lane Implementation Support lane implementation for new lanes either as part of a tender or part of a lane change for any reason (new routing, new customer, etc.)
• Follow SOP for lane implementation.
• Connect: forge internal collaboration across the supply chain and cultivate external relationships and partnerships.
• Deliver: Empower people to act with speed, agility, accountability.
• Shape: Challenge the status quo, lead, and adapt to change.
• Lead - Encourage others to engage in transparent & constructive conversations, contributing to high-performing teams.
• Other features of the job: Highly matrixed, global organization; multi-sector Heavy project management and influencing.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required with 2-4 years’ experience.
• Preferred previous experience or internship in one or more of the following functions: Planning, Distribution, Manufacturing, Transportation, Logistics, Customer Service, or SC Operations.
• Possess technical skills and sound judgment to effectively assess risk, and triage issues for severity and imminence, and potential impact.
• MS Office proficiency.
• Working knowledge of project management tools (Microsoft Project, GNATT, RACI, Lessons Learned, FMEA, etc.) are desired.
• Knowledge of analytics using Alteryx and Tableau are desired.
• Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and work with different cultures.
• Experience with Six Sigma/Process Excellence tools, training, and/or certification is desired.