Vice President - Logistics

Vice President, Logistics will be the enterprise leader responsible for developing and executing logistics and distribution strategy across the company and its affiliated businesses. 

$175,000.00- $235,000.00+30% Bonus+ Generous 401K

Keys

1] 10 years Logistics

2] Contract Negotiations

3] Varied Products ; Varied modes of Transport

4]Data - KPI's , Pivot Tables

5]Ability to Define/Re-Define Processes

6] Hunger to Achieve

7] Pittsburgh or available to spend time in Pittsburgh

8] Travel 40% 

The Vice President will lead the safe, reliable, and cost-effective movement of inbound supplier freight, intercompany materials and work-in-process, and outbound finished goods . The role will be responsible for company-operated fleet activities, third-party transportation, rail, freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, freight procurement, transportation technology, logistics performance management, and the governance of transportation terms and freight responsibilities.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline required. 
• MBA, master’s degree, or other advanced business, technical, or supply-chain degree preferred. 
• Relevant professional certifications, such as APICS CSCP, ASCM CLTD, Certified Transportation Professional, or comparable credentials, are beneficial. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ten or more years of progressive experience in logistics, transportation, distribution, supply chain, or related operations leadership. 
• At least seven years of senior leadership responsibility within a multi-site industrial, manufacturing, mining, steel, construction-products, heavy-materials, or similarly complex operating environment. 
• Demonstrated success leading logistics across multiple businesses, facilities, regions, and operating models. 
• Experience managing both company-operated fleet activities and third-party transportation providers. 
• Strong working knowledge of truckload, less-than-truckload, dedicated fleet, rail, intermodal, freight forwarding, expedited transportation, warehousing, and distribution operations. 
• Global logistics experience, including international transportation, freight forwarding, customs, and import/export activities. 
• Demonstrated success negotiating major transportation, carrier, warehouse, brokerage, and third-party logistics agreements. 
• Strong financial acumen, including experience managing logistics budgets, forecasts, cost models, capital investments, cost-to-serve analysis, freight accruals, and savings programs. 
• Demonstrated record of delivering measurable EBITDA and total-landed-cost improvement through transportation sourcing, network optimization, fleet productivity, mode conversion, freight controls, and related value-creation initiatives.
• Proven ability to use data and KPI discipline to improve safety, customer service, productivity, cost, asset utilization, and working capital. 
• Experience designing or optimizing distribution networks, transportation lanes, fleet structures, warehouse footprints, and shipment flows. 
• Experience leading enterprise transformation, process standardization, technology implementation, acquisition integration, or significant organizational change. 
• Familiarity with transportation management systems, warehouse management systems, fleet-management platforms, telematics, ERP systems, and business-intelligence tools. 
• Advanced analytical skills and the ability to translate large, complex data sets into clear operating decisions and executive recommendations. 
• Strong knowledge of applicable transportation safety, fleet, driver, customs, and trade-compliance requirements. 
• Working knowledge of transportation terms, routing-guide governance, and Incoterms, with the ability to partner effectively with Procurement, Sales, Finance, and Legal on supplier and customer freight responsibilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with drivers, dispatchers, plant leaders, commercial teams, customers, suppliers, carriers, and executive leadership. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute an enterprise logistics strategy aligned with JENNMAR’s growth plans, customer-service commitments, operating requirements, margin objectives, working-capital goals, and enterprise value-creation priorities.
• Lead and coordinate inbound, intercompany, and outbound logistics across company-operated fleet, dedicated and common carriers, rail, intermodal transportation, freight forwarding, expedited transportation, parcel services, warehousing, and distribution activities.
• Establish a common logistics operating model across JENNMAR and its affiliates, including standards for dispatch, routing, load planning, shipment tendering, tracking, delivery confirmation, freight settlement, claims, and exception management. 
• Evaluate the economics and performance of JENNMAR’s private fleet, including fleet size, utilization, maintenance, driver capacity, safety, backhaul opportunities, empty miles, equipment requirements, and owned-versus-outsourced transportation decisions. 
• Optimize the logistics network by evaluating plant, supplier, warehouse, and customer flows; transportation modes; shipment consolidation; distribution locations; transfer activity; inventory positioning; direct-ship opportunities; and inbound-versus-supplier-controlled freight.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise carrier and logistics-provider strategy that ensures appropriate capacity, service, geographic coverage, commercial terms, and contingency support. 
• Partner with Procurement and Legal to negotiate regional and enterprise agreements with carriers, rail providers, freight forwarders, brokers, warehouse operators, third-party logistics providers, and other logistics partners. Establish governance for transportation terms, freight responsibilities, routing instructions, and applicable Incoterms in supplier and customer agreements.
• Own the logistics budget, forecasting process, cost-reduction pipeline, capital requirements, and financial performance reporting. Provide clear visibility into transportation spend, cost-to-serve, freight recovery, and savings realization, and deliver measurable EBITDA improvement through freight productivity, network optimization, asset utilization, procurement leverage, and elimination of logistics waste.
• Strengthen freight accrual, payment, audit, accessorial, detention, demurrage, claims, and carrier-settlement controls to improve financial accuracy and eliminate avoidable costs. 
• Establish an enterprise logistics dashboard and operating-review cadence covering safety, on-time pickup and delivery, freight cost, cost per shipment or ton, fleet utilization, empty miles, loaded miles, weight/cube utilization, backhaul performance, mode conversion, carrier performance, accessorial charges, claims, warehouse performance, and customer-service levels.
• Lead the logistics technology roadmap, including transportation management, warehouse management, fleet telematics, shipment visibility, route optimization, ERP integration, electronic freight documentation, and business-intelligence tools. 
• Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of logistics data. Establish common definitions, reporting standards, master-data requirements, and accountability for data accuracy. 
• Partners with Operations, Procurement, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Information Technology, Safety, and business-unit leaders to align logistics capacity with production plans, inventory requirements, customer commitments, and growth initiatives. 
• Provide logistics leadership as part of the sales and operations planning process, including capacity planning, seasonal requirements, inventory deployment, transportation constraints, and service-risk identification. 
• Lead the resolution of major customer-delivery issues, carrier disruptions, capacity shortages, weather events, labor constraints, and other logistics escalations. 
• Develop business-continuity and contingency plans for critical transportation lanes, carriers, warehouses, suppliers, products, and customer locations. 
• Ensure compliance with applicable transportation safety, fleet, driver, customs, import/export, recordkeeping, and international trade requirements. 
• Support acquisition diligence and integration by evaluating logistics networks, transportation contracts, fleet assets, warehouse operations, systems, organizational capabilities, and synergy opportunities. 
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing logistics leadership team. Own logistics organizational design, including recommendations for centralized versus regional/site-level responsibilities. Clarify roles, decision rights, performance expectations, succession plans, talent requirements, and accountability across corporate, regional, and site-level logistics functions.
• Communicate logistics strategy, performance, risks, and investment requirements clearly to executive leadership and other internal and external stakeholders.