Associate Manager Supply Chain Logistics

• Participates in functional and cross functional teams to meet objectives, improve processes, and improve stakeholder satisfaction. Develops and maintains standard operating procedures.
• Analyzes transportation data, trends, costs, and performance to identify opportunities and translate findings into actionable recommendations for leadership and business partners.
• Develops business cases and financial analyses for transportation initiatives, including identification of savings opportunities, measurement of financial benefits, and ongoing performance tracking.
• Supports carrier strategy and network optimization, including carrier diversification, service-level optimization, provider performance, capacity considerations, and evaluation of new transportation solutions.
• Leads cross-functional projects from analysis through implementation, developing project plans, defining requirements, coordinating stakeholders, identifying risks, and tracking progress against key milestones and objectives.
• Partners with internal stakeholders and external providers to develop and execute transportation strategies that support end-to-end supply chain, operational, financial, and customer objectives.
• Trains, mentors, leads, and assists team members; may schedule work, and troubleshoots complex problems referred by others or self-diagnosed problems.
• Monitors, analyzes, and provides feedback on Supply Chain key performance indicators to exceed service performance measurements.
• Partners with all internal/external stakeholders, builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives.
• Subject matter expert in internal systems to execute daily operations flawlessly, Transportation Management System, On Board Computers, Dispatch Software, and warehouse management systems. Identifies and researches unique customer opportunities, issues, and requests.
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. Acts as a specialist in the field, uses professional concepts in developing resolution to critical issues.

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in a supply chain or business role OR High School/ GED and at least 4 years of experience in a supply chain or business role
• Experience analyzing, implementing, and/or operating a transportation management system (TMS).
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Experience working with relational databases, such as MS Access.
• Experience using business analytical skills including facilitating requirements sessions and documenting activity workflows and business requirements for technology-related projects.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

• Preferred Qualifications:

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