Regional Transportation Manager

Your Job The Regional Transportation Manager is an integral member of the Global Transportation Team and is responsible for managing and leading the North America (AME) transportation operations performance to meet targeted transportation service level, cost saving and capabilities deployment. Focus will include proactive transportation management – both operationally and strategically with internal and external stakeholders to ensure all modes of transportation services are executed efficiently, mitigate risks, achieve optimal freight cost efficiency and meet customer commitments. In this role you will also be the key coordinator to drive operations stability and continuous improvement initiatives. This includes projects evaluation, recommendation, deployment, and management of regional transportation programs with external service partners, internal logistics, and other functional stakeholders. This role is ideally based at our Bolingbrook, IL facility. We are open to remote candidates for the right individual; however, the selected candidate must be willing to travel frequently to the Bolingbrook location, as well as participate in limited domestic and international travel to other facilities as needed. What You Will Do In Your Role Regional lead for AME international and domestic transportation cost and service performance, including USA, Mexico and Canada local and cross‑border transportations. Continuously improve delivery performance to meet agreed service levels with Divisions to support CRD/MPD improvement or plant delivery requirement. Monitor lane transit lead time performance and drive initiatives to support transportation planning and forecasting. Track and monitor regional transportation spend, identify deviations and drive corrective actions. Lead and participate in regional and global RFQ strategy, bid evaluation and implementation. Build internal routing guide. Ensure sites services requirements are fully met and achieve best‑in‑class results. Responsible to manage local and international forwarders transportation performance. Support and resolve escalation of service issues, including carrier capacity sourcing with forwarders. Support Division/Plant in equipment transfer and deliver equipment as per requirements. Develop processes that enable zero quality defects, share containment, and planned corrective actions. Drive continuous productivity improvements to improve cost and service quality in the region with internal and external partners, identify network optimization opportunities. Monitor market risk factors to identify potential risk impact service and proactively mitigate the issue. Responsible for transportation data quality for the region which include resolution of master data and reporting errors. Subject matter expertise in International Freight Forwarding and international trade operations. Engage with Divisions to be part of S&OPE and understand the footprint changes, mode mix changes and future BU development plans. Who You Are (Basic Requirements) Bachelor's Degree in Transportation, Logistics or Business preferred – Candidates with other degree specialization plus strong relevant industry experiences will be considered. 10+ years professional experience in supply chain, regional and global transportation, logistics operations. Working knowledge of Americas international transportation air, ocean, and other modes of transportation, as well as regional regulatory requirements. Experience in managing cross‑border logistics and customs processes. Ability to travel up to 25%, including internationally. What Will Put You Ahead Working in logistics/supply chain/transportation function within a manufacturing environment with a comprehensive knowledge of logistics processes and procedures. Proven project management experience to optimize and improve logistics processes. Skilled communicator with the ability to negotiate, influence and establish good relationships internally and externally. Excel in analytics and drive business transformation through economic thinking skills and quantitative decision‑making process. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E‑Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E‑Verify information click here, aqui, or tu). This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship or VISA transfer. #J-18808-Ljbffr