Vice President, Enterprise Logistics

Job Description

Job Description

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

JENNMAR is a global provider of engineered products and services supporting mining, tunneling, civil construction, OEM manufacturing, renewable energy, steel, ventilation, and other critical infrastructure markets. The company designs and manufactures ground-support and control products through a broad network of affiliated businesses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution locations. 

JENNMAR’s logistics capabilities include a company-operated trucking fleet, rail transportation, warehousing, and the movement of raw materials, supplies, and finished products between plants, suppliers, distribution points, and customer locations. The logistics organization is central to JENNMAR’s ability to deliver products safely, efficiently, and on time.

POSITION SUMMARY:

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

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 throughout JENNMAR’s manufacturing and distribution network. 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.

This executive will establish a consistent logistics operating model across businesses and locations, improve on-time delivery and customer responsiveness, reduce total landed cost, strengthen freight controls and visibility, and build a scalable logistics platform capable of supporting JENNMAR’s continued growth. The role is expected to deliver measurable enterprise value through logistics productivity, network optimization, asset utilization, procurement leverage, working capital improvement, and the elimination of avoidable freight costs.

Enterprise Scope: Responsibility for approximately $80+ million of annual transportation and logistics spend across a global footprint and a company domestically operated fleet of approximately 43 power units. Final scope metrics to be confirmed by JENNMAR.

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:

• Fifteen 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. 
• Ability to travel extensively to JENNMAR manufacturing, distribution, supplier, carrier, and customer locations. 

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. 

FIRST 12 MONTH PRIORITIES :

1. Establish the enterprise baseline. Complete a current-state assessment of JENNMAR’s logistics network, organization, fleet, warehouses, transportation providers, systems, contracts, service performance, total logistics spend, inbound/intercompany/outbound flows, and freight-term ownership.
2. Create performance visibility. Implement a common logistics KPI dashboard and executive review cadence covering safety, service, cost, fleet productivity, empty miles, load utilization, backhauls, carrier performance, claims, accessorials, freight controls, and customer delivery.
3. Address the highest-priority risks. Identify the top five logistics risks affecting safety, customer service, capacity, cost, and business continuity, and implement corrective action plans. 
4. Define the transportation strategy. Develop a clear private-fleet, common-carrier, rail, brokerage, warehousing, and expedited-freight strategy by region, business, and major transportation lane. 
5. Capture near-term savings and EBITDA improvement. Identify and execute opportunities in contract consolidation, mode conversion, shipment consolidation, backhauls, route optimization, load utilization, accessorial reduction, freight audit, inbound freight control, and network design.
6. Standardize critical processes. Establish common requirements for freight tendering, shipment tracking, delivery confirmation, freight accruals, invoice approval, claims administration, carrier scorecards, and customer escalations. 
7. Build the future-state roadmap. Define the logistics organization and centralized-versus-local operating model, talent requirements, system architecture, data model, governance structure, and investment priorities needed to support continued growth.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIATE WILL BE:

• A hands-on logistics executive who can move effectively between frontline operating details and enterprise-level strategy. 
• Direct, practical, and metrics-driven, with the ability to establish accountability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. 
• Highly customer-focused, understanding that logistics performance directly affects customer operations, safety, and trust. 
• A strong relationship builder who can lead across businesses, functions, geographies, and different operating cultures. 
• A decisive change leader who can simplify complexity, prioritize competing demands, and drive execution through ambiguity. 
• Commercially and financially minded, with a clear understanding of how logistics decisions affect margin, cash flow, working capital, and enterprise value. 
• Calm and resilient under pressure, particularly during customer escalations, capacity disruptions, weather events, or other adverse operating conditions. 
• A leader of high integrity and low ego who develops talent, builds trust, and creates sustainable organizational capability. 

*Excellent benefits include medical with a standard PPO plan with deductibles as low as $1,500 and wellness credit up to $750; voluntary 401k plan with company match up to 12%; voluntary dental and vision plans; free telemedicine services; basic life and short-term disability coverage. 

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