Senior Transportation Strategy & Development Manager

Senior Manager Of Transportation Strategy & Development

The Senior Manager Of Transportation Strategy & Development is responsible for leading the design and execution of the company's transportation strategy. This role will drive the development of organizational structures, processes, capabilities, and ways of working that deliver sustainable cost efficiency while achieving required service levels. Serving as a transformational leader, this individual will champion innovation and ensure that transportation solutions are aligned with broader business objectives. The scope spans all modes of transportationincluding over-the-road, ocean, bulk, and railboth domestically and internationally. Additionally, the role will be accountable for optimizing the balance between leveraging external carriers and 3PL providers versus making direct internal investments.

Responsibilities include :

• Develop and implement long-term transportation strategies that align with overall supply chain and company objectives, driving new projects, technologies, capabilities, and processes to optimize transportation costs while ensuring the required service levels.
• Partner with senior leaders to identify future capability needs and develop business cases and project plans to close any gaps.
• Lead Logistics development projects and represent Logistics in the end-to-end transformational projects, including network design and cost to serve.
• Evaluate current Logistics processes and identify opportunities for improvement, automation and digitalization, including AI.
• Manage relationships with Logistics technology partners, identifying emerging technologies and digital solutions, securing the deployment of required Logistics capabilities.
• Identify skill development needs and implement a plan to strengthen at least one skill set annually. Ensure direct reports receive constructive performance feedback and have actionable development plans in place.
• Utilize My Career to determine training needs and identify curriculum, programs and content to prepare for career opportunities within the company. Provide feedback to manager regarding learning opportunities.
• Maintain a high level of organization, productivity, and effectiveness by leveraging the PPT system to enhance planning and organization and using KPIs to drive focus on the right activities.

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Preferred qualifications :

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Culture and benefits :

A career at Sazerac offers you the opportunity to reach your full potential as part of a creative, decisive, high-performance team. Sazerac values the needs and wants of our team members and offers inclusive benefits to attract and retain the best talent. Our culture is built upon the values of hard work, diligence and personal responsibility.

Sazerac team members enjoy :

Benefits, salary range, and programs may vary by role or location. For roles within our commercial team - the salary range refers to base salary only and does not include car allowance, annual bonus, fuel or cell phone reimbursement. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package. Sazerac is committed to equality of opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.

Min : USD $138,411.20 / Yr.

Max : USD $207,616.80 / Yr.