Intercompany Project Manager - Supply Chain

Duties :

• Job title : Customer Logistics Intercompany Project Manager   Reports to Global Logistics, ensuring strategic alignment across cross-functional teams, facilitating Intercompany vehicle utilization and shipment optimization.
• Leverages Power BI analytics to identify trends, underutilized nodes and lanes, and drive continuous improvement in Intercompany (ICO) Load Factor Metrics (LFM) , with a goal of improving baseline performance to an 80% vehicle utilization rate.
• Develops decision-support tools, including prioritization matrices, process maps, and implementation timelines to accelerate the rollout of load factor initiatives and inform site visit planning.
• Prepares and participates in onsite events including Distribution Centers and Manufacturing plants, Summits, Workshops, etc.
• Partners with Americas Domestic Transportation to ensure consistent operational execution of improvement plans at sites to drive measurable improvements in shipping efficiency.
• Owns cross-functional solution development with Planning, Packaging Engineering, and Business Supply Chain to resolve systemic issues beyond site-level operational controls for all USAC sites.
• Develop overall site-level target roadmap and execution plan to achieve 80 % load factor Tracks and reports site-level improvement activities, creating visibility into initiative progress and reinforcing accountability at Distribution Centers and Manufacturing plants.
• Optimizes Intercompany (ICO) Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) by partnering with Planning to align order patterns with transportation capacity and efficiency goals.
• Collaborates with DC technical and Packaging to implement standardized full layer / pallet configurations, increasing load stackability and minimizing shipping waste.
• Drives optimization of Intercompany (ICO) shipping schedules , working closely with Planning and IT to improve frequency, routing, and timing in alignment with load factor targets.
• Evaluates level-load planning concept on key international lane Collaborate with Planning, DC team, DA&A to identify and execute sustainable order quantity improvement roadmap Define overall load factor operating rhythm Continuously improves the Global Load Factor Playbook and RACI for Plant Manufacturing, Distribution Centers, and Area Logistics by developing and updating standardized methodologies to enhance vehicle efficiency, minimize shipment volume, and reduce transportation costs.
• Maintains and updates content within centralized Viva Engage Community; links, documents, events, and responding to inquiries and ideation sharing.
• Generates and distributes executive-level performance summaries that provide real-time visibility into global Intercompany (ICO) load factor metrics, shipment efficiency, and cost savings performance, tailored for site and regional leadership.
• Leads performance reviews with leadership to ensure accountability and realization of value-based logistics initiatives.
• Collaborates with Reporting & Operational Excellence team, and determines enhanced views and improves data quality in load factor PBI dashboard Set up governance procedures to maintain improvements, and create SOPs to document new standards Capabilities and Experience Logistics Experience – Customer Logistics, Logistics Packaging, Transportation and Transportation modes, Load Planning Logistics shipping efficiency project experience – Demonstrated successful implementation of logistics efficiency projects such as trailer utilization optimization, providing innovative logistics packaging solutions Project Leadership - Create structure and framework around project management with experienced project management and general PMO leadership.
• The project manager would focus on driving the plan, ensuring tasks were identified, assigned and on-track, escalating issues, arranging meetings, providing communications and summaries, coordinating site activities, etc.  The project leader would need to quickly establish the framework to manage and track the overall project.

There are multiple elements that need to align for our projects to be successful with a defined project structure and process.  Responsibilities would include but not limited to :