Logistics Manager, Air Handling Units

Logistics Manager, Air Handling Units

Scope:

Responsible for leading/managing Transportation related activities in/out of the five AHU/IR facilities, and as well supporting the various business teams with multiple transportation related requests (i.e., quoting, project management, carrier management, claims administration, transportation analysis, financial outlooks and month end analysis, etc.).

In addition, within this workload this position is responsible for creating the CI work streams and working with the necessary resources to ensure actions are being made to bring those ideas to fruition. This role is a balance between tactical and strategic management, as the expectation of this role would be to create a strategic plan spanning 12-24 months out, and then working to implement the plan. The work will include at times stepping in and supporting the plants, materials, procurement, and the transportation team with tactical support. The scope of freight management responsibility is plus $25M.

Principal Duties:

• Collaborate with finance to create the freight profit plan and forecasts throughout the year.
• Accountable for creating bridges and business analysis on financial freight performance against plan/forecasting for each month. This position will be responsible for presenting freight performance monthly to leadership, and as well proving recovery plans when performance is falling short of expectations.
• Direct plant contact to address freight related questions, and this would include as an example working directly with plants to solve transportation related issues.
• Conduct/lead CI workshops with the plants, procurement, transportation support team, and transportation partners. The outcome from these workshops will be part of the CI commitment loaded into the Profit Plan/forecasts.
• Implement standard plant/carrier KPI’s for both PBU’s for Transportation. In addition, the expectation is that we action activities leading to improvement from what the KPI’s are saying.
• Responsible for all daily resolution of customer, internal & external, transportation issues along with development of documented standard operational procedures as needed to address service failures.

• Foster daily collaboration between JCI internal business partners, Transportation providers, OTM team, and plants.
• Active role and support of procurement in annual issuance of freight RFQ’s (i.e., ensuring accurate data is passed on to procurement, and as well, execution of changes from RFQ’s).
• Provide analytical support for projects, freight management, new business opportunities and proposals.
• Reviews, questions and approves/denies carrier charges to reduce expenses. Collaborate with finance to create the freight profit plan and forecasts throughout the year.
• Accountable for creating bridges and business analysis on financial freight performance against plan/forecasting for each month. This position will be responsible for presenting freight performance monthly to leadership, and as well proving recovery plans when performance is falling short of expectations.
• Reviews, questions and approves/denies carrier changes to reduce expenses.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management or related Logistics field
• Extensive flat bed experience
• Strong IT skills.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in Transportation, Supply Chain or Logistics Management
• Thorough knowledge of logistics industry including distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, import/export, and supply chain management
• Demonstrated success in change management and organization transformation within a performance-oriented organization
• Strong analytical skills with process orientation

• Ability to influence without authority

• Strong program management skills and ability to balance competing priorities

• Ability to think on an enterprise level and be forward looking.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal and visual communications.

• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

• Knowledgeable in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions, policies and procedures and change management methods

Travel:

Travel 10%

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