Job Details:
Job Title: Global Transportation Manager
Duration: 36 months contract
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
Domain: Business Professional
Internal Job ID25-38043
Shift: General Shift
Description:
- Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in logistics or transportation, with a strong preference for those who have managed supplier or vendor relationships directly and maintained stable tenure in past roles.
- While experience in pharma or biotech is a plus, candidates from consumer goods or other logistics-heavy industries are also welcome.
- Candidates should be proficient in Excel for data analysis and trend identification; experience with Transportation Management Systems (TMS) is a plus, and familiarity with SAP TMS is helpful but not required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as this role involves frequent interaction with suppliers, internal stakeholders, and customers.
- The Transportation Specialist (Global Transportation Manager) is responsible for acting as the Global Transportation Manager for a specified region (EMEA or Americas).
- This role involves leading supplier relationships for appointed Transportation Service Providers, ensuring on-track performance for suppliers in scope.
- The specialist will develop, implement, maintain, and monitor best-in-class, cost-effective, and GDP-compliant transportation strategies and solutions, either individually or through Global Distribution Hubs.
- Continuous improvement principles are applied while designing, implementing, and sustaining distribution solutions as part of Global Transportation Excellence.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor degree preferably in logistics or engineering/extensive industry experiences
- 5+ years experience in logistics, supply chain, cold chain, and/or transportation expertise
- Solid experience in project management across departments and geographies
- Experience managing suppliers and improving processes
- Quick process understanding, insight, and visualizing
- Ability to use data to deliver insights and identify course of action
- Fluent in English, both in verbal and written communication
- Strong analytical skills (incl. MS Excel) and ability to distill insights
- Independent self-starter, able to work autonomously, under pressure, and in teams
- Natural relationship builder in which Company's interests prevail: be soft on the relationship when possible and be tough when needed
- Result focused and proven ability to deliver results
- Motivated, persistent, eager to optimize, drive for excellence
- Strong relational, negotiating, and persuasion skills
- Problem solver with high sense of responsibility
- Strong communication and presentation skills (verbal & written)
- Oversee processes beyond own department
Preferred Requirements
- GMP and GDP knowledge
- Knowledge of Operational Excellence tools, six sigma, FMEA
- Experience in TMS (eg SAP TM) and BW
- Experience setting up service level agreements
- Good technical writing skills
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in MS Excel, are essential for distilling insights from data and identifying courses of action.
- Project Management: Solid experience in project management across departments and geographies is crucial for managing multiple assignments and processes independently and concurrently.
- Relationship Management: Natural relationship-building skills are necessary to maintain excellent relationships with third parties and internal stakeholders, ensuring Company's interests prevail.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Perform regular performance and business reviews with supply chain partners on current business, escalations, reporting and improvements.?
- Act as key contact for allocated GTX carrier, partnering with the third party to deliver responsive and effective supplier relationships?
- Support internal stakeholders in escalating issues to supply chain partners by maintaining excellent relationships with third parties on appropriate management level?
- Identify and drive improvements from data provided by SAP TM system?
- Be the subject matter expert for Transportation and related GDP topics for Americas region
- Document and maintain procedures for the effective transportation of Company's products from source to customer. ?
- Initiate and lead projects related to GTX activities, aimed at enhanced compliance, improved service and increased efficiencies?
- Support investigations into transportation related incidents including root cause investigation and definition of corrective and preventative (CAPA), to further mitigate risk?
- Drive closure of CAPA and business cases in the area of transportation compliance together with compliance, third party suppliers and GTX colleagues?
- Awareness of industry trends and developments in logistics including updating and education of internal stakeholders and departments?
- Support in audits and respond to audit requests with GTX carrier related topics for Americas region
- Knowledgeable on (country) regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical distribution as well as guidelines and business requirements.?
- Establish, maintain and improve relevant KPIs and performance statistics?.
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