Sourcing Manager - Transportation

Job Summary

The Sourcing Manager for the Transportation Sourcing organization will serve as a key partner between Sourcing and Operations to collaborate and execute strategies that deliver the business improvements year-over-year.  This role is designed to facilitate strong relationships, drive strategic initiatives, with a stronghold of project management, empowering with a high degree of ownership and accountability. The successful candidate will be a relationship builder, a data-driven decision-maker, an execution expert of projects, and a continuous improvement advocate for our supply base and operations.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Act as a strategic liaison between Sourcing, Operations, and traffic managers to align transportation strategies with broader business goals.
• Lead and manage cross-functional sourcing projects with clear timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external logistics providers, including 4PLs, to ensure alignment and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using root cause counter measure mindset to influence teaming, enhancing service levels, reducing costs, and optimizing transportation performance.
• Establish and monitor data, metrics, and KPIs to evaluate provider performance and ensure compliance with contractual terms and strategy.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and operational excellence across all levels of the enterprise.
• Develop a clear calendar, cadence, and content for communication, alignment, and coordination between functional counterparts across all levels of the enterprise.
• Lead and manage cross-functional sourcing projects with clear timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement.
• Build capability to develop and influence category strategies and tactics to execute, including market tests, competitive bidding, cost models, and negotiations.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, Logistics, Engineering or a related business field.

• Multi-faceted minimum 5 years’ business experience with Customers, Operations, Sourcing, Sales, Supply Chain, Transportation, Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, facilitate meetings with 5-why philosophy and manage complex projects through collaboration, influence, negotiations, relationship management, planning, and execution.
• Experience with project plan management tools (i.e., Gantt charts, RACI, timelines).
• Skilled in facilitating meetings internally and externally collaboration, influence, negotiations, relationship management, planning, execution.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with a focus on results and execution.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive change in a matrixed environment.
• Strong knowledge of business and long-term strategic goals, with customer service orientation.

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