Transportation Manager

Transportation Manager

Expand your professional career as a Transportation Manager with MAU’s client in Harvey, IL. As a Transportation Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring logistics operations, such as warehousing, inventory, transportation, and supply chain processes across all manufacturing facilities and regional distribution centers. This is a direct hire opportunity.

Our client is forging a future where their employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities are building better together – a future focused on serving the customer and powering and protecting the world. With a global network of manufacturing and distribution facilities worldwide, their company is a leading provider of electrical, safety, and infrastructure solutions.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain, or another relevant field (preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in a Logistics/Shipping management role
• Solid understanding of logistics and inventory management software
• Experience working with a distribution/manufacturing environment (strongly preferred)
• Strong business knowledge of Transportation Management System and/or JDE processes
• Advanced decision-making skills, with the ability to consider the relative cost and benefits of potential actions before deciding
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively negotiate with carriers, suppliers, custom brokers, and customers
• Ability to identify measures or indications of system performance that are relative to the goals of the system
• Capability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems
• Capability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Outstanding analytical, problem solving, and organization abilities

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Evaluate the efficiency of Logistics and Shipping procedures according to organizational objectives, and apply improvements
• Identify enhancement opportunities and suggest solutions for improvement to top management
• Translate business requirements into effective technical system solutions by presenting options based on best practices
• Initiate Logistics productivity and cost out projects
• Produce user documentation for applications standard work and training
• Construct and monitor transportation reporting metrics through Tableau
• Conduct cost analyses of transportation companies to select the best option that is cost-efficient and able to handle the shipment load
• Drive cost reduction through supply chain route optimization, mode conversion, and other means
• Maintain communications with carriers, suppliers, warehouses, custom brokers, and others involved in the shipping and delivery of our product offerings
• Develop and initiate monthly reports, having required project timelines, corporate metrics, and productivity measurements
• Maintain KPI metrics and analyze data to assess performance, and implement improvements within Logistics and Shipping Departments across all facilities

Who is MAU?

MAU Workforce Solutions is an innovative global company with extensive experience providing solutions for success in staffing, recruiting, technology and outsourcing to our clients, employees, and applicants. Headquartered in Augusta, GA since 1973, MAU is a family and minority-owned company offering better processes and better people to create efficiencies and greater profits for our clients. Our relationships with world-class companies, our training programs and our culture of family allow MAU to offer better results, better jobs, and better lives to those who work with us.

All Applicants must submit to background check and drug screening.

Disclaimer: This job description not designed to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and safety requirements required of the Transportation Manager position.

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