Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Manager Transportation Performance is a key in-house strategy execution role for an organized, passionate, goal-oriented, visionary leader who understands the challenges and the opportunities of a wide supply chain and transportation network. The primary focus of this position is to drive excellence in Mexico transportation network. This role implements the vision and strategy for transportation programs, systems and processes required to define and support the company’s current and future distribution and supply chain requirements.
The candidate should be capable of driving business transformation, streamlining operations, and building new solutions to simplify processes and deliver on strategic objectives.
Consecutively, the team initiates, manages and drives improvement programs. To measure success, the team defines new metrics and KPIs and tracks the delivery of intended results and where necessary, takes on further corrective actions.
- Identify gaps and improvement opportunities in the network, systems, and processes.
- Accordingly, deliver a tactical / strategical improvement plan to streamline operations, processes, and systems, essentially to deliver better value for the business.
- Lead and execute transportation improvement projects, improve processes and methods to generate higher value, efficacy, and efficiency.
- Run workshops, analysis, tenders, qualitative and quantitative workshops for brainstorming and idea generation.
- Deliver and manage major projects and change initiatives in Mexico network (DCs, Key Cities, Stores, Launches)
- Enable new services to provide convenience and choice to our customers.
- Develop standard operating procedures and metrics to achieve business results and drive continuous improvement in all aspects of transportation across the company.
- Ensure proper communication and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Follow and measure daily performance of carriers, find gaps and prepare an improvement plan together with DC outbound team, carriers and others key stakeholders.
- Improve overall transportation KPIs (OTIF, Speed, Sustainability and cost) for our omnichannel business (ecomm, retail and wholesale)
- Lead IT initiatives and project related to transportation.
- Optimize the transportation network for better cost, service, speed and reliability.
- Drive the sustainability vision of the company for the whole network.
- Take part in quarterly and annual budgeting process along with Supply Chain Finance
- Be customer centric in everything we do, owning the delivery experience by enhancing consumer preference and convenience options.
- Build up transportation metrics and track performance, lead improvement agendas.
- Define and deliver cost saving initiatives to optimize our 3 Mios Euro annual transportation spend.
- Lead B2B and B2C tender process with Global Procurement
- Prepare and run transportation tender processes.