Senior Transportation Specialist

Senior Transportation Specialist

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

This position is the process owner of the transport execution process, responsible for developing, monitoring, and improving standard work processes for the execution team and ensuring compliance to set standards.  The individual measures the performance and health of the execution process and is responsible for driving significant impact in cost, service, and process improvements for the transportation execution function. This position manages transport execution performance for KCNA, KCP, Global Non-Wovens, and inbound raw materials, making daily decisions that positively impact annual domestic transportation spend and ensure successful daily sales revenue recognition.

The Transportation Execution Senior Specialist serves as the subject matter expert in all transportation functions in SAP, Blue Yonder TMS, carrier EDI, all FourKites systems (Track & Trace, Dynamic Yard, Appointment Manager, and TracyAI).

In this role, you will:


* Monitor daily transportation metrics to identify and close gaps in performance of both people and process; Perform regular data analysis to propose improvement recommendations related to daily execution and visibility (track & trace) processes within transportation


* Develop and monitor process and robotic automation tools that will have a direct impact on business results. Embrace AI as a solution to drive improvements


* Provide informal work direction of the daily inbound and outbound execution analysts including the monitoring of automation tools to ensure effectiveness and results.


* Manage team training, data management, and deployment of cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives such as FourKites Visibility, Appointment Manger and Dynamic Yard, Maestro Control Tower, carrier EDI events, DPD, BlueYonder SmartBench, and others


* Influence both the short-term and long-term vision for Transportation execution


* Collaborates with customers both internal and external to provide expertise and guidance on transport execution tools and processes; Work at all levels of the organization to escalate and resolve issues that impact customer OTIF; including but not limited to, weather events, customer hyper-care liaison, holiday execution and other war-room activities


* Collaborate across departments with Order Management, Planning and Distribution COE’s to ensure “right first time” quality for customer and inter-company volume


* Analyze transp...