Transportation Manager
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** Transportation Manager**

Charlotte **About The Position**

**Meet the Smart Safety Company**

At **Safe Fleet** our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles and everyone in and around them safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the worlds biggest fleet safety problems.

**Work for the Smart Safety Company**

Preferred Location: Charlotte, NC; Greensboro, NC; Raleigh, NC; Durham, NC; Atlanta, GA; Chesapeake, VA; Norfolk, VA (Or ability to travel to Charlotte, NC, and other sites, frequently)

**?The Transportation Manager will be responsible for direct leadership of our Global Transportation initiatives. This role will own and lead transportation cost reduction initiatives, on-time delivery, partner performance and improve transportation relationships. This problem solver, influencer, and corporate leader will have a rich work history in Supply Chain and Logistics Management in a Global Manufacturing setting and will be as effective building consensus at the plant level as at the corporate level.**

**?Key Responsibilities:**

-Develop and Implement Global Transportation Strategy across Safe Fleet

* Implement Freight Consolidation Strategy from Overseas supplier locations

* Implement Domestic Transportation Strategy for North American Safe Fleet Plants and Suppliers

**Relationships:**

-Support Plant Operations and Logistics on critical transportation timelines and initiatives

-Provide information to management on specific objectives

-Develops, builds and maintains long term partnerships and relationships

**Measures of Performance:**

-Global Transportation Consolidation Savings X%

-Domestic Transportation Savings X%

**Required Education, Experience and Skills**

-Bachelors degree in Transportation, Supply Chain, Engineering or a similar field and 8+ years of supply chain experience, specifically in a transportation role with targeted work managing contract manufacturers

-Experience working with Global and Domestic Transportation Partners and systems

-Leadership across multiple functions as well as multiple facilities

-Experience using Lean Methodology processes in a manufacturing environment is a plus

-Database management, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills

-Coaching, mentoring and/or leadership experience a plus

-Good organization, project management and follow-through skills

-Ability to prioritize, multitask and act in a proactive manner

-ERP and Microsoft Excel experience

-Travel to vendor and Safe Fleet locations as required. Could exceed 50%

**At Safe Fleet, you are empowered to build a career that will take you where you want to go. You'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the tools necessary to achieve personal success. We offer a comprehensive compensation package, including Medical, Dental, 401K and excellent commission opportunities.**

We're a background check and pre-hire drug screen company where allowed by law.

*We do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry veteran status or any other status protected by law.