Manager Transportation Performance

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 Colombia 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.
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 in both inland and last mile.- 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 Colombia 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.
- Key Relationships:
- Initiate and drive discussions with cross-functional internal stakeholders, as well as external partners; to collect and consolidate input, issues, feedback, and insights to prepare, plan, align and deliver solutions.
- Deliver execution of the aligned tactical / strategic initiatives
- Proactively manage stakeholders, build relationships, and manage communication.
- Stakeholders can relate (but not limited) to the following core functions:

- Colombia Supply Chain Management (all functions)
- Colombia Market (all functions)
- External partners (carriers, solution providers and consultants)
- Global Operations (Global Transportation, Procurement. Digital, Strategy and IT)
- Corporate functions (e.g., legal, finance & performance management)
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Soft skills:
- Thinks Big and has a bias for action. Expected to be creative, to plan, shine and deliver.
- End-to-end mindset with a holistic view of problems and opportunities on hand
- Has backbone, develops and constructively communicates his/her opinion, not scared to disagree, and yet commit. Seeks ‘the best for the business’ always in mind.
- Solution builder with a creative mind and solid experience in delivering results.
- Possess constant quest for innovative improvement, rigor, excellent relational capacities for managing diverse stakeholders with erratic interests of their own.
- Highly self-motivated and acts like an ‘owner.’
- Earns trust, both of his/her team and internal/external stakeholders. Does what he/she says in due time, and dares to say ‘No’ when required so
- Engaging, open and perceptive to feedback and improvement
- Autonomous and capable of handling all-way communication (upward, lateral and downward)
- Change management skills, influencing a network of internal and external stakeholders.
- Solid presentation and storytelling skills
- Discipline in planning, time management and organization skills
- Hard skills:
- Expertise on parcel carrier and last mile network, with suppliers, services, and consumer preferences
- Working experience with a Transportation Management and Optimization syst