National Freight Distribution Manager

3 weeks ago


Mississauga, Canada Kuehne+Nagel Full time

We are looking for a National Freight Distribution Manager for our Contract Logistics division based in Mississauga.
- ** Your Role **:Reporting to the Director of Transportation you will ensure cost effectiveness; industry compliance; business development; customer satisfaction; coaching and leading the team towards goals. As a National Manager you will support our transportation strategy, managing budgets, promoting company culture and providing vision for the team. As a National Manager you will provide support for all Transportation management functions to ensure cost control, information flow and will help develop Transportation initiatives. Collaborate with regional operations management and cross functional teams to ensure proposed projects match operational capabilities and oversees integration of strategic plans. You will be responsible for Transportation's financial performance against our goals; the full continuous improvement strategy for the department, while managing over 30 carrier relationships both Inbound and Outbound, ensuring cost effectiveness and industry compliance.
- ** Your Responsibilities**:

- Management responsibility of National Contract Distribution (FD).
- Key responsibilities to manage the Pricing, Integration & Implementation, Operations & administration teams.
- Direct staff supervision, cost management, on-time service performance, engagement with carriers, and financial management within the respective teams.
- Review current transportation operations to develop and implement processes for efficient and optimised department productivity, product quality and customer satisfaction.
- Support the operational integration of newly acquired clients
- Plan & action rate requests; Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quote (RFQ) to ensure completion
- Use specific knowledge of the logistics market, trends and capabilities to identify areas for cost reduction and savings opportunities.
- Manage, visit and challenge vendors to seek out new ideas ensuring efficient, reliable and cost-effective relationships.
- Measure adherence of performance to service standards and look for ways to improve customer satisfaction with service offerings.
- Lead process-improvement projects, efforts and drive cross-functional teams to enhance customer experience. Help guide objective decisions based on the benefit to the entire network and business processes. (Visibility, KPI
- Development, QBR formats).
- Support in identifying and pursuit of new business opportunities.
- Ensure Compliance with Kuehne + Nagel's QSHE requirements, including all relevant regulations and Good
- Manufacturing Practices (GMP) guidelines for drugs and health products (where applicable).
- Develop product roadmap following industry best practice.
- P&L responsibility for Business Unit.
- Participate and support all Transportation related projects.

If you require an accommodation for the recruitment /interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

**Your Skills and Experiences**:

- 10+ years of Transportation Management Experience overseeing commercial carriers and Transportation Operations.
- Senior management experience; ability to bring value through strategic collaboration with a senior leadership team
- Must have experience managing transportation spend of $60M+.
- Experience with Transportation Management Systems and Fleet Operations.
- Experience with Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- University Degree and CITT or CCLP designation
- Experience managing rate negotiations and transport data accuracy.

**Good Reasons to Join **:We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs and a highly dynamic global work environment. Kuehne+Nagel’s general working model is a hybrid model depending on the job location, function, etc. The working schedule specific details will be discussed in your job interview. Kuehne+Nagel reserves the right to change or adjust the working model policy.**About Kuehne+Nagel***

With over 79.000 employees at some 1,300 locations in over 100 countries, the Kuehne+Nagel Group is one of the world’s leading logistics companies.

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