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Senior Manager, Global Transportation
Job Description
The Senior Manager- Global Transportation serves as an integral link enabling the Integrated Warehousing and Distribution (IWD) team to execute upon the transportation strategy while ensuring consistent and predictable delivery inbound to factories, across the Philips distribution network, and to our customers and patients.
Your role:
- Global transportation responsibilities for all modes of transport supporting the HPM business unit.
- Manage transportation carrier relationships and performance to ensure required service levels are met; lead monthly and quarterly performance reviews.
- Understanding customer and business unit transportation requirements to ensure necessary transportation models exist and are executed upon.
- Management of transportation and logistics forecasts necessary to support business tenders.
- Management and delivery of multiple global transportation projects simultaneously.
- Delivery of continuous improvement initiatives focused on performance and cost improvement as well as achieving sustainability targets.
- Keeping abreast of all geopolitical and labor developments and their impact on freight service/expense.
You’re the right fit if:
- You have a bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, logistics, operations management, or related industry, required.
- You’ve acquired 7+ years of experience in transportation management, logistics, or related fields w/ 5+ years of experience in leadership within a matrixed, cross functional, global, high-volume distribution organization.
- Your skills include thorough knowledge of transportation, logistics functions, management, competitive and leading- edge offerings in the regions, and strong functional knowledge of IS system including EDI, XML and other TMS enablers.
- You have demonstrated measurable experience with developing and implementing transformational change within a transportation leadership role with the ability to lead and develop a high-performing team.
About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won’t stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.
- Learn more about our business.
- Discover our rich and exciting history.
- Learn more about our purpose.
- Read more about our employee benefits.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.
Additional Information
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to one of the Philips hubs in Murrysville, PA, Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Nashville, TN, and Cambridge, MA.
How We Work At Philips
Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
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Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.
