Sr. Transportation Manager

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Position: North America, Sr. Transportation Manager

Location: Frederick, MD preferred.

Will consider other candidates from Greencastle, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, or Carlsbad, CA.

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 1st Shift

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work

As the Transportation Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for leading the Logistics and International Transportation and Trade support teams to ensure the efficient, timely and cost-effective movement of goods and products worldwide.

A Day In The Life

• Lead our Americas transportation and international trade team to ensure development and process enhancement.
• Develop reasonable logistics plans and initiate practical process improvements (PPI) supporting the customer and cost savings.
• Responsible for the international transportation trade documentation and shipping compliance.
• Improve standards for logistics cost accounting, adhering to financial budgets, and maintaining cost controls.
• Connect with internal customers accurately by responding to customer needs, coordinate and tackle any problems that may arise during logistics services.
• Develop departmental work plans, annual goals, and human resources plans, and lead team to complete work tasks.
• Optimize the company's logistics system to improve logistics efficiency, shorten transport cycles, etc.
• Manages and leads operational aspects of our transportation business
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Participates in cross-functional business process improvement activities as the need arises.
• Provides regional financial information (forecasting, reporting).
• Develops, mentors and evaluates (PMDs) Transportation & International Trade Team.
• Establish Goals for direct reports in accordance with company initiatives and vision.
• Provides support for customer issues related to shipments and projects.
• Identifies, develops and implements process improvement to improve overall efficiency and productivity of the transportation team.
• Drives digital supply chain initiatives to support operational efficiencies.
  
  

Keys To Success

Education, Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10 years or more of working experience in the logistics/transportation industry, with international logistics/transportation experience preferred.
• 5 years of experience in Sr Management - Having managers as direct reports.
• Proven experience of working collaboratively in global multi-function teams and ability to cross between roles effectively.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Familiar with logistics/transportation operation processes, storage management, etc., and basic knowledge of supply chain management and logistics system optimization.
• Strong business sensitivity, excellent logical thinking, data analysis ability, and team collaboration awareness.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and problem-solving abilities, as well as outstanding interpersonal relationship management skills.
• Ability to assess situations to figure out importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization and the customer.
• Requires ability to develop strong customer leadership skills; proactively anticipates, understands, and responds to the needs of clients to meet or exceed their expectations.
  
  

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Must be able to use a computer for up to 8 hours per day.
• 10 - 25% Travel, as needed.
  
  

Compensation And Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Maryland is $110,500.00–$165,700.00.

This Position May Also Be Eligible To Receive a Variable Annual Bonus Based On Company, Team, And/or Individual Performance Results In Accordance With Company Policy. We Offer a Comprehensive Total Rewards Package That Our U.S. Colleagues And Their Families Can Count On, Which Includes

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
  
  

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

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