What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Domestic Transportation position at TWU-Center for Women Entrepreneurs?
Preferred Qualifications
Leads and develops strategy for freight function. Develops negotiation strategies and manages carrier relationships. Ensures customer requirements are met with minimal service disruption.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities, And Key Accountabilities
We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.
Equal Employment Opportunity
HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- 4 years of domestic transportation management experience across Truckload (TL), LTL, intermodal, and multimodal networks.
- Experience managing third-party carriers, including oversight of carrier performance, transportation spend, service metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Advanced analytical capabilities with proficiency in SQL/Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI, Excel, and AI-powered analytics tools, leveraging data to drive actionable business insights and operational improvements.
- Proven people leadership experience coaching and developing analyst-level team members, building high-performing teams through accountability, mentorship, and continuous development
- Experience leading teams through organizational change and business transformation, driving accountability, alignment, and performance amid evolving priorities.
Leads and develops strategy for freight function. Develops negotiation strategies and manages carrier relationships. Ensures customer requirements are met with minimal service disruption.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities, And Key Accountabilities
- Oversees the selection of transportation related carriers, researching, qualifying and sourcing vendors.
- Ensures carriers meet company needs and standards through evaluating carrier coverage areas, service levels, financial history and pricing.
- Manages transportation service levels as a liaison between locations and core carriers, evaluating use of approved and non-authorized carriers to ensure maximum service levels.
- Represents company needs through analyzing and negotiating contracts with carriers.
- Directs the integration of acquired companies to ensure compliance with company needs and standards.
- Generates reports on productivity, cost, service, savings, benchmarking, compliance, roll-out schedules and carrier metrics.
- Maintains and enhances TMS functionality. Monitors TMS compliance and low cost carrier usage.
- Solutions require analysis and investigation.
- Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.
- Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.
Equal Employment Opportunity
HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.