Job Summary
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.
Nature and Scope
- 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.
Work Environment
- 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.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Education and Experience
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.
Our Goals for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
HD Supply is one of the largest industrial distributors in North America. Our industry-leading businesses provide a broad range of products, services and solutions to professional customers in the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO), infrastructure, and non-residential and residential construction markets.
