Manager, Transportation - Performance & Procurement

What Transportation contributes to Cardinal Health

The US Transportation Department is critical to Cardinal Health’s distribution operations, ensuring the smooth and efficient movement of goods, and services ultimately impacting patient care. It plays a key role in supply chain management by coordinating the transport of finished products, ensuring delivers are on time, and providing support to operational projects. Transportation helps control costs through budgeting and negotiating favorable contracts with carriers. Cardinal Health continues to adopt sustainable transportation practices to reduce environmental impact.

The Transportation Performance & Procurement team is responsible for all commercial carrier activity throughout the supply chain within the Medical Segment at Cardinal Health. From a performance standpoint, they oversee all logistics supplier management, ensuring carriers are meeting KPI’s through corrective actions, hosting QBR’s and maintain strong relationships with the DC’s support team. From a Procurement standpoint, they ensure the carrier capacity is meeting the business demands, all while keeping in mind the cost and performance impact. They host RFPs, maintaining a strong understanding of both market intelligence and business requirements to ensure achieving best carrier and rates.

Responsibilities

• Manage a medium size team managing performance and procurement of all modes, TL, LTL, IM, Parcel & Courier
• Build, enable, and drive multi-year strategy for procurement utilizing market intelligence and understanding business needs
• Leads the development of contracts and business rules to ensure carriers are adhering to service level expectations
• Ensure the team is maintaining performance KPI’s, holding QBR’s with carrier base and enacting corrective actions where necessary
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align on business requirements for transportation to fulfill customer expectations
• Develop and grow team to continuously improve and innovate how the transportation space is being managed
• Drive results through looking through data and developing trends amongst different shipping tendencies
• Collaborate cross-functionally and liaise with internal and/or external stakeholders, including senior leaders 

Qualifications

• BA, BS or equivalent experience in related field preferred
• Advance Degree is desired
• 8-12 years of experience preferred
• Supply Chain Certification (i.e. APICS) preferred
• Extensive Truckload, Intermodal, and LTL domestic transportation background
• Strong Parcel transportation background
• Working knowledge of logistics management technologies
• Experience with SAP preferred
• Experience with SQL, Alteryx, Tableau preferred
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, front line supervisors and/or business support staff
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Ensures employees operate within guidelines
• Decisions have a short term impact on work processes, outcomes and customers
• Interacts with subordinates, peers, customers, and suppliers at various management levels; may interact with senior management
• Interactions normally involve resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
• Gains consensus from various parties involved

Anticipated salary range: $86,400 - $129,570

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Un-tracked time off
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 10/12/24 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

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Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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