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.

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