Vice President Logistics Jobs (NOW HIRING)

$175,000.00- $235,000.00+30% Bonus+ Generous 401K

Keys

• 10 years Logistics
• Contract Negotiations
• Varied Products Varied modes of Transport
• Data - KPI's, Pivot Tables
• Ability to Define/Re-Define Processes
• Hunger to Achieve
• Pittsburgh or available to spend time in Pittsburgh
• Travel 40%

The Vice President will lead the safe, reliable, and cost-effective movement of inbound supplier freight, intercompany materials and work-in-process, and outbound finished goods. The role will be responsible for company-operated fleet activities, third-party transportation, rail, freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, freight procurement, transportation technology, logistics performance management, and the governance of transportation terms and freight responsibilities.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline required.
• MBA, master's degree, or other advanced business, technical, or supply-chain degree preferred.
• Relevant professional certifications, such as APICS CSCP, ASCM CLTD, Certified Transportation Professional, or comparable credentials, are beneficial.

• Ten or more years of progressive experience in logistics, transportation, distribution, supply chain, or related operations leadership.
• At least seven years of senior leadership responsibility within a multi-site industrial, manufacturing, mining, steel, construction-products, heavy-materials, or similarly complex operating environment.
• Demonstrated success leading logistics across multiple businesses, facilities, regions, and operating models.
• Experience managing both company-operated fleet activities and third-party transportation providers.
• Strong working knowledge of truckload, less-than-truckload, dedicated fleet, rail, intermodal, freight forwarding, expedited transportation, warehousing, and distribution operations.
• Global logistics experience, including international transportation, freight forwarding, customs, and import/export activities.
• Demonstrated success negotiating major transportation, carrier, warehouse, brokerage, and third-party logistics agreements.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience managing logistics budgets, forecasts, cost models, capital investments, cost-to-serve analysis, freight accruals, and savings programs.
• Demonstrated record of delivering measurable EBITDA and total-landed-cost improvement through transportation sourcing, network optimization, fleet productivity, mode conversion, freight controls, and related value-creation initiatives.
• Proven ability to use data and KPI discipline to improve safety, customer service, productivity, cost, asset utilization, and working capital.
• Experience designing or optimizing distribution networks, transportation lanes, fleet structures, warehouse footprints, and shipment flows.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation, process standardization, technology implementation, acquisition integration, or significant organizational change.
• Familiarity with transportation management systems, warehouse management systems, fleet-management platforms, telematics, ERP systems, and business-intelligence tools.
• Advanced analytical skills and the ability to translate large, complex data sets into clear operating decisions and executive recommendations.
• Strong knowledge of applicable transportation safety, fleet, driver, customs, and trade-compliance requirements.
• Working knowledge of transportation terms, routing-guide governance, and Incoterms, with the ability to partner effectively with Procurement, Sales, Finance, and Legal on supplier and customer freight responsibilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with drivers, dispatchers, plant leaders, commercial teams, customers, suppliers, carriers, and executive leadership.

• Develop and execute an enterprise logistics strategy aligned with JENNMAR's growth plans, customer-service commitments, operating requirements, margin objectives, working-capital goals, and enterprise value-creation priorities.
• Lead and coordinate inbound, intercompany, and outbound logistics across company-operated fleet, dedicated and common carriers, rail, intermodal transportation, freight forwarding, expedited transportation, parcel services, warehousing, and distribution activities.
• Establish a common logistics operating model across JENNMAR and its affiliates, including standards for dispatch, routing, load planning, shipment tendering, tracking, delivery confirmation, freight settlement, claims, and exception management.
• Evaluate the economics and performance of JENNMAR's private fleet, including fleet size, utilization, maintenance, driver capacity, safety, backhaul opportunities, empty miles, equipment requirements, and owned-versus-outsourced transportation decisions.
• Optimize the logistics network by evaluating plant, supplier, warehouse, and customer flows; transportation modes; shipment consolidation; distribution locations; transfer activity; inventory positioning; direct-ship opportunities; and inbound-versus-supplier-controlled freight.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise carrier and logistics-provider strategy that ensures appropriate capacity, service, geographic coverage, commercial terms, and contingency support.
• Partner with Procurement and Legal to negotiate regional and enterprise agreements with carriers, rail providers, freight forwarders, brokers, warehouse operators, third-party logistics providers, and other logistics partners. Establish governance for transportation terms, freight responsibilities, routing instructions, and applicable Incoterms in supplier and customer agreements.
• Own the logistics budget, forecasting process, cost-reduction pipeline, capital requirements, and financial performance reporting. Provide clear visibility into transportation spend, cost-to-serve, freight recovery, and savings realization, and deliver measurable EBITDA improvement through freight productivity, network optimization, asset utilization, procurement leverage, and elimination of logistics waste.
• Strengthen freight accrual, payment, audit, accessorial, detention, demurrage, claims, and carrier-settlement controls to improve financial accuracy and eliminate avoidable costs.
• Establish an enterprise logistics dashboard and operating-review cadence covering safety, on-time pickup and delivery, freight cost, cost per shipment or ton, fleet utilization, empty miles, loaded miles, weight/cube utilization, backhaul performance, mode conversion, carrier performance, accessorial charges, claims, warehouse performance, and customer-service levels.
• Lead the logistics technology roadmap, including transportation management, warehouse management, fleet telematics, shipment visibility, route optimization, ERP integration, electronic freight documentation, and business-intelligence tools.
• Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of logistics data. Establish common definitions, reporting standards, master-data requirements, and accountability for data accuracy.
• Partners with Operations, Procurement, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Information Technology, Safety, and business-unit leaders to align logistics capacity with production plans, inventory requirements, customer commitments, and growth initiatives.
• Provide logistics leadership as part of the sales and operations planning process, including capacity planning, seasonal requirements, inventory deployment, transportation constraints, and service-risk identification.
• Lead the resolution of major customer-delivery issues, carrier disruptions, capacity shortages, weather events, labor constraints, and other logistics escalations.
• Develop business-continuity and contingency plans for critical transportation lanes, carriers, warehouses, suppliers, products, and customer locations.
• Ensure compliance with applicable transportation safety, fleet, driver, customs, import/export, recordkeeping, and international trade requirements.
• Support acquisition diligence and integration by evaluating logistics networks, transportation contracts, fleet assets, warehouse operations, systems, organizational capabilities, and synergy opportunities.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing logistics leadership team. Own logistics organizational design, including recommendations for centralized versus regional/site-level responsibilities. Clarify roles, decision rights, performance expectations, succession plans, talent requirements, and accountability across corporate, regional, and site-level logistics functions.
• Communicate logistics strategy, performance, risks, and investment requirements clearly to executive leadership and other internal and external stakeholders.