Senior Transportation Specialist

Senior Transportation Specialist

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

This position is the process owner of the transport execution process, responsible for developing, monitoring, and improving standard work processes for the execution team and ensuring compliance to set standards.  The individual measures the performance and health of the execution process and is responsible for driving significant impact in cost, service, and process improvements for the transportation execution function. This position manages transport execution performance for KCNA, KCP, Global Non-Wovens, and inbound raw materials, making daily decisions that positively impact annual domestic transportation spend and ensure successful daily sales revenue recognition. The Transportation Execution Senior Specialist serves as the subject matter expert in all transportation functions in SAP, Blue Yonder TMS, carrier EDI, all FourKites systems (Track & Trace, Dynamic Yard, Appointment Manager, and TracyAI).

In this role, you will:

• Monitor daily transportation metrics to identify and close gaps in performance of both people and process; Perform regular data analysis to propose improvement recommendations related to daily execution and visibility (track & trace) processes within transportation
• Develop and monitor process and robotic automation tools that will have a direct impact on business results. Embrace AI as a solution to drive improvements
• Provide informal work direction of the daily inbound and outbound execution analysts including the monitoring of automation tools to ensure effectiveness and results.
• Manage team training, data management, and deployment of cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives such as FourKites Visibility, Appointment Manger and Dynamic Yard, Maestro Control Tower, carrier EDI events, DPD, BlueYonder SmartBench, and others
• Influence both the short-term and long-term vision for Transportation execution
• Collaborates with customers both internal and external to provide expertise and guidance on transport execution tools and processes; Work at all levels of the organization to escalate and resolve issues that impact customer OTIF; including but not limited to, weather events, customer hyper-care liaison, holiday execution and other war-room activities
• Collaborate across departments with Order Management, Planning and Distribution COE’s to ensure “right first time” quality for customer and inter-company volume
• Analyze transportation data, processes, procedures and systems to ensure optimal cost, capacity and service across all shipments
• Develop and lead new-hire training and onboarding of all new transportation execution team members specifically related to TMS, Four Kites, and SAP systems. Ensures knowledge transfer and capability of all execution process requirements and skills
• Continuously monitor industry activity and conduct peer-to-peer benchmarking across the transportation space to ensure best-in-class performance; Provides operations team leader coverage when needed

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

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About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposef