Regional Category Manager - Truck Transportation

The Company

Based at our N America headquarters in Roswell, GA (hybrid, 3 days in the office, 2 days remote), we are hiring a Category Manager for Truck Transportation. In this role, you will  lead trucking transportation in the region, which includes:

• Leadership over Truck Transportation mode

• Lead and consult in logistics-related areas, such as warehousing, intermodal transport, cost-to-serve modeling, TMS, software support, etc.

• Drive on-going improvements with major providers through Supplier Relationship Management process (SRM), including periodic meetings which include problem solving, cost reduction, maintenance objectives, plant shutdown support, etc.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead the transportation strategy for NA 

• Identify, manage and execute sourcing projects in transport-related areas within North America to drive down costs, optimize rates, reduce accessorial costs and ensure excellent, uninterrupted service to Imerys’ plant operations. 

• Collaborate directly with the business Supply Chain  and Operations leadership and teams to optimize overall logistics costs to the plants

• Based on direction from Group Energy Manager and Global Purchasing, follow and implement purchasing policy, category strategy/processes, and related purchasing and transportation management tools/software. 

• Act as a pulse check and voice of the internal customer (site manager/operations/supply chain leaders) to the ongoing category management approach of the Transportation category.

• Develop key regional supplier relationship management (SRM) program under the umbrella of global Purchasing SRM program, ensuring integration of these programs with the Business Area priorities.

• Manage associated regional contract, price application/control, periodic contract review (to quantify supplier performance)

Skills and Attributes Requirements:

• Established expertise in the broad transportation sector in North America (Truck), with an industrial emphasis; understands global transportation/logistics drivers.  

• Experience in leading regional projects based on category management concepts and group purchasing approach desired

• Extensive experience negotiating with providers for trucking transportation 

• Excellent, demonstrated collaboration and relationship-building skills required; relationships will be extensive

• Ability to collaborate with strong, defined technical resources, engineers and leaders, as well as plant operations leader

• Strong project management skills

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required

• 5 years’ advanced experience in transportation operations or purchasing, with direct experience in management of trucking transportation 

• Experience in leading regional projects based on category management concepts and Corporate purchasing approach, preferred

• Experience with bulk trucking, preferred

• Basic Excel/google sheets experience

• RFP experience preferred

• Approximately 10% travel 

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