YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Transportation Manager, are to: 

• Collaborate with Product Supply to execute strategies that enable achievement of monthly, quarterly, and yearly shipping and reverse logistics targets at defined service levels;
• Be responsible for the transportation process to customer, including returns, dock capacity, carrier selection, ensuring operations in a safe and compliant manner that meet both customer and commercial needs;
• Manage transportation costs, monitoring of KPIs, metrics and expenses to ensure adherence to budgets and targets;
• Develop distribution tactics and contingency plans to ensure success of the delivery season;
• Influence delivery acceptance, delivery scheduling and monitor carrier scorecard for continuous improvement;
• Be responsible for coordinating training related to Transportation processes, including third parties;
• Respond timely to customer feedback and quality of service cases and engage appropriate parties when needed to ensure prompt resolution;
• Proactively develop and recommend process improvements in support of organizational strategy, initiatives and goals;
• Develop and maintain SLAs for assigned area of responsibility;
• Define and track key performance indicators and metrics relative to SLA;
• Manage the carrier capacity/fleet within the assigned brand(s);
• Partner with procurement when required to increase/decrease carrier capacity, and assist with Seed carrier recruitment;
• Ensure transportation processes are standard and in compliance with internal guidelines, documented and evergreen;
• Maintain documented procedures and processes for critical transportation operations.
   

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree;
• At least six years of experience in Supply Chain;
• Competent in customer focus, results orientation, collaboration, agility, conflict management, decision making, and strong communication;
• Knowledge of IT systems and tools (e.g. TMS, SAP, WMS, SalesForce);
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications;
• Working knowledge of regulations impacting daily operations (DOT hours of service, hazardous materials);
• Ability to travel away from St. Louis 10% of time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering, Business or related field;
• Heavy transportation experience;
• Knowledge of IT systems and tools, such as jda.