Transportation Director jobs in Atlanta, GA

Transportation Director directs, develops, and implements overall operations of a transportation network including safety, compliance, equipment, and staff. Develops and directs operational policies and procedures to ensure safety and efficiency in all transportation activities. Being a Transportation Director monitors transportation costs, service level agreements, and performance metrics to identify and resolve problems and achieve efficiencies. Partners with internal and external stakeholders to forecast and meet capacity needs. Additionally, Transportation Director oversees the acquisition and oversight of transportation providers. Requires a bachelor's degree in logistics, transportation, supply chain management, or equivalent. Typically reports to top management. The Transportation Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Transportation Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Director of Transportation
  • sugar foods corporation
  • Villa Rica, GA OTHER
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    Overview:

    The Director Transportation is responsible for managing all aspects of transportation from coordination of the day-to-day transportation operations to directing major projects. This would include creating reporting, establishing metrics (KPI’s), and improving transportation management practices by supporting transportation procurement processes and creating strong operational processes and controls around the movement of inventory.  Working cross functionally with other areas, most notably our internal fleet, is a requirement for success in this role. 

    This role requires one to be very familiar with Oracle Transportation Management (OTM Cloud).   The role will need to optimize the existing systems the company has as well as identify potential other systems that the company should implement.  

    This role requires the ability to coordinate outbound shipment arrival with internal and external parties and to ensure data alignment across our systems and partner’s platform to drive process improvement by partnering with transportation providers and internal parties. Finally, this position plays a critical role ensuring that the operations group meets or exceeds customer needs and business objectives. No task is too big or too small if it supports driving customer satisfaction and business requirements.

    Qualifications

     

    • Related Work Experience: 5 years of work experience in the transportation or relevant related field

     

    • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field and at least 5 years of experience in Business Management positions, including a minimum of 2 years managing analysts, planners and professional-level or hourly staff

     

    • Project Management experience, either formal training, or multiple years of project management leadership with the ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully

     

    • Previous ownership of carrier/supplier relationships and processes

     

    • Experience in directly negotiating with transportation/logistics vendors, specifically with domestic truck carriers (LTL, FTL)

     

    • Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills, along with the ability to leverage data to develop business insights, identify trends and support management decision making

     

    • 3-5 years’ experience with Oracle OTM TMS planning & execution, along with OTM freight audit & payment

     

    • 2-3 years’ transportation planning experience leveraging FourKites is a strong plus.

     

    • Solid systems aptitude: knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Office applications, with emphasis on Excel (Pivot tables / VLOOKUPS) and Access

     

    • Strong customer service experience: a demonstrated ability to interface with customers, carriers, and internal warehouse leadership

     

    • Experience in companies who have their own fleet is a plus. 

     

    • Self-motivated and an ability to take initiative in a dynamic & fast pace environment

     

    Responsibilities

     

    • Ensure all transportation software tools are fully optimized and standardized across the organization

     

    • Optimize (balance) service and costs, making difficult decisions and resolving operational and customer issues.

     

    • Challenge the status quo by identifying productivity opportunities, articulating (project plan) the ROI, and driving and implementing change

     

    • Develop OTM strategic plan to ensure OTM generated optimization/execution plans are consistently above 85%; mitigate and eliminate manual planning via tribal knowledge

     

    • Develop FourKites strategic plan targeting 90% implementation across common carriers and internal fleet

     

    • Develop standardized carrier performance metrics to measure carrier performance impacting transportation effectiveness

     

    • Manage and drive the execution of projects from inception to completion 

     

    • Monitor and formally report upon expected results of initiatives

     

    • Drive process improvements across technology providers, internal teams, and carriers (i.e., OTM, FourKites)

     

    • Quarterly network modeling refinement recommendations

     

    • Develop, implement and maintain an effective track & trace model working closely with the buying, customer care and Fleet teams.

     

    • Manage a transportation spend of $80MM

     

    • Manage a team of 3 transportation analysts and planners

     

    • Freight payment and cost analysis

     

    • Create and maintain transportation shipment data and metrics (KPI’s)
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Deputy Director of Transportation
  • City of Roswell
  • Roswell, GA FULL_TIME
  • City of Roswell, Georgia www.roswellgov.com/jobs JOB DESCRIPTION To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommod...
  • 10 Days Ago

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Deputy Director of Transportation
  • City of Roswell, Georgia
  • Roswell, GA FULL_TIME
  • City of Roswell, Georgia JOB DESCRIPTION PLEASE GO TO www.roswellgov.com/jobs TO APPLY. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactori...
  • 10 Days Ago

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Transportation Market Sector Director
  • S&ME, Inc.
  • Atlanta, GA FULL_TIME
  • Position: CEI Transportation Market Sector Director Requisition Number: 2023-2920-01 Do you have extensive experience in the transportation and construction engineering and inspection (CEI) industry a...
  • 18 Days Ago

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Deputy Director, Transportation
  • Rockdale County, Georgia
  • Conyers, GA FULL_TIME
  • Job SummaryThis position is responsible for planning and administering the field operations and maintenance functions of the Rockdale Department of Transportation. Work involves administrative and sup...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Director of Construction
  • Lumin8 Transportation Technologies LLC
  • Marietta, GA FULL_TIME
  • At Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, we are focused on the full range of Smart Infrastructure Services for the transportation industry. We design, construct, install, integrate, operate, monitor, an...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Bus Driver
  • Lovett School
  • Atlanta, GA
  • ** Bus Driver** **Job Category****:** Operations/Facilities **Requisition Number****:** BUSDR01130 Showing 1 location **...
  • 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM

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School Bus Driver
  • Conyers-Rockdale Chamber of Commerce
  • Conyers, GA
  • Job Description Title: School Bus Driver Position Purpose Under the general supervision of the Director of Facilities, t...
  • 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Deputy Director of Transportation
  • Rockdale County Government
  • Conyers, GA
  • Job Summary This position is responsible for planning and administering the field operations and maintenance functions o...
  • 4/17/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Manager / Senior Manager, Transportation
  • Chainalytics, Inc.
  • Atlanta, GA
  • **Manager / Senior Manager, Transportation** * Atlanta, GA - Remote OK * Full-Time * Transportation * Manager / Senior M...
  • 4/17/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Bus Drivers
  • Breakthroughatlanta
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Showing 1 location **Job Details** **Description** **Breakthrough Atlanta Bus Driver Seasonal Part time** **Hourly Pay R...
  • 4/17/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Deputy Director of Transportation
  • Rockdale County Government
  • Conyers, GA
  • Job Summary This position is responsible for planning and administering the field operations and maintenance functions o...
  • 4/16/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Transportation Field Inspector
  • Rockdale County Government
  • Conyers, GA
  • Job Summary Under the general direction of the Deputy Director, Transportation this position is responsible for providin...
  • 4/16/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Driver
  • Kcecareers
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Job Description Driver - ( 210006D3 ) **Description** KinderCare Education is the nations leader in early childhood educ...
  • 4/15/2024 12:00:00 AM

Atlanta (/ætˈlæntə/) is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 38th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.8 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia. A small portion of the city extends eastward into neighboring DeKalb County. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminating stop of a major state-sp...
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