Network Transportation Manager - Knoxville, TN

Network Transportation Manager

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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.

As a Network Transportation Manager, you're responsible for creating, maintaining, and managing a transport strategy that optimizes cost, capacity, service, and sustainability for Kimberly-Clark's North American inbound, customer, and inter-mill deliveries. This role encompasses various transportation modes, including truckload, intermodal, rail, and LTL. The Network Transportation will lead key partnerships with Procurement, Supply Planning, Transportation Operations, Solutions, and Analytics. Key deliverables include cost-saving programs, carrier compliance, on-time delivery, and sustainability. In this role, you will:

• Manage and optimize transportation network for the specific region
• Conduct risk assessments through predictive analytics to build a transport strategy for current and future markets
• Develop analysis and scorecards to communicate with customers and key cross-functional teams, aiming to improve overall supply chain compliance and effectiveness
• Lead aspects of Transportation Management, striving for Customer Service Excellence at minimal Total Delivered Cost (TDC)
• Own relationships with third-party transportation carriers to ensure service level requirements are met at contracted rates
• Develop capacity planning strategy and partner with procurement to ensure adequate transport capacity to support business needs through annual RFP, mini-bid process, or direct negotiation
• Influence third-party carriers and other key network stakeholders to adopt and maintain a safety mindset and culture
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver financial and operational improvements and understanding

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 purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business. In one of our professional roles, you'll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Advanced degree in Logistics or Supply Chain
• 5+ years' experience related to Transportation Management
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong curiosity and desire to explore and implement innovative technology
• Systems and data integration experience
• Cross-functional customer supply-chain knowledge and experience
• Project Management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional projects independently
• Comfortable with problem-solving technical issues related to systems
• Lean experience, including leading simple problem-solving and development of standard work
• Preferred: Working knowledge of Kimberly-Clark's supply chain interactions
• Experience with Transportation Management Systems (TMS), preferably Blue Yonder Cloud TMS
• Salary Range: 105,740 130,620 USD

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee