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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager, Transportation Excellence drives strategic initiatives, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the EU transportation network. The role develops and implements transportation strategies, processes, systems, and KPIs to optimize performance, support business growth, and deliver supply chain objectives. By leading transformation programs and driving data-based decision-making, the position ensures efficiency, scalability, and sustainable business value.

• Identify and implement transportation network, process, and system improvements to enhance service, efficiency, and cost performance.
• Lead strategic transportation projects and change initiatives across the EU network, including launches, expansions, and new services.
• Develop and execute transportation strategies, operating standards, KPIs, and continuous improvement programs.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful project delivery and business impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead key tactical and strategical projects across the EU delivery network in alignment with company’s strategic direction and priorities
• Own a quantitative, data-driven, fact-based mindset in order to prioritize and manage the EU transportation excellence agenda
• Ensure projects are delivered with proper cadence and governance, along with a clear communication plan
• Improve overall transportation KPIs (OTIF, Speed, Sustainability, cost, NPS and VAS) for our omnichannel business (ecom, retail and wholesale)
• Design, budget, and deliver impactful IT tools for transportation management
• Optimize the transportation network for better cost, service, speed and reliability
• Drive the sustainability vision of the company for the whole network
• Take part in quarterly and annual budgeting process along with Supply Chain Finance
• Be customer centric in everything we do, owning the delivery experience by enhancing consumer preference and convenience options
• Build up transportation metrics and track performance, lead improvement agendas
• Define and deliver cost saving initiatives to optimize our 350+ M Euro annual transportation spend
• Support B2B and B2C tender process with Global Procurement

Key relationships:

• All DC’s in Europe
• Carrier and Parcel Service Provider
• Customer Service and adidas Business Partner
• CoE global logistics
• EU Finance
• EU Transportation and DC Operations
• Finance Department (Accounting, Controlling) in Amsterdam, Herzogenaurach, Porto

Knowledge skills and abilities:

• Team player. Proven collaboration and people and communication skills to interact effectively with internal and external business partners of different levels.
• Strong analytical and data-driven mindset, capable of transforming complex data into actionable insights, business recommendations, and operational improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills, working effectively across functions, levels, cultures, and external partners.
• Solid expertise in DC operations, warehousing, transportation, and value-added logistics services, supported by strong SAP and WMS/TMS knowledge.
• Customer-focused and commercially minded, able to assess business requirements, identify key cost drivers, and translate them into efficient service and supply chain solutions.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:   

• University degree in Business Management, ideally with a focus on SCM, or equivalent education.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience in fast-moving consumer goods within logistics, transportation management environment (relevant consultancy included)
• High level of MS Office suite knowledge, especially PowerPoint, Excel, CoPilot and PowerBi. 
• Fluent in English both verbal and written.