Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Sr. Specialist Transportation Performance is a key strategy execution role for an organized, passionate, goal-oriented, visionary specialist who understands the challenges and the opportunities of a wide supply chain and transportation network. The primary focus of this position is to drive excellence in Argentina transportation network. This role implements the vision and strategy for transportation programs, systems and processes required to define and support the company’s current and future distribution and supply chain requirements.

The candidate should be capable of driving business transformation, streamlining operations, and building new solutions to simplify processes and deliver on strategic objectives.

Consecutively, support the team initiatives and drives improvement programs. To measure success, define and create new metrics and KPIs and tracks the delivery of intended results and takes on further corrective actions.

• Identify gaps and improvement opportunities in the network, systems, and processes.
• Accordingly, deliver a tactical / strategical improvement plan to streamline operations, processes, and systems, essentially to deliver better value for the business.

• Lead and execute transportation improvement projects, improve processes and methods to generate higher value, efficacy, and efficiency.
• Support analysis, tenders and projects related to Transportation area.
• Deliver and manage projects and change initiatives in Argentina network (DCs, Key Cities, Stores, Launches)
• Enable new services to provide convenience and choice to our customers.
• Develop standard operating procedures and metrics to achieve business results and drive continuous improvement in all aspects of transportation across the company.
• Ensure proper communication and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Follow and measure daily performance of carriers, find gaps and prepare an improvement plan together with DC outbound team, carriers and others key stakeholders.
• Improve overall transportation KPIs (OTIF, Speed, Sustainability and cost) for our omnichannel business (ecomm, retail and wholesale & inbound transportation).
• Support IT initiatives and project related to transportation.
• Drive the sustainability vision of the company for the whole network.
• 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 annual transportation spend.
• Support  B2B and B2C tender process with Procurement team.

Key Relationships:

• Initiate and drive discussions with cross-functional internal stakeholders, as well as external partners; to collect and consolidate input, issues, feedback, and insights to prepare, plan, align and deliver solutions.
• Deliver execution of the aligned tactical / strategic initiatives
• Proactively manage stakeholders, build relationships, and manage communication.
• Stakeholders can relate (but not limited) to the following core functions:
  • Supply Chain Management (all functions)
  • Market (all functions) 
  • External partners (carriers, solution providers and consultants)
  • Global Operations (Global Transportation, Procurement. Digital, Strategy and IT)
  • Corporate functions (e.g., legal, finance & performance management)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Soft skills:

• Thinks Big and has a bias for action. Expected to be creative, to plan, shine and deliver.
• End-to-end mindset with a holistic view of problems and opportunities on hand
• Has backbone, develops and constructively communicates his/her opinion, not scared to disagree, and yet commit. Seeks ‘the best for the business’ always in mind.
• Solution builder with a creative mind and solid experience in delivering results.
• Possess constant quest for innovative improvement, rigor, excellent relational capacities for managing diverse stakeholders with erratic interests of their own.
• Highly self-motivated and acts like an ‘owner.’
• Earns trust, both of his/her team and internal/external stakeholders. Does what he/she says in due time, and dares to say ‘No’ when required so
• Engaging, open and perceptive to feedback and improvement
• Autonomous and capable of handling all-way communication (upward, lateral and downward)
• Change management skills, influencing a network of internal and external stakeholders.
• Solid presentation and storytelling skills

Hard skills:

• Expertise on parcel carrier and last mile network, with suppliers, services, and consumer preferences
• Working experience with a Transportation Management and Optimization system
• Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Has experience in building and evaluating Business Cases with scenario planning.
• Continuous improvement and problem-solving skills; ability to develop and implement processes and metrics to manage business results.
• Communication skills, particularly interpersonal, in complex large / matrix organizations.
• Knowledge of transportation policy and law accompanied with knowledge of transportation technologies, databases and systems is an advantage.

Education and Qualifications: 

• A bachelor’s degree in relevant departments of universities required.
• Professional Certifications in PMP, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping are an advantage.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in an advanced supply chain and/or transportation management environment
• Fluency in written & spoken English.