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Description

Kenvue is currently recruiting for:
Transportation Lead

Who we are
At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we're the house of iconic brands - including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnson's and BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is made up of 22,000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact the life of millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage - and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future-and yours.

Role reports to: Sr Manager of US Transportation Operations
Location: Skillman, NJ (Kenvue's corporate headquarters is currently located in Skillman NJ, but is scheduled to move to Summit, NJ in or around early 2025.)
Travel : 10%
Pay: 92,000- 149,500

What you will do
The Transportation Lead is responsible for overseeing transportation services, including freight management, strategic transportation analysis, compliance, claims, freight payment, import/export services, and deviations. Facilitate the expedited freight approval process and track spend. Partner with manufacturing, distribution, and planning colleagues to streamline flow and minimize costs.

Key Responsibilities
Supervise transportation analysts, with responsibility for goal setting, development, and performance management.
Evaluate and propose automation solutions that maximize resource effectiveness, decrease cycle times, and minimize transactional defects.
Support transformation projects by helping to define business process requirements with business partners to improve the customer experience and attain capabilities goals.
Analyze strategic transportation supply chain requirements and develop creative solutions.
Primary point of contact for sites and logistics providers to communicate issues affecting shipment flows, including but not limited to missing documentation, freight delays, quality events and shipping receiving delays.
Collaborate with internal & external business partners, including Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing, and Carriers to deliver results across critical metrics owned by Transportation such as on-time delivery, cost improvement programs, freight spend performance vs. budget, security infraction rates, and quality deliverables.
Lead operational activities to support carrier bids for various domestic and inter-region transport moves; including requirements, baseline validation and lane implementation to pre-established metrics.
Lead/participate in operational vendor management meetings (business reviews, reporting on operational vendor performance) and lead day to day tactical relationship with the vendors
Utilize data to develop analyses that uncover insights and opportunities; provide input and analyze strategic transportation supply chain requirements. Lead process improvement projects leveraging PM methodologies like Six Sigma, FPX, etc., to drive reliability and or cost efficiencies.
Oversee specified transportation services, including freight management, strategic transportation analysis, compliance, claims, freight payment, import/export services, and deviations.
Additional responsibilities include coordination, track & trace/exception management for assigned transportation lanes, and ad-hoc operational analytics to drive day to day business efficiencies

What we are looking for
Required Qualifications
Minimum Bachelor's degree required
Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience required
Experience in logistics, customer service, transportation, distribution, operations, supply chain, and/or information technology
Intermediate Microsoft Office proficiency, including lookup & reference functions, conditional statements, pivots, and macros
Requires data analytics experience to successfully organize, analyze, and interpret data to identify opportunities and influence business operations
Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully and work independently while demonstrating initiative
Ability to work in fast paced environment with multiple priorities
Strong intellectual curiosity and ability to embrace learning
Ability to work in a matrix environment and work with different cultures
Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion

Desired Qualifications
People leadership experience preferred
Demonstrated business results in optimizing business processes, using various Data & Analytics tools
Experience or thorough working knowledge desired with SAP, BW, Tableau, or Power BI; Alteryx, Qlik, or other data software is a plus
Experience and depth of understanding with Transportation Management Systems (e.g., Blue Yonder, Oracle) or other supply chain systems such as ERP's (e.g., SAP). Previous TMS implementation experience a plus.
Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to succeed with internal and external business partners
Project management experience and tools
Six Sigma/Process Excellence Tools, Training or certification
APICS Certification
Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion

What's in it for you
Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $92,000 to $ 149,500 This takes into account a number of factors including...

Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity