Senior Manager, Transportation Logistics Operations

At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, food service, household, personal care and pet products.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities.

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

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The Transportation Logistics Operations Senior Manager, Converting is a key member of the Transportation team reporting to the Director of Logistics. In this role, you will be accountable for shipment distribution globally across various modes: TL, LTL, and Export. This role manages all freight activities by determining the most advantageous and economical methods of logistics shipping to meet customer expectations and to ensure that all shipments are delivered to the established performance levels.

The Transportation Logistics Operation Senior Manager, Converting is the subject matter expert for Global Transportation and will have experience in providing best-in-class strategies and tactics. They will collaborate internally cross functionally with production planning, facilities, customers, executives, and suppliers. Prior experience required managing Carrier/Forwarder relationships and providing key metrics to help support the transportation needs of a business or 3PL organization through data and logic reasoning.

Job functions include but are not limited to the following.

• Key manager on Logistics team to engage and build strong relationships with sales executives and managers on the status of transportation capabilities, issues, and opportunities for key customers.
• Engage customer service and operations planning teams in the businesses regularly to jointly manage risk and service considerations for customers. Collaborates with production planning, facilities, suppliers, and various stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives while also supporting tactical initiatives.
• Aligns Demand and Supply plans with downstream transportation capacity planning processes to reduce waste and support logistics execution.
• Actively suggests reasonable assumption where good data does not exist to keep the process moving forward, while making plans to address the root cause of the missing data, and to tell the story of what is transpiring from an execution front.
• Partners with Procurement team on vendor selection and awards to consistently deliver outstanding transportation service across all modes, globally: LTL, Truck Load, Rail, Ocean Freight.
• Plans and directs the day-to-day transportation functions, including the work assignments of employees, to ensure that department standards for efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness are met or exceeded. Implements tools to gauge performance and holds team accountable on delivery.
• Establishes and communicates department goals, monitoring employee performance to ensure they are met or exceeded.
• Provides training, development, and performance evaluations of…