Dir Last Mile Strategy & Delivery

** What You Need To Know*
* Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people - and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As North America's largest total beverage distributor, Southern Glazer's isn't just one of Forbes' Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer's is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer's, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

** Overview*
* This national leadership role owns the execution of our Last Mile Strategy across routing, dispatch, training, and day-to-day delivery operations, while owning core fleet utilization and performance.  The role combines national routing SOPs, performance and vendor management with hands-on fleet operations leadership - including fleet performance, utilization and local shop management - to drive transportation excellence. Critical stakeholder to leading the national outbound TMS implementations and delivery optimizations ranging from reroutes to operations playbook.

Ideal candidates demonstrate thought leadership, change management, problem identification and problem solving, the ability to make consistent progress in new ways of working, excellent relationship building, and strong field experience across routing, dispatch, outbound, fleet, and personnel management.

** Primary Responsibilities*
* + Lead monitoring, progress, and execution of Last Mile Strategy and delivery goals and priorities as part of Project Lumina 10-year initiatives

+ Ensure a successful transition to Omnitracs (OT1) and continuous improvement on routing metrics, data integrations and reporting

+ Develop National / Regional routing strategy and build re-routing processes that create sustainable, ongoing ways to improve service and reduce cost

+ Drive route optimization, asset capacity and utilization efficiencies; improve Route Quality Index and convert truck-capacity language to standardized weight and cube measures

+ Standardize route planning and dispatch SOPs, off-day delivery, and proof of pickup/return processes across all sites

+ Lead a team of technical experts across outbound logistics including Roadnet, Geotab, Lytx & Velocitor - among various other WMS and OTC systems

+ Support outbound TMS strategy in partnership with One Tech

+ Lead team to support Routing & Dispatch Community platform with national participation and standardized cadence

+ Build and administer a Last Mile certification program and standard onboarding/training guidelines for dispatching teams

+ Conduct weekly regional routing coaching sessions on all metric elements and lead performance reviews of routing/dispatch dashboards with sites

+ Establish training standards and SOPs for driver and router onboarding; drive e-learning engagement and completion during onboarding/training

+ Partner with Fleet Safety and Operational Transformation on Driver Academy, defensive driving, and continuous-improvement (Kaizen / Gemba / VSM) events such as pre/post-trip standardization

+ Establish and coach the 30/30 pre/post-trip time standard across all sites

** Additional Primary Responsibilities*
* + Support with Operations Leader development in managing fleet vendor relationship

+ Own Fleet Uptime (goal ≥ 95%) and…