Director of Transportation

Director of Transportation

The Director of Transportation position is located in Memphis, TN. We are seeking a highly accomplished transportation leader to oversee the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our end-to-end transportation network. This role is responsible for leading all transportation modes, including Less-than-Truckload (LTL), Full Truckload (FTL), Intermodal, Parcel, Ocean, and Air Freight, while optimizing service, cost, network efficiency, and customer experience.

Partner closely with Distribution Operations, Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Merchandising, Customs Compliance, Finance, Customer Care, Procurement, and Technology to ensure our transportation network supports business growth while maintaining operational excellence.

This position requires an executive who combines strategic vision with operational discipline, excels in data-driven decision making, and is passionate about developing people and building high-performing teams.

You'll be excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Develop and execute an enterprise transportation strategy supporting domestic and international operations.
• Optimize transportation networks across LTL, Truckload, Intermodal, Parcel, Ocean, and Air.
• Lead transportation procurement, carrier sourcing, contract negotiations, and annual bid events.
• Develop long-term network strategies that improve service, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor transportation market conditions and proactively adjust network strategies.

• Less-than-Truckload (LTL)
• Full Truckload (FTL)
• Intermodal
• Dedicated Fleet (where applicable)
• Retail and Distribution Center transportation
• Final Mile operations (where applicable)

Responsibilities include capacity planning, routing optimization, carrier management, peak season readiness, transportation procurement, and performance management.

• Develop multi-carrier parcel strategies across multiple parcel carriers, and emerging last-mile providers.
• Lead parcel carrier negotiations and optimize transportation spend while maintaining service commitments.
• Drive parcel optimization initiatives including zone skipping, carrier diversification, consolidation, dimensional weight reduction, packaging optimization, and routing improvements.
• Monitor parcel KPIs including cost per package, on-time delivery, transit performance, delivery exceptions, claims, and customer experience.
• Partner with Distribution Centers to improve carton utilization, packaging efficiency, and shipping profiles.
• Ensure peak season parcel capacity and network resiliency.

• Ocean Freight
• Air Freight
• Freight Forwarders and NVOCCs
• Import transportation planning
• International carrier management
• Port and gateway strategy

Partner closely with Customs Compliance and Global Sourcing teams to ensure efficient inbound transportation and regulatory compliance.

• Build executive relationships with transportation providers.
• Negotiate transportation contracts and service agreements.
• Develop carrier scorecards measuring cost, service, capacity, claims, and performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives with transportation partners.

• Manage a multi-million-dollar transportation budget.
• Lead freight forecasting, budgeting, and transportation productivity initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce freight costs while protecting service levels.
• Utilize transportation analytics to support strategic decision making.

• Develop transportation dashboards and executive KPI reporting.
• Analyze transportation performance, cost-to-serve, carrier utilization, and network efficiency.
• Lead transportation optimization projects using data and analytics.
• Champion continuous improvement and process simplification.

• Distribution Operations
• Inventory Planning
• Supply Planning
• Customer…