Director of Transportation & Warehousing

Job Summary

The Director of Transportation & Warehousing s is responsible for leading RTC's global logistics strategy and operations across transportation, warehousing, distribution, importation, customs and trade compliance, and material flow. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the movement, storage, and distribution of raw materials and finished goods across domestic and international supply chains, including product shipped into and out of RTC's U.S. distribution centers.

As RTC's senior logistics leader and subject matter expert in global trade, the Director is accountable for transportation, warehousing, and distribution performance; reducing total landed cost; ensuring regulatory compliance; improving service and inventory performance; and building scalable logistics capabilities to support company growth.

The role partners closely with Procurement, Operations, Finance, Planning, Sales, and Customer Service to strengthen end-to-end supply chain performance, resolve operational issues, and ensure effective execution across RTC's logistics network.

• Own and execute RTC's domestic and international transportation and logistics strategy, including the movement of product into and out of U.S. distribution centers.
• Oversee transportation performance and execution, ensuring significant service disruptions, capacity constraints, expedited freight, and other issues impacting supply or customer delivery are effectively resolved.
• Optimize transportation networks, freight spend, carrier performance, service levels, and supply chain resilience.
• Lead carrier and logistics provider strategy, selection, contract negotiations, performance expectations, and strategic relationships.
• Establish transportation KPIs and hold the organization and external partners accountable for cost, service, reliability, and capacity performance.
• Ensure premium and expedited freight is effectively managed and corrective actions are implemented to reduce avoidable transportation costs.

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for RTC's warehousing and distribution operations, including receiving, storage, inventory movement, fulfillment, and shipping.
• Ensure the timely and effective flow of product into and out of RTC's U.S. distribution centers while meeting customer delivery, inventory, and operational requirements.
• Establish performance expectations for safety, inventory accuracy, productivity, labor utilization, fulfillment, capacity, and on-time shipping and ensure corrective actions address performance gaps.
• Establish operating standards and continuous improvement priorities while optimizing warehouse capacity, layout, material flow, and storage strategies.
• Ensure effective inventory control processes and accountability for inventory accuracy across warehousing and distribution operations.
• Maintain appropriate visibility within warehouse and distribution operations to understand performance issues and ensure effective execution.
• Sponsor automation, material-handling, process standardization, and technology initiatives that improve productivity, scalability, and service.
• Ensure warehouse and distribution operations meet company safety, quality, security, and regulatory requirements.

• Own RTC's importation, customs, and global trade compliance programs and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Establish requirements related to customs regulations, HTS classifications, country of origin, valuation, Incoterms, and import/export activities.
• Oversee import performance and significant customs or compliance issues, ensuring appropriate resolution with brokers, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Develop strategies to reduce tariff exposure, optimize duties and total landed cost, and support global sourcing decisions.

• Establish logistics technology priorities and sponsor implementation and optimization of ERP, WMS, TMS, shipment visibility, and logistics analytics capabilities.
• Ensure logistics systems and data provide the visibility and capabilities necessary to effectively manage operational performance.
• Approve and sponsor business cases for logistics technology, automation, and network optimization investments.

• Own logistics budgets and overall freight, warehousing, distribution, and landed-cost performance, establishing priorities to improve cost and service.
• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Operations, and other leaders on sourcing, network, investment, and strategic supply chain decisions.

• Lead and develop high-performing transportation, logistics, warehouse, distribution, inventory control, and trade compliance teams with clear accountability for safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost.
• Establish the logistics operating cadence and hold leaders accountable for performance gaps, corrective actions, and sustained results.