Transportation Excellence Lead

Your Job:

As the Transportation Excellence Lead at Brooks, you are responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling Brooks’ global transportation network to support business growth, cost efficiency, and service excellence. You will serve as the subject matter expert for global transportation strategy, systems, and process design. You will be responsible for translating E2E business strategy into scalable operating models, systems, and partner strategies across ocean, rail, and trucking networks.

You will interface Supply Chain Excellence, IT, Market Supply Planning, Sourcing, Customer Service, and other cross‑functional teams to align Transportation processes, standards, and systems with broader Supply Chain and enterprise goals. You will drive operational, analytical, and project decisions by establishing financial and strategic guardrails, resolving issues independently, and escalating for sponsorship when required.

You possess strong analytical expertise, the ability to operate in ambiguous environments, and the capability to design and implement solutions that scale with Brooks’ global growth. You will collaborate with other subject matter experts to construct business cases with clearly defined requirements and financial analyses including calculated returns on investment (ROI). For business cases that evolve into projects, you will represent Transportation in the planning and analysis, design, testing, and implementation phases.

You may also assist with documenting business processes, business rules for data, and organizational roles and responsibilities.

• Lead development and execution of key initiatives within the global end‑to‑end Transportation roadmap, partnering with Supply Chain leadership to ensure alignment with Brooks’ long‑term supply chain strategy.
• Analyze transportation network opportunities by conducting scenario modeling, reviewing carrier sourcing, and optimizing networks. Provide recommendations to support business growth and changing needs.
• Monitor transportation performance metrics and recommend improvements for cost targets and service expectations across all models.

• Lead carrier sourcing activities, including RFP design, rate negotiations, supplier evaluation, and selection.
• Build and foster relationships with Brooks’ transportation carrier partners.
• Serve as the Transportation subject matter expert (SME), providing progress analysis on carrier strategy and informing leadership on cost, capacity, and risk tradeoffs.
• Negotiate periodic air and ocean freight rate agreements, balancing cost, capacity, service, and lead‑time requirements.
• Evaluate and select air, ocean, intermodal, and trucking carriers based on performance history, transit times, cost competitiveness, and alignment with our global transportation strategy and regional strategic initiatives.

• Own the design of global transportation processes, SOPs, and operating standards to ensure scalability, consistency, and compliance.
• Lead transportation maturity frameworks, understanding current and future‑state operating models and driving improvement initiatives in collaboration with Transportation team members and cross‑functional partners.
• Lead cross‑functional alignment and decision‑making for process changes, ensuring solutions balance operational feasibility, system capability, and business impact.
• Leverage continuous improvement/lean methodologies to problem solve and coordinate projects to measurably improve our functional and broader business KPIs.

• Lead transportation technology initiatives, including requirements definition, solution design, testing, and implementation change management.
• Represent Transportation in cross‑functional and enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment between business requirements and system capabilities.
• Collaborate with Transportation team to establish frameworks for identifying, prioritizing, and resolving system and process issues across transportation platforms and integrations.

• Develop business…