Sr. Manager - Dedicated Fleet - Zone Technical Logistics
Kraft Heinz
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Build continuous processes and routines centered around fleet right sizing and strategy for short- and long-term cost and service goals
- Gain alignment from Senior Leadership on dedicated fleet strategies
- Partner with Logistics Operations to execute the optimized dedicated fleet utilization and ensure expected performance
- Partner with procurement to develop contractual language to meet short- and long-term strategies during annual bid
- Work side by side with procurement and capacity planning team through the annual bid to ensure core dedicated lanes and awards optimize cost and service for Kraft Heinz
- Partner with internal digital team to discover, build, and roll out dedicated fleet optimization and decision making tools
- Investigate and build business cases for investment(s) in external tools and systems to transform our ways of working within the dedicated fleet space
- Own end-to-end project management on digital solutions starting with problem definition, scope alignment, vendor selection, to execution and change management
- Examples of projects: Gate Fast Pass, eBOL, Route Optimizer, Backhaul Finder, Continuous Loop Builder, Invoice audit and processing tool, etc.
- Lead weekly reviews with leadership on KPI’s and specific actions to improve utilization and performance
- Develop cooperative opportunities with warehouse and customer locations to increase drops, decrease dwell time, and improve communication through actions such as on-site carrier/warehouse meetings
- Owner of fleet performance and defining KPIs that drive decisions for annual dedicated fleet bids for rate negotiations
- Design proactive process and communication channels with finance to calculate and communicate year over year cost savings and cost avoidance forecasts and actuals
- Own the dedicated fleet transportation KPI results for Monthly Performance Reviews for Sr. Leadership.
- Create and sustain MPR/QBR routines with fleets to drive performance, relationships, and optimization
- Guide and support Sr. Analyst of Dedicated Fleet through weekly KPI accountability calls with the fleets
- Develop and cultivate strong partnership with transportation operations team at Kraft Heinz to enable visibility and accountability across the organization for dedicated fleet performance
- Actively participate in capacity planning rate reviews when lanes are favorable/unfavorable
- Establish no touch exception management processes and audit controls around invoice processing and payments