Transportation Manager

Why Us?

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

Could This Be For You?

Primary focus will be to manage freight spend over $20M across all business units within the organization. Additional responsibilities include managing the full relationships with vendors; such as, enVista Freight Audit and Payment Service, Couriers, and UPS. Provide analysis and recommendations for the Supply Chain Business Strategy for network design, analysis of inbound freight spend from vendors, and distribution center (DC) stocking strategies.

Your Impact

• Manage over $13M in FedEx billing and contract structure focusing on expense reduction and service level improvements for customers
• Serve as the point of contact for daily interactions with the FedEx Worldwide Account Manager for service related issues
• Perform analysis of the FedEx billing and accessorial charges to prioritize opportunities to reduce expense along with ensuring contractual claims with FedEx for service failures, damage, etc. are paid
• Provide recommendations for process changes at the DC’s and clinics to reduce freight expense
• Lead the effort with the DC’s and clinics to communicate and implement the required changes
• Manage enVista Freight Audit and Payment Service to develop enhanced reporting to manage and reduce freight expense and service level improvements
• Identify, organize and manage the local courier relationships and contracts to reduce freight spend and improve service levels
• Develop a standard contract for couriers by working with the internal legal team
• Develop a network of couriers to expand our delivery capabilities where appropriate to reduce expense and improve service levels.
• Ensure punch out capabilities exist for tracking numbers to provide real time information for service commitments.
• Provide analysis by working with internal customers and parcel carriers to support recommendations for the Supply Chain Business Strategy key initiative for network modeling
• Analyze inbound freight spend by vendor to support the prioritization of consignment inventory and stocking strategies in the DC network
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain or aligned degree
• 8 years of related experience.
  
  

Additional Success Factors

• Proficient in MS Office and complex tables and V look-ups
• Proficient in BI software like Tableau
• Advanced use of Excel creating templates and dashboards
• Experience in data gathering, queries and report writing with SQL
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with the management of all carriers for daily operations to include small parcel and Less than truckload shipping (LTL)
• Knowledge of Supply Chain processes and systems
• Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
• Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
• Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.
  
  

Our Investment in You

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• 8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
• PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
• Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
• Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
• Relocation Assistance
• Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
• Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger’s BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest
  
  

Hanger, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. All conditions and privileges of employment are administered to all employees without discrimination or harassment because of race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, special disabled veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. The company will comply with all applicable state or local fair employment laws that forbid discrimination or harassment on the basis of other protected characteristics. Retaliation against any employee for filing or supporting a complaint of discrimination or harassment is prohibited.

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