Saks OFF 5TH Hiring for Senior Manager, Inbound Domestic Transportation at New York, New York Full Time

Saks OFF 5TH is the premier online luxury off-price destination. Through its website and app, Saks OFF 5TH provides a compelling assortment of brands to fashion-seeking customers at the best prices. The company is reimagining traditional off-price with a digitally-native model focused on customer experience.

What This Position Is All About: Saks Off 5th (SO5) is seeking a candidate to identify, develop and integrate innovative solutions and programs that lead to improvements that redefine the standards Inbound freight to our Distribution Centers, Cross Docs and Retail Stores. You will be responsible for maintaining SO5’s relationship with various carriers (small parcel, LTL, FTL, Airlines, Steam Ship Lines and other 3PL’s) in both day-to-day operations, volume planning and contract negotiations. By collaborating with your internal stakeholders, you will develop forecasts and reporting systems to provide seamless sharing of relevant data within the Transportation segment of the Supply Chain. Major focus will be on visibility or Inbound Freight ensuring that the right stuff is delivered at the right time in the right way.

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Logistics, Supply Chain, or another related field
• +5 years of qualitative/quantitative experience in Supply Chain, Operations, Transportation, or Inventory Management
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to articulate their position and achieve buy in
• Solid organizational and inter-personal skills with the ability to foster productive relationships at every level
• Creative problem-solving ability and multi-tasking competing priorities
• Strong experience in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Knowledge in carrier operations
• Evidence of significant improvements to the delivery experience
• Demonstrated success in cost saving initiatives through bidding and commercial negotiations
• Experience working independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to overcome obstacles and deliver results

As The Senior Manager, Inbound Transportation you will:

• Manage full lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
• Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
• Provide visibility and key terms of all freight pricing and strategy for small parcel, LTL and FTL
• Manage freight procurement RFP’s, RFQ’s, and RFI’s for outbound freight
• Build relationships with project stakeholders including legal, tax, risk management, fulfillment, supply chain, customer service and various business stakeholders that fosters a strong focus on improvement to the delivery experience
• Develop and implement unified tools and information systems to support freight project planning and execution
• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track carrier performance related to planning, delivery, quality, and cost
• Support the creation of carrier scorecards to measure and track performance
• Facilitate business reviews to discuss best practices and to improve carrier performance while strengthen business partnerships across teams
• Benchmark rate information versus historic pricing and versus competition
• Perform supplier spend analysis, including reporting to establish visibility of spend patterns by category, region, and carrier

Your Life and Career at Saks OFF 5TH:

• Be part of an empowered, innovative team; work with an adventurous spirit and a customer-centric mindset; play a critical role in making decisions that will position us to win
• Exposure to rewarding career advancement opportunities across different functions within our corporate offices, retail stores, photo studios, and distribution centers
• A culture that promotes a flexible work environment 
• Benefits package for all eligible full-time employees (including medical, dental and vision)
• An amazing employee discount and other exciting perks

Thank you for your interest with Saks OFF 5TH. We look forward to reviewing your application.

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