Regional Transportation Manager

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Manufacturing

The Regional Transportation Manager at Ford is responsible for managing inbound freight for Ford plants, focusing on premium truck and air providers, and driving cost improvements. This role involves implementing freight efficiencies, developing logistics strategies, managing critical freight moves, monitoring performance metrics, and resolving logistics-related issues between plants, suppliers, and carriers. The position also includes auditing billing discrepancies and leading the launch of new bid board processes to ensure competition among premium providers, while maintaining a high sigma rating for production disruptions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Implement freight efficiencies to achieve calendarized and annualized targets.
  2. Develop logistics commodity strategies with the Transportation Purchasing Organization.
  3. Manage, track, and escalate critical premium freight moves. Including consistent monitoring of the 10 am premium logistics provider chat.
  4. Manage metrics and performance of the premium freight bid board solution.
  5. Support TPO in helping carriers react to changes at the least cost.

Skills

Required

  • 1+ years of experience interfacing with plant personnel; staff MP&L (MFE, SCM, etc.) and cross-functional (Purchasing, Lead Logistics Providers, etc.) teams.
  • 1+ years of Parts Follow Up
  • 1+ years of experience using CMMS
  • Strong understanding of MP&L (CMMS, Data Warehouse) and Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access) systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience within the NAML organization, SCM, preferred, and a strong knowledge of logistical operations.
  • Experience leading the resolution of plant, supplier, carrier, and other MP&L issues to ensure plant production.
  • Strong analytical skill set, coupled with decision-making capability, including a background in Alteryx, Power BI, and/or Tableau.
  • Ability to self-motivate, strong time-management skills, emotional resilience, and work under pressure and time commitments.
  • Plant experience preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • premium truck and air providers
  • premium freight moves
  • premium logistics provider chat
  • premium freight bid board solution
  • premium provider space