(usa) Area Manager - Transportation Office (transportation)

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Centralia, WA

Area Manager for Walmart Transportation, responsible for leading and optimizing transportation services, ensuring timely and safe delivery of goods. This role involves managing a team, implementing business plans, preparing business reports, ensuring associate training, addressing concerns, supervising and developing associates, and ensuring equipment availability. Requires background in transportation and logistics, strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will effectively communicate with individuals or groups, including customers, suppliers, and associates.
  2. You will implement the business plan for your area by setting goals, managing staffing and scheduling, assigning duties, and coordinating workloads to meet facility goals in terms of production, quality, and safety.
  3. You will prepare, review, and analyze business reports to manage productivity.
  4. You will ensure associates are trained in logistics and company policies, monitor compliance, and maintain procedures and supporting documentation.
  5. You will address concerns from associates, customers, and suppliers by consulting others and making recommendations.

Skills

Required

  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Strong leadership abilities
  • Analytical skills
  • Commitment to maintaining high standards of quality and safety
  • Ability to resolve complex issues
  • Ability to drive continuous improvement
  • Background in transportation and logistics
  • Understanding of transportation scheduling and driver management
  • Associate's Degree in Business, Logistics, or related field OR 1 year Walmart Logistics experience OR 1 year transportation experience

Nice to have

  • Microsoft Office
  • Supervising Associates
  • Walmart
  • Bachelors: Business
  • Bachelors: Logistics