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New York, NY, US

Camden, New Jersey

Ewing, NJ

• Build and manage transportation carrier network with total spend of $120M.
• Develop strategy for and execute annual bid consisting of 70 carriers, negotiating with carrier representatives to achieve lowest cost and highest level of service.
• Work with Logistics Technology team to ensure all rates are uploaded into the TMS accurately and on-time.
• Manage relationships with three on-site carrier representatives to foster collaboration between key partners.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Customer Logistics to identify cost-savings within current distribution network.

Ewing, NJ

• Manage TMS, supporting centralized Corporate Transportation operations including load optimization, planning/tendering, invoicing, EDI, and reporting.
• Configure TMS to achieve service and budget goals in collaboration with Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Transportation.
• Led Sterling Dock Scheduling project to implement a scheduling tool across multiple distribution centers, successfully reducing carrier backlog and maintaining a minimum of 90% pickup appointment compliance.
• Collaborated with Transportation Planning to improve optimization percentage of outbound orders by over 80%, reducing manual load creation.
• Assisted with the successful implementation of an SAP upgrade, working with the Transportation team to ensure no interruption to daily operations.

Princeton, New Jersey

• Managed daily transportation planning across multiple distribution centers, inbound raw material suppliers, and co-packers, ensuring an average tender depth below 2.5 and carrier on-time of 97.3%.
• Successfully led Transportation department, 70 carriers, and four warehouses in customer requirement to transition Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club business from prepaid to collect terms equating to $30MM freight spend.
• Participated in Harrisonville Truck Scale Initiative, resulting in a decrease in cost per hundredweight and overall savings of $239K.
• Collaborated with Customer Service and Transportation managers to streamline the customer pickup process, analyzing and updating past rates to ensure fair pricing for all parties.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Worked with contract manufacturers to resolve production delays, minimizing impact to on-time and in-full metrics.
• Organized and led recurring departmental strategic planning meetings.
• Collected and reported weekly key performance metrics to team members.