Transportation Excellence Lead

Your Responsibilities: Transportation Strategy & Network Optimization

Lead development and execution of key initiatives within the global end-to-end Transportation roadmap, partnering with Supply Chain leadership to ensure alignment with Brooks’ long-term supply chain strategy.

Analyze transportation network opportunities by conducting scenario modeling, reviewing carrier sourcing, and optimizing networks. Provide recommendations to support business growth and changing needs.

Monitor transportation performance metrics and recommend improvements for cost targets and service expectations across all models

Carrier Sourcing

Lead carrier sourcing activities, including RFP design, rate negotiations , supplier evaluation, and selection.

Build and foster relationships with Brooks’ transportation carrier partners.

Serve as the Transportation subject matter expert (SME), providing progress analysis on carrier strategy and informing leadership on cost, capacity, and risk tradeoffs.

Negotiate periodic air and ocean freight rate agreements, balancing cost, capacity, service, and lead-time requirements.

Evaluate and select air, ocean, intermodal, and trucking carriers based on performance history, transit times, cost competitiveness, and alignment with our global transportation strategy and regional strategic initiatives.

Process Design & Continuous Improvement

Own the design of global transportation processes, SOPs, and operating standards to ensure scalability, consistency, and compliance.

Lead transportation maturity frameworks, understanding current and future-state operating models and driving improvement initiatives in collaboration with Transportation team members and cross functional partners.

Lead cross-functional alignment and decision-making for process changes, ensuring solutions balance operational feasibility, system capability, and business impact.

Leverage continuous improvement/lean methodologies to problem solve and coordinate projects to measurably improve our functional and broader business KPIs.

Technology Initiatives

Lead transportation technology initiatives, including requirements definition, solution design, testing, and implementation change management.

Represent Transportation in cross-functional and enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment between business requirements and system capabilities.

Collaborate with Transportation team to establish frameworks for identifying, prioritizing, and resolving system and process issues across transportation platforms and integrations.

Financial Analysis & Business Case Ownership

Develop business cases, including financial modeling, ROI analysis, and leadership recommendations to support investment decisions.

Identify cost-optimization opportunities across the transportation network to influence transportation spend through data-driven insights and recommendations.

Evaluate tradeoffs between cost, service, and risk to inform decision-making.

Manage the Freight Invoice Audit process in partnership with external auditors, Accounts Payable (AP), Network Operations, and other stakeholders.

Sustainability & Performance Reporting

Contribute data, metrics, and Transportation sustainability program information to support the Brooks Annual Sustainability Report by partnering with carrier partners to gather data.

Identify opportunities for reducing carbon emissions in line with Inbound Transportation goals and the Brooks Corporate Responsibility (CR) team.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence

Act as a thought partner to Transportation and Supply Chain leadership, providing insights and challenging assumptions to improve outcomes.

Lead cross-functional working sessions to ensure alignment and accountability across stakeholders where Transportation decisions have broader impact.

Present recommendations, risks, and performance insights to senior leadership, tailoring messaging to executive and cross-functional audiences.

Team Development & Mentorship

Mentor Transportation Analysts and project contributors, providing insights on analytical frameworks, problem solving, and transportation domain expertise.

Support onboarding and enablement of new team members, contributing to the development of team capabilities and best practices.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent combination of education and years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s)

7+ years of experience in transportation, supply chain, or related analytical roles

Lean Six Sigma certification, continuous improvement skills, or project management preferred

Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional transportation or supply chain initiatives with measurable business impact

Proven expertise in carrier strategy, sourcing, and performance management across multiple transportation modes

Advanced analytical capabilities with ability to translate data into strategic recommendations to influence decision-making

Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and develop solutions where standard processes may not exist

Demonstrated experience influencing senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in complex, global environments

Strong experience designing scalable processes, governance frameworks, and operating models

Advanced proficiency in transportation management systems (TMS) and analytics tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau

Experience working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with competing priorities

Experience mentoring, coaching, or developing team members

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating effective listening through concise, clear verbal and written communication

Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company

Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products, or other departments’ operations and/or morale; “connecting the dots”

Demonstration of innovation and initiative – always looking at improving our products and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details and help wherever necessary

Travel 10% throughout the year

Embraces and lives the Brooks values!