Job Description Summary: We are seeking an accomplished leader to serve as Senior Director, Global Logistics Network Optimization & Digitization within Global Logistics Services and Global Procurement. This role leads enterprise capabilities that improve how logistics networks are designed, sourced, optimized, digitized, and governed across a complex global supply chain. The Senior Director will lead a high-performing team responsible for network optimization, transportation sourcing digitization, data and analytics strategy, market intelligence, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate combines strategic vision, quantitative problem-solving, technology fluency, stakeholder influence, and people leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy and Leadership

- Define and execute the strategic roadmap for logistics optimization, digitization, analytics, and capability development across global and regional stakeholders.
- Translate business objectives into scalable transformation initiatives, governance models, investment priorities, and measurable value-delivery plans.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to procurement, supply chain, logistics, technology, and business leaders on network, sourcing, and digital capability decisions.

Network Optimization

- Lead transportation and logistics network modeling to improve flows, facility footprints, service models, inventory positioning, modal strategies, and network design.
- Evaluate tradeoffs among cost, service, capacity, resilience, sustainability, and operational feasibility to shape practical recommendations.
- Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps,



and repeatable methodologies that convert analytical insights into measurable results.

Digitization and Technology

- Define and advance the digitization strategy for transportation sourcing, rate management, scenario analysis, supplier assessment, reporting, and workflow processes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline manual activities through technology, automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and process redesign.
- Champion adoption of scalable, user-centered tools through effective stakeholder engagement, governance, change management, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.

Data, Analytics, and Market Intelligence

- Develop logistics data, analytics, and market intelligence capabilities that improve visibility, data quality, sourcing strategy, supplier insights, and business decision-making.
- Build dashboards, executive reporting, analytical products, and decision-support tools that translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
- Establish standards for data ownership, governance, taxonomy, definitions, and reusable analytical approaches across logistics teams.

Sourcing Capability and Value Delivery

- Partner with logistics category leaders and regional procurement teams to strengthen transportation sourcing, RFIs, RFPs, annual bids, mini-bids, supplier evaluation, and award recommendations.
- Apply network, supplier, market, demand,



and cost intelligence to improve sourcing decisions while respecting category ownership and decision rights.
- Build and maintain a pipeline of optimization, sourcing, digitization, productivity, risk mitigation, and value-realization opportunities.

Stakeholder and Change Leadership

- Partner effectively with procurement, supply chain, transportation, finance, technology, data, suppliers, and operating unit leaders in a global matrixed environment.
- Define project scope, governance, decision frameworks, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations while navigating ambiguity and evolving business needs.
- Communicate complex analytical findings in concise, executive-ready language and build alignment through credibility, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.

People Leadership

- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of logistics, optimization, sourcing, analytics, and digitization professionals.
- Establish explicit priorities, accountability, development plans, succession readiness, and a culture of curiosity, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Manage relationships with external consultants, technology providers, analytics partners, and solution vendors as needed.

Success Measures

- Deliver measurable logistics value through optimization, sourcing, analytics, digitization, productivity, and risk-reduction initiatives.
- Improve logistics network performance while balancing cost, service, resilience, sustainability, and operational feasibility.
- Increase adoption and effectiveness of digital tools, analytical capabilities, decision-support solutions, and reusable enterprise framework

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