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!