Manager Regional Freight

Overview

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.  For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials.  Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers. 

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

Leadership Competencies

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

• Strategic Mindset – anticipates future trends and implications accurately
• Decision Quality – relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions
• Customer Focus – identifies opportunities that benefit the business
• Business Insight – keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace
• Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions
• Optimizes Work Processes – seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering
• Ensures Accountability – establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results
• Collaborates – works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives
• Develops Talent – develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments
• Builds Effective Teams – forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience
• Drives Vision and Purpose – talks about future possibilities in a positive way
• Courage – faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

Responsibilities

The Regional Freight Manager is responsible for providing overall leadership to the freight function within an assigned geography.  Through multiple Freight Manager direct reports, the incumbent will ensure the safe operations of the ADS internal fleet, service delivery levels are maintained and operational efficiencies such as payload and miles per gallon are maximized.  While reporting to the Corporate Freight Manager, the incumbent will have strong partnerships with the Plant Managers, Regional Managers and Sales Leaders within his/her assigned geography to ensure customer expectations are met and exceeded. 

Preferred Experience:

 The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Provide overall leadership for a team of Freight Managers (directly) and professional drivers (indirectly)
• Ensure the safety of all drivers by instilling a culture of safety, providing proper PPE, performing root cause analysis of any incidents and instituting appropriate corrective measures
• Maximize payload and routing efficiency to drive cost out of the network
• Maintain appropriate staffing levels of drivers to meet customer commitments balanced with cost
• Drive improvements in OTIFNE (On Time in Full No Errors) delivery performance
• Form partnerships with operations and sales to understand operational and customer needs
• Manage fleet maintenance schedule to ensure equipment is operating safely and equipment downtime is minimized
• Manage assets within assigned geography to ensure ADS as the right type and quantity of assets at all times

Job Skills:

This position should possess the following skills/knowledge:

• Demonstrated ability to analyze data to provide business intelligence that drives decision making (often found in a LEAN environment.)
• Demonstrated proficiency in logistics process and technology
• Ability to lead a dispersed workforce in an uncontrolled environment
• Cross functional communicator with the ability to break down technical information to non- technical people

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Business or equivalent education and experience
• Logistics major preferred

Preferred Experience:

• 7 – 10 years in logistics leadership roles
• High financial acumen typically gained through direct P&L management
• Strong knowledge of industry trends particularly related to analytics and technology

EEO Statement

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.