Transportation Manager, Operations Support

  • Full-Time
  • Louisville, KY
  • McKesson
  • Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description

Empowering the delivery of excellent patient care starts with you. Every person’s job at RxCrossroads makes a difference in the lives of patients throughout the country. Our products and services touch the full continuum of specialty patient care. From the initial phases of a product life cycle and the distribution of specialty drugs, to fully integrated patient access systems, copay solutions and REMS administration, RxCrossroads supports biopharmaceutical manufacturers in taking their innovative and life-saving therapies from the lab to the patient.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Transportation the Transportation Manager, Operations Support is responsible for the daily operations of plasma and intra 3PL and McKesson product moves.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage day to day operations for a fleet of temperature-controlled equipment to meet customer service metrics safely and within established quality parameters

  • Leverage corporate volumes for internal moves to achieve optimal contracted routing and transportation methods

  • Track and analyze data for on-time reporting, billing and performance metrics and act as the primary contact for plasma client communications

  • Provide data and analytics for client presentations, cross functional teams and upper management related to volume, cost-improvement initiatives, security and service

  • Creates weekly schedules and communicates changes as necessary, collects data for operational moves and 3PL client moves for analytics to recommend cost savings initiatives, respond to RFPs, and conduct RFQs

  • Provides volume, route and market data for input to all carrier negotiations

  • Monitors and implements risk management process including factors such as traffic disruption by events or social gatherings, weather or other factors. Includes oversight of factors, monitoring and communication to potentially impacted business partners

  • Produce reports, presentations and other communications to deliver or support presentation to cross functional teams and clients

  • Responds to transportation alerts for cold chain fleet and facilitates responses as appropriate

  • Supports billing and invoice auditing processes

Typical Minimum Experience

  • 6+ years of transportation management experience preferably in a large multi-level organization including route management, cost management and team development for both domestic and international operations

  • 1+ years of leadership and team management experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, or relevant field

Critical Skills

  • Cold-chain transportation management experience

  • Proven leadership and management experience in transportation logistics including IATA, ECC, Import Export and Transportation Management systems

  • Experience managing the shipment or receipt of outgoing or incoming materials and products

  • Experience with evaluating and implementing improvements to distribution procedures to improve timeliness or reduce costs

  • Excellent computer skills, including a high degree of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

  • Ability to manage multiple sites including team members based in different locations

  • Ability to communicate effectively to Customers and Senior Management

Additional Skills

  • SAP and Mercury Gate experience a plus

  • Import / Export and Customs management experience including FTZs

  • Transportation auditing

Physical Requirements

  • Environment (Office, warehouse, etc.) – general office and some ability to work from home

  • General office demands (standing/sitting)

  • Regular local travel between sites and occasional overnight travel

  • Ability to conduct office activities and tours of facilities

Benefits & Company Statement

McKesson believes superior performance – individual and team – that helps us drive innovations and solutions to promote better health should be recognized and rewarded. We provide a competitive compensation program to attract, retain and motivate a high-performance workforce, and it’s flexible enough to meet the different needs of our diverse employee population.

We are in the business of better health and we touch the lives of patients in virtually every aspect of healthcare. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting.

But we can’t do it without you. Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission—whatever your title, whatever your role, you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe. Talented, compassionate people are the future of our company—and of healthcare. At McKesson, you’ll collaborate on the products and solutions that help us carry out our mission to improve lives and advance healthcare. Working here is your opportunity to shape an industry that’s vital to us all.

Equal Opportunity

McKesson is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer – minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.

Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

Agency Statement

No agencies please

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to McKessonTalentAcquisition@mckesson.com . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

Current employees must apply through the internal career site.

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