Routing Manager

Outbound Shipment Manager

The primary purpose of this position is to manage the administration of daily outbound shipments to customers and other distribution centers within the organization by ensuring routes are scheduled and sequenced in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner. Must ensure a safe and secure working environment and operate in a profitable manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Ensure optimum delivery reliability to the customer by analyzing existing routes and driving improved efficiencies.
• Initiate and support routing projects to reduce overall miles, increase on time, reduce goal distance, optimize depots and service territory, and cross-divisional transfers.
• Drives and supports important routing metrics : On Time, Cases / Truck / Mile / Stop, Goal Distance.
• Ensure routes are scheduled and sequenced in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
• Anticipates, analyzes and troubleshoots problems with routes and devises cost-effective and legal solutions; and acts to implement same.
• Prepare and / or analyze various reports on a daily and / or weekly basis. Works closely with sales and warehouse departments to determine delivery feasibility.
• Proactively review service and cost place improvement by identifying strategic depot locations.
• Schedule and facilitate routing meetings with sales leadership team to review and align on delivery time windows and optimization of routes.
• Responsible for achieving fuel and miles savings by improving goal distance.
• Manages support of the routers.
• Counsels, consults, communicates, instructs and monitors direct-reporting employees in acceptable practices and within department and company policies and procedures. Further develops routers by facilitating or arranging for appropriate and timely training.
• Acts as a change agent for the routing department to optimize functions.
• Works with transparency in processes and decision making. Strategically plans for future changes or optimization within the department.
• Acts as an owner of the routing department and provides leadership to those within department through recognition, encouragement, and rewards.

Supervision : Routers

Relationships :

Qualifications :

Compensation depends on relevant experience and / or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example : state minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between $55,000 - $110,000.