This is a hybrid position. Please do not apply unless you are local to our office in Lansdale, PA.The Opportunity:The Supply Chain team plays an integral part in maintaining Keystone's Light Made Easy promise. The team increases competitiveness and customer satisfaction by maximizing service levels and minimizing costs. With a multitude of players in Keystone's global supply chain, the Logistics Manager oversees all cargo in transit and ensures all parties - suppliers, sales personnel, operations personnel and customers - have reliable and timely information relating to the delivery of goods. The person in this role leads a highly performing team of internal associates in conjunction with a variety of transportation partners, with the ultimate objective of meeting customer demand.
Your Impact:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 3 to 4 Logistics team members, including goal setting, performance evaluations, career development, and ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures.
- Lead change management efforts for new processes, tools, and systems within the Logistics Department, gaining buy-in from internal teams and external partners and driving sustained adoption.
- Serve as a key member of major system implementations, most notably a Transportation Management System (TMS), including requirements gathering, testing, process redesign, and user training.
- Develop and maintain KPIs and performance metrics for logistics operations, and use them to identify problems, drive improvement, and hold internal teams and partners accountable.
- Manage and analyze inbound transportation spend against budget, report on cost drivers and variances, and identify opportunities to improve service levels while reducing overall logistics costs.
- Lead cost savings initiatives across inbound logistics, with a focus on container management and the reduction of Extra Container Fees (demurrage, detention, storage, prepull, and other accessorial container charges).
- Manage the booking process of all ocean and air bookings with suppliers and forwarders.
- Maintain critical data in the company's ERP for tracking the movement of cargo in transit with a high degree of accuracy.
- Audit system inputs to ensure data accuracy.
- Work with transportation partners and warehouse teams to schedule deliveries and process shipment receipts.
- Work with the procurement team to provide costs and routing information needed to make expediting decisions.
- Arrange special-order shipments and monitor to completion.
- Work with procurement, fulfillment, and sales teams, as well as suppliers and forwarders, to identify and resolve challenges in meeting customer demand.
- Ensure accurate billing from suppliers, forwarders, and transportation partners.
- Coordinate Product Quality corrective actions.
- Manage the direct-to-customer drop ship process.
- Manage P21 external supplier inventory locations.
What you bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive logistics leadership experience. Experience managing a team is required.
- Demonstrated experience leading system implementations and change initiatives, including gaining buy-in from internal teams and external partners, training staff, and sustaining adoption after go-live; TMS implementation experience is required.
- Superior Microsoft Excel Skills.
- Excellent technical and analytical skills, and the ability to learn new systems quickly; experience with Prophet 21, SQL, and/or Smoothie preferred.
- Superior organizational skills and discipline, and the ability to lead a team with the same qualities.
- Proactive in using AI platforms to streamline workflows, reduce manual work, and develop efficiencies within the Logistics department.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Uphold and implement Keystone's Core Values, consistently aligning actions and decisions that reflect the core principles.
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.
