Koch Industries

Regional Category Manager, Logistics Services

Koch Industries$110K — $125K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or related field
  • Experience in procurement, sourcing, logistics, transportation, and warehousing
  • Proven track record in negotiating supplier agreements and managing vendor relationships
  • Strong analytical skills for interpreting spend, cost, and performance data
  • Familiarity with transportation modes including truck, rail, ocean, and air freight
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%

Responsibilities

  • Support sourcing strategies for transportation, warehousing, and customs brokerage services across the Americas
  • Lead supplier negotiations and contract management for logistics providers
  • Analyze logistics spend to identify cost-saving opportunities
  • Develop strong relationships with suppliers to enhance service and innovation
  • Monitor logistics market trends and capacity issues
  • Collaborate with operations, finance, and business leaders to synchronize sourcing efforts
  • Implement performance management for suppliers through scorecards and reviews
  • Contribute to regional and global procurement initiatives to enhance efficiency

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential for infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

As the Regional Category Manager - Logistics Services, you will support the sourcing, procurement, and supplier management activities for transportation, warehousing, and customs brokerage services across the Americas. Working closely with supply chain, operations, finance, and regional business partners, you will execute category strategies, lead sourcing events, negotiate supplier agreements, and identify opportunities to improve cost, service, and operational performance.

What You Will Do

  • Support category strategies across transportation, warehousing, and customs brokerage services throughout the Americas
  • Lead sourcing events, supplier negotiations, and contract management activities for regional logistics providers
  • Analyze transportation, warehousing, and logistics spend to identify cost savings, performance improvements, and supply chain efficiencies
  • Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships to drive service, innovation, and value creation
  • Monitor market trends, rates, capacity constraints, and industry developments across trucking, rail, ocean, air freight, warehousing, and brokerage services
  • Partner with operations, supply chain, finance, and business leaders to align sourcing activities with business objectives
  • Support supplier performance management, including scorecards, business reviews, and corrective action plans
  • Contribute to regional and global procurement initiatives that improve network efficiency and standardize best practices
  • Utilize data and analytics to support decision-making and measure sourcing impact


Skills & Capabilities

  • Supplier Management & Negotiation: Builds productive supplier relationships and negotiates agreements that balance cost, service, and risk.
  • Business & Financial Acumen: Understands key logistics cost drivers and evaluates sourcing decisions through a value-focused lens.
  • Analytical Mindset: Uses data, market intelligence, and performance metrics to identify opportunities and drive improvements.
  • Collaboration & Influence: Works effectively across functions and regions to align priorities and achieve business outcomes.
  • Execution Excellence: Manages multiple projects simultaneously and delivers results in a fast-paced environment.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field
  • Experience in procurement, sourcing, logistics, transportation, warehousing, customs brokerage, and/or third-party logistics services
  • Experience negotiating supplier agreements and managing vendor relationships
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret spend, cost, and operational performance data
  • Understanding of transportation modes including truck, rail, ocean, and air freight
  • Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience supporting regional category strategies within logistics or supply chain functions
  • Knowledge of transportation markets, freight pricing, warehousing operations, and customs brokerage services
  • Experience with sourcing methodologies, supplier performance management, and contract administration
  • Strong financial analysis skills, including cost modeling and value tracking
  • Experience working across multiple countries within North America


For this role, we anticipate paying $110,000 - $125,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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