Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc

Senior Manager, Global Logistics Management

Transportation
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, transportation, engineering, business, or related field
  • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience
  • Demonstrated problem solving and strategic leadership skills
  • Experience leading teams and building consensus with stakeholders
  • Strong communication skills for presenting strategic direction to senior leadership

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute global transportation strategies for efficient logistics operations
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives across transportation and warehousing
  • Collaborate with senior management to align logistics strategy with business objectives
  • Establish and monitor SOPs, KPIs, and benchmarks for operations
  • Serve as the main point of contact for selecting 3PL providers
  • Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships to optimize costs
  • Drive process improvement and digital transformation using technology

Benefits

  • Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage
  • Employer HSA contribution
  • Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Short & Long-Term Disability
  • 401K with generous Company match & contribution
  • Robust employee wellness program
  • Tuition assistance program
Full Job Description

Benefits:

The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the company’s discretion.

  • Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage

  • Employer HSA contribution

  • Dental & Vision Insurance

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Short & Long-Term Disability

  • Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance

  • 401K with generous Company match & contribution

  • Accrued Paid Time Off

  • 12 Paid Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday

  • Robust employee wellness program

  • Tuition assistance program

Job Description:

Job summary:

Responsible for leading end-to-end transportation operations and third-party logistics (3PL) strategy across domestic and international networks, ensuring efficiency, compliance, cost control, and strategic alignment with global supply chain objectives.

Key responsibilities:

Strategic and Operational Leadership:

  • Develops and executes global transportation strategies, aligning with organizational goals and enabling cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable logistics operations. This includes overseeing domestic, regional, and international freight movements across multiple modes such as truckload, LTL, intermodal, ocean, and air freight.
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives across transportation and warehousing.
  • Collaborate with senior management to integrate logistics strategy into overall business objectives.
  • Leads cross functional projects as directed to achieve transportation and 3PL service improvements aligned with business goals.
  • Establishing and monitoring standard operating procedures (SOPs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and benchmarks for transportation and distribution operations.
  • Serve as the main point of contact for selecting 3PL providers, ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Negotiate contracts, monitor performance, and manage vendor relationships to optimize costs and service quality.

Budgeting and Financials:

  • Responsible for setting and managing transportation budgets, forecasting costs, and identifying opportunities for cost optimization while maintaining service quality and operational reliability.

Process Improvement and Digital Transformation:

  • Drives continuous improvement initiatives, standardizing transportation processes, leveraging technology and automation, and enhancing digital capabilities like Transportation Management Systems (TMS), shipment visibility platforms, and analytics dashboards

Team Leadership and Development:

  • Lead and develop a high‑performing, inclusive team by providing ongoing coaching and performance feedback, driving engagement and retention initiatives, and ensuring full compliance with Allison policies while effectively managing employee relations matters.

Key performance measures:

  • Cost Efficiency & Financial Performance
  • Service Level & Delivery Performance
  • Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
  • Inventory & Supply Chain Performance
  • Risk Management, Compliance & Sustainability

Competencies and behaviors:

  • Adhering to the highest standards in what we do. We succeed through integrity, trust, and quality as we drive for results.
  • Drive a positive customer experience. We deliver better outcomes when we understand our customers’ needs and execute appropriately.
  • Improve the way the world works.  We develop better solutions through innovation and a continuous desire to improve.
  • Leveraging the power of teamwork.  We develop better solutions by working together toward a common goal. 
  • High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult.
  • Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output.
  • Highly developed oral and written communications skills.
  • Complete knowledge of Corporate/unit traffic procedures.

Preferred:

  • Experience with international transportation.
  • Knowledge and experience in customs regulations.

Experience and qualifications:

Required:

·Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, transportation, engineering, business, or related field.

·12+ years of progressive leadership experience.  

·Demonstrated problem solving skills and strategic leadership.

·Demonstrated ability to lead teams and build consensus with key stakeholders.

·Strong communication skills, including ability to present and articulate strategic business direction in forums that include executive senior leadership.

·Demonstrated ability to link corporate operating plans to manufacturing and distribution capacity.  

·Demonstrated success in decision-making that has had significant impact on the business, most notably: customer satisfaction, operating expense, and regulatory compliance.

·Experience leading in matrix organizations where influence and negotiation skills are required to get tasks completed.

Preferred:

·MBA

·Experience leading in international, multi-site global environments

Travel Expectations

·International travel up to 25% to establish and maintain relationships

About Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc

Allison Transmission is an American manufacturer of commercial duty automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems. Allison products are specified by over 250 vehicle manufacturers and are used in many market sectors including bus, refuse, fire, construction, distribution, military and specialty applications. Allison was founded in 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company's global headquarters still resides today. Allison Transmission is the world's largest manufacturer of fully automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and is a leader in hybrid-propulsion systems for city buses.
Learn more about Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$3.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$299 million
Founded
1915
5 Year Trend
+5.5%
Revenue
$2 billion
NASDAQ

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