Director, Cold-Chain Transportation & Logistics (Remote)

McKesson Corporation; Shepherdsville (KY); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson Corporation seeks a strategic transportation leader to oversee domestic and international plasma and biologic product movement. You will design networks, optimize routes, manage carriers, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring compliance with cold-chain regulations.

You will lead teams across planning, carrier management, billing, forecasting, and customer support, guiding performance metrics and strategic initiatives for executive review.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in supply chain-related field.
• 12+ years of transportation, logistics, or distribution experience.
• 4+ years of people leadership managing managers or professionals.
• Experience leading transportation operations, routing, networks, or fleet management.
• Experience with third-party providers, carrier partnerships, and service performance.
• Experience with transportation cost management, freight spend analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Experience using TMS and transportation analytics tools.
• Proven ability to analyze data and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead transportation operations supporting domestic and international movement of plasma and biologic products.
• Direct route planning, transportation network design, fleet utilization, and carrier capacity management.
• Oversee carrier relationships, transportation contracts, performance scorecards, and vendor governance.
• Ensure transportation activities meet service, cost, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop transportation forecasts for volume, mileage, carrier capacity, fleet requirements, and budgets.
• Drive transportation billing accuracy, carrier invoice validation, dispute resolution, and revenue protection initiatives.
• Support customer growth initiatives, facility expansions, and transportation-related business development opportunities.
• Lead transportation responses for customer RFPs, including pricing strategy, cost modeling, and feasibility analysis.
• Partner with Quality and Operations teams to maintain compliance with cold-chain requirements, chain-of-custody processes, and transportation regulations.
• Develop and implement transportation performance metrics, KPIs, operational standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and develop managers and professional staff across transportation planning, carrier management, transportation billing, forecasting, and customer support functions.
• Present transportation performance, cost improvement opportunities, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership and customers.

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Transportation, or related field

Tools

TMS

Power BI

SAP

GPS tracking

Job description

McKesson Corporation seeks a strategic transportation leader to oversee domestic and international plasma and biologic product movement. You will design networks, optimize routes, manage carriers, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring compliance with cold-chain regulations.

You will lead teams across planning, carrier management, billing, forecasting, and customer support, guiding performance metrics and strategic initiatives for executive review.