Logistics Supervisor

Sherpa | Recruiting, Staffing & Consulting; Rock Hill (SC); On-site; USD 63,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherpa | Recruiting, Staffing & Consulting is seeking a Logistics Supervisor to lead a high-performing team and drive a clear vision for logistics supporting customers, operations, and profitability.

The role focuses on building carrier relationships, managing freight costs, and developing capabilities across multimodal transportation. You will partner with stakeholders to ensure service, safety, and cost targets are met.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in logistics, transportation, or supply chain roles.
• 3+ years leading logistics teammates or cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strategic carrier relationships.
• Establish regular carrier reviews and performance.
• Develop carrier mix by lane based on needs.
• Share forecasts with partners to improve planning.
• H​old carriers accountable with performance discussions.
• Represent client in carrier meetings and industry events.
• Identify and execute freight cost-saving opportunities.
• Develop annual freight improvement objectives and track progress.
• Evaluate pricing and mode opportunities; collaborate cross-functionally.
• Communicate savings and remaining opportunities via scorecards.
• Set team vision, rhythms, and measures of success.
• Develop future leaders and succession plans.

Skills

Carrier management

Freight analysis

Team leadership

Tools

TMS

Job description

Compensation: To $105K

Job Overview – Logistics Supervisor – 34483

The Logistics Supervisor will build and lead a high-performing logistics team while developing a clear, measurable vision for how logistics supports our client’s customers, operations, and profitability. This leader will establish trusted, long-term relationships with core truck, rail, barge, transload, and logistics partners; use market intelligence and freight data to identify sustainable cost-saving opportunities; and create the processes, capabilities, and accountability needed to execute our client’s division-wide logistics strategy

Essential Functions:

Carrier Relationship Development and Capacity Strategy

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with core carriers, railroads, barge providers, transload partners, brokers, and third-party logistics providers.
• Establish regular carrier business reviews using service, cost, capacity, tender acceptance, safety, and on-time delivery performance.
• Develop an intentional carrier mix by lane, balancing asset-based, contracted, committed, dedicated, and spot capacity based on client’s service and commercial needs.
• Share forecasts and expected lane volumes with strategic partners to improve planning, capacity availability, and service reliability.
• Hold carriers accountable through clear expectations and fact-based performance discussions while maintaining mutually beneficial long-term partnerships.
• Represent client in carrier meetings, industry events, and Logistics Group initiatives.

Freight Cost Management and Value Creation

• Identify, quantify, prioritize, and execute freight cost-saving opportunities using lane-level, mode, carrier, accessorial, utilization, and market-rate analysis.
• Develop annual freight improvement objectives and maintain a documented pipeline of cost, service, and capacity opportunities.
• Evaluate contract versus spot pricing, mode conversion, consolidation, backhaul, dedicated capacity, transload, routing, and carrier-allocation opportunities.
• Partner with Logistics Group, Finance, Commercial, Operations, and facility teams to validate results and ensure savings do not compromise safety, service, or customer commitments.
• Communicate realized savings, cost avoidance, service improvements, and remaining opportunities through recurring scorecards and leadership reporting.

Team Leadership and Organizational Development

• Establish and communicate a clear logistics team vision, operating model, responsibilities, priorities, and measures of success.
• Assess current team capability and create individual development plans that build expertise in carrier management, freight analysis, systems, multimodal transportation, and operational execution.
• Establish regular team operating rhythms, including KPI reviews, carrier strategy reviews, cost-opportunity reviews, and continuous-improvement planning.
• Build a culture of ownership, responsiveness, disciplined execution, collaboration, and constructive accountability.
• Develop future leaders and create sustainable succession coverage for key logistics responsibilities.
• Lead the team through organizational and process changes while maintaining teammate engagement and customer service.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressive logistics, transportation, supply chain, carrier management, or related experience
• 3+ years leading logistics teammates, functions, or significant cross-functional logistics initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

TMS experience

Additional Job Details

About our Process

• We will notify you if you are selected as a candidate for this role. If not, but you fit our specializations, we'll consider you for future openings.
• Non-Local Candidates: Please note that you are competing with local candidates who don’t require relocation expenses and can start quickly, so let us know if you have plans to move to the area soon.
• Candidates for all Sherpa opportunities must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Sherpa is an Equal Opportunity Employer.