Senior Manager, Global Transportation & Logistics Strategy

The J.Jill Group; Quincy, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

401(k) retirement plan with match

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

J.Jill seeks a Senior Manager, Global Transportation to lead international and domestic freight, small parcel operations, and carrier performance. You will oversee budgeting, forecasts, and cost optimization while balancing speed and service for inventory availability and customer satisfaction.

The role requires working with Sourcing, Planning, Distribution, Finance, and other teams to align transportation strategies with company goals and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of international import logistics, domestic transportation, freight forwarding, and carrier management.
• Ability to negotiate transportation contracts and manage complex service-provider relationships.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, freight-cost analysis, and cost-to-serve evaluation.
• Ability to interpret logistics data, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Experience developing KPIs, executive-level reporting, carrier scorecards, and corrective action plans.
• Knowledge of transportation management systems, supply chain visibility tools, ERP systems, and freight audit and payment processes.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with business intelligence and data-visualization tools preferred.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and respond effectively to supply chain disruptions.
• Strong people-leadership, coaching, and talent-development capabilities.
• Continuous-improvement mindset with a high degree of accountability, curiosity, and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of international and domestic transportation strategies that support company service, inventory, and financial objectives.
• Lead carrier and freight-forwarder sourcing, contract negotiations, rate management, capacity planning, and service-level agreement development.
• Establish and monitor carrier and freight-forwarder performance through scorecards, business reviews, corrective action plans, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Oversee the authorization, booking, movement, tracking, and delivery of import shipments while balancing cost, speed, capacity, and service reliability.
• Establish carrier and freight-forwarder performance standards and lead scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Develop transportation forecasts, capacity plans, and floor-set shipment visibility to support Distribution, Sourcing, Planning and Allocation, and other business partners.
• Monitor shipment milestones, market conditions, and supply chain risks; lead cross-functional response plans to minimize inventory and service disruptions.
• Define, analyze, and communicate logistics KPIs, including on-time performance, transit time, booking compliance, cost per unit, capacity utilization, exceptions, and provider performance.
• Identify and implement network optimization, cost-reduction, service-improvement, technology, automation, and shipment-visibility opportunities.
• Develop and manage the transportation budget, freight forecasts, accruals, rate schedules, and financial performance. Investigate material variances and implement corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance and service providers to improve freight-audit accuracy, resolve billing discrepancies, and reduce avoidable accessorial charges.
• Maintain effective freight-audit, invoice-approval, accessorial-control, customs, transportation, and recordkeeping processes in partnership with Finance, internal stakeholders, and external providers.
• Recruit, coach, develop, and evaluate team members while establishing clear priorities, accountability, and performance expectations.
• Lead special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

International logistics

Freight forwarding

Carrier management

Budgeting & forecasting

KPIs & reporting

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management

Equivalent education & experience

Tools

ERP systems

Excel

BI tools

Job description

J.Jill seeks a Senior Manager, Global Transportation to lead international and domestic freight, small parcel operations, and carrier performance. You will oversee budgeting, forecasts, and cost optimization while balancing speed and service for inventory availability and customer satisfaction.

The role requires working with Sourcing, Planning, Distribution, Finance, and other teams to align transportation strategies with company goals and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain.