Senior Outbound Transportation Manager (Remote)

Stryker; Portage (MI); Remote; USD 118,000 - 255,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription drug insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

A leading medical technology company is seeking a Senior Outbound Transportation Manager. This remote role focuses on driving cost efficiency and operational excellence across the distribution network. Candidates should have significant transportation experience, alongside a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. The position requires strong analytical skills and the ability to manage cross-functional relationships. Competitive salary and extensive benefits offered as part of the employment package.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in transportation within manufacturing or distribution.
• Strong knowledge of cost drivers in transportation segments.
• Excellent skills in interpreting financial data.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement projects for cost savings.
• Lead transportation reviews with stakeholders.
• Monitor and analyze transportation cost reports.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost reduction strategies

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field

Job description

What you will do

Join a high-performing transportation and logistics team that is driving cost efficiency, operational excellence, and service reliability across Stryker’s U.S. distribution network. As Senior Outbound Transportation Manager (Remote), you will drive policy development, optimization efforts, and best practice sharing across several divisions of Stryker for shipping activity to our customers.

You will serve as the lead transportation representative from our Global Transportation and Trade (GTT) Center of Excellence to your assigned divisions. This role partners closely with Transportation Operations, Indirect Procurement, Finance, Commercial Leadership, Customer Service, and Logistics to ensure disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and alignment to Stryker’s service and cost objectives. The employee can work 100% virtually in the US without any set territory or proximity required. This role requires 20% travel to manufacturing and distribution sites within our network on a per project basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and execute continuous improvement projects that drive cost out of our outbound transportation activities.
• Lead regular transportation reviews with internal stakeholders across functions within your assigned divisions.
• Develop deep relationships and be a trusted thought partner for our commercial, finance, and operations organizations as applicable for your assigned divisions.
• Monitor and analyze weekly and monthly cost reports, identifying variances, risks, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Develop and own clear routing instruction for carrier, mode, and service selection and drive routing compliance.
• Serve as escalation point for transportation issues, leading root cause analysis and corrective action plans while also creating pathways for fast self-serve resolution.
• Review monthly spend versus budget and partner with Finance to communicate trends, risks, and savings opportunities.
• Act as the primary liaison for all transportation topics across internal stakeholders, including Procurement, Commercial, Transportation, and Logistics.
• Serve as the conduit between operations and indirect procurement to ensure that business requirements are well captured in transportation SOWs and SLAs.

What you will need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, transportation, business, operations, or related field.
• 10 years of experience in transportation in a high-volume manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Strong working knowledge and experience with cost drivers in parcel, LTL, and truckload segments of the transportation industry.
• Excellent financial and analytical skills with the ability to interpret cost, utilization, and performance data.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cost reduction through governance, optimization, and operational discipline.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and manage complex vendor relationships.
• Exercises sound judgment and balances risk and reward in dynamic and ambiguous environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field.
• Experience in a regulated, medical device, or healthcare distribution environment.
• Experience with final mile premium couriers in healthcare.
• Dedicated fleet experience.

$118,000 - $255,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Posted Date: 03/31/2026. This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.