Transportation Logistics Manager in Training

Walgreens; Waxahachie (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking a Transportation Logistics Manager in Training to develop into a transportation leader across 12 fleet locations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The role focuses on transportation operations, route optimization, equipment management, and cost control, with 50–75% travel and potential relocation for future leadership opportunities.

The position emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration, vendor relations, safety, and compliance while delivering cost‑effective,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years OR High School/GED and at least 5 years of experience in a supply chain or business role.
• Experience negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal/external customers, such as vendors, drivers, etc.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (SUM, borders, charts, wrap, sort, headers/footers).
• At least 1 year of direct leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Creates or maintains a world class culture of safety.
• Plans, prepares, and forecasts annual budget. Accountable for financial results, meeting or exceeding annual budget based on indicators.
• Plans, manages, controls and forecasts monthly departmental expenditures; ensures proper invoicing procedures.
• Develops and mentors staff through onboarding, training and performance management; weekly 1:1s and reviews.
• Monitors, analyzes fleet KPIs to meet or exceed service performance; takes corrective action.

Skills

Budgeting

Vendor negotiation

Relationship building

Leadership

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School/GED

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Job Summary

The Transportation Logistics Manager in Training is a developmental leadership role designed to prepare future transportation leaders through hands‑on experience across 12 fleet locations in the United States and Puerto Rico. This position supports operational initiatives, special projects, and leadership assignments while developing expertise in transportation operations, route optimization, equipment management, fleet utilization, safety, compliance, and cost management. The role partners with transportation leaders to drive operational performance, improve service levels, optimize transportation assets, and ensure the safe, compliant, and cost‑effective movement of goods. Through extensive field experience, project leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration, the incumbent will develop the skills necessary to assume future transportation leadership positions within the organization. 50‑75% travel with the ability and willingness to relocate for future leadership assignments based on business needs.

Job Responsibilities

• Creates or maintains a world class culture of safety.
• Plans, prepares, and forecasts annual budget. Accountable for financial results, meeting or exceeding annual budget based on a range of specific measurable indicators.
• Plans, manages, controls and forecasts monthly departmental expenditures against the budget; ensures department adheres to proper invoicing procedures with financial software requirements.
• Develops and mentors staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; activities include weekly one on one meetings, mid-year and annual reviews.
• Monitors, analyzes fleet KPIs to meet or exceed service performance measurements. Takes corrective action where KPI’s are not meeting expectations.
• Partners with all internal/external stakeholders, builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives. Builds relationship with store operational leaders to provide superior service; responds to feedback to create solutions to unique market requirements.
• Work as one team with vendors to plan and forecast short term and long term equipment and driver staffing requirements.
• Manages accident processing, claims, investigation, and corporate reporting.
• Leads a team to accomplish cost, service and safety goals; assigns, monitors and reviews progress and accuracy of work, direct efforts and provide technical guidance on more complex issues.
• Ensures the department adheres to established policies and procedures; develops, recommends and implements Best Practices.
• Oversees daily load planning, and scheduling of routes to ensure balance of distribution center workload while providing outstanding Store Service within budget.
• Drives opportunities to grow backhaul program, analyzes changes in current and future backhaul lanes; collaborates with corporate optimization team and vendor partners to identify new backhaul opportunities.
• Responsible for user level maintenance of systems that support transportation and logistics activities including warehouse management software, transportation management software, On Board Tractor computer and supporting software and dispatch software.
• Outlines specific objectives and processes that are focused on generating innovative solutions to critical business problems. Develops and submits ideas which support the achievement of innovative goals.
• Manages and works on issues of a diverse scope, where analysis of the situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends. Provides advanced expertise and knowledge in complex area of specialization.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years OR High School/GED and at least 5 years of experience in a supply chain or business role.
• Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal/external customers, such as vendors, drivers, etc.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• At least 1 years of experience of direct leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Willing to travel (50 to 75% of the time) and relocate as needed to support operational excellence, strategic initiatives, leadership coverage, business integrations, facility startups, and organizational growth opportunities.
• Experience managing private fleet operations.
• Lean Six Sigma certification or continuous improvement experience.
• Experience with route optimization and network planning.
• Knowledge of transportation technology, telematics, RFID, and asset-tracking systems.
• Multi-site transportation management experience.
• Core Competencies
• Transportation Operations Leadership
• Fleet Management
• Safety Leadership
• Financial Acumen
• Cost Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• Talent Development
• Continuous Improvement
• Strategic Thinking
• Customer Service Excellence
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Change Leadership

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary Range: $100000 - $175000 / Salaried