Truckload Procurement Leader: Build Teams & Scale Capacity

Evans Transportation Services, LLC; Tennessee; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Evans Transportation Services, LLC in Chattanooga seeks an office leader to own carrier procurement, performance, and culture. You will lead hiring, onboarding, and development for the team, while guiding account management and lane growth. The role requires a strong background in truckload brokerage and hands-on TMS expertise.

The candidate will drive KPIs, coach staff, and maintain Evans standards on the floor. This on-site leadership role emphasizes hiring, retention, and growth of core lanes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in truckload brokerage/3PL with at least 2 years leading people.
• Experience in a TMS and guiding team work from queues/boards; comfortable with AI/automation.
• Strong KPI/production target management, negotiation, and carrier vetting skills.

Responsibilities

• Own carrier procurement in the Chattanooga office: headcount, daily execution, performance.
• Provide day-to-day leadership presence for the full office, including account management.
• Own hiring for carrier procurement: define the profile, run interviews, and make hiring recommendations.
• Own onboarding and ramp so new hires reach productivity on a defined timeline.
• Train and coach the business: pricing logic, negotiation, carrier vetting, escalation judgment.
• Set written expectations for every carrier procurement seat and manage to them using KPIs and scorecards.
• Address underperformance early and directly; document it, coach it, and make the termination recommendation when needed.
• Grow the truckload business through carrier network development and repeat capacity.
• Own the office's carrier procurement growth number and report progress against it.
• Stay close to carriers and escalate without undermining the rep who owns the relationship.
• Ensure carrier coverage, load setup, and cost decisions meet Evans standards.
• Help build the sourcing strategy for Evans' core lanes - committed and repeat capacity where it makes sense, spot coverage where it does not.
• Own the quality of the handoff to Visibility so shipments arrive with the information required to track and manage them.
• Reinforce TMS discipline so carrier activity, rates, notes, and communication history live in the system of record.
• Partner with account management on site and with Sales leadership, Yield, and Visibility off site so the office does not solve problems in isolation.
• Identify recurring failures by person, process, customer, or carrier and address the root cause.
• Help evaluate and implement automation, AI, and technology that lets the office handle more freight without adding headcount for routine work.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Skills

People leadership

Hiring & onboarding

KPI management

Negotiation

Carrier vetting

Escalation management

Office discipline & work ethic

AI/Automation familiarity

Tools

TMS experience

AI & automation awareness

Job description

Evans Transportation Services, LLC in Chattanooga seeks an office leader to own carrier procurement, performance, and culture. You will lead hiring, onboarding, and development for the team, while guiding account management and lane growth. The role requires a strong background in truckload brokerage and hands-on TMS expertise.

The candidate will drive KPIs, coach staff, and maintain Evans standards on the floor. This on-site leadership role emphasizes hiring, retention, and growth of core lanes.