Transportation Sourcing Manager

📅 Start: nach Absprache | ⏳ Dauer: 1 year | 🕐 Auslastung: nach Absprache | 📍 Einsatzort: Beerse, Belgium

Location Beerse Hours/week

Tasks

• Support and, where assigned, lead regional sourcing activities for MT Optimize, with primary focus on last-mile and parcel requirements arising from regional network changes.

• Translate regional business and operational requirements into fit-for-purpose sourcing strategies, market-engagement plans, RFI/RFP packages, bid structures, evaluation criteria and award recommendations.

• Build and maintain a consolidated view of regional sourcing pipelines and implementation roadmaps across affected countries, sites, customer channels and go-live milestones.

• Work with regional Procurement leads and cross-functional teams to establish clear governance, decision rights, risks, dependencies and escalation paths for each regional sourcing initiative.

• Conduct regional supply-market analysis and identify qualified local, regional and multinational carriers capable of meeting service, capacity, quality, compliance and technology requirements.

• Develop fact-based commercial models, including baselines, lane/shipment profiles, rate structures, accessorials, fuel mechanisms, indexation, minimum charges and total-cost scenarios.

• Lead or support supplier negotiations and contracting for regional sourcing initiatives, in partnership with Legal, regional Procurement and relevant subject-matter experts.

• Prepare regional sourcing recommendations and stakeholder decision materials, clearly articulating value, trade-offs, risks and implementation implications.

• Support regional award implementation and handover, including carrier onboarding, rate-card readiness, operating procedures, systems/data requirements and operational cutover.

• Support the establishment of post-award performance governance and track regional contractual commitments, savings, service and implementation milestones.

• Promote consistency in sourcing approaches, commercial terms and supplier solutions across regions, while allowing for legitimate country and operational requirements.

• Consolidate regional status updates for Transportation Procurement and MT Optimize leadership, escalating material risks that could affect regional go-live milestones or customer service.

Requirements

• Minimum

• 6 years of relevant experience

• in strategic sourcing, category management, transportation procurement or logistics.

• Strong knowledge of transportation commercial models; direct parcel, courier, express or last-mile sourcing experience is required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Finance or a related discipline.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex sourcing projects from requirements definition through negotiation, contracting and implementation is preferredAbility to analyse spend, shipment, lane, service and supplier data and convert findings into sourcing and negotiation strategies.

• Proven project-management capability in cross-functional, regional or transformation environments.

• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation, stakeholder-management and executive-communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple sourcing waves, changing requirements and time-critical implementation dependencies.

• Fluent written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage.

• Advantageous:

• Experience with large-scale distribution-network redesign, site transitions or go-to-market changes.