Senior Transportation & Warehousing Manager

Overview

Hello potential future Oatly employee. It’s us, the original oatmilk company that started in Sweden back 25 or so years ago and has since expanded to the U.S. where we’ve continued growing at a rate that requires more brilliant minds to join us to sustain momentum and the oatmilk flow.

Sustainability, health, and transparency are the core values that guide everything we do. We exist to help people live a healthier life without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources, and to change the food system for the better. We drive that change through the power of oats and through a significant reduction in cow’s milk consumption. If this resonates with you, you may want to work for Oatly as well.

Now onto the formal stuff.

We are looking for a Senior Warehousing and Transportation Manager to join our North American team. This role will lead our warehousing and transportation teams while helping to develop and implement a strategy that enables Oatly North America to offer superior customer service while actively reducing carbon emissions and lowering the cost to serve our customers.

You will lead an integrated logistics team, own the relationships and contracts with our partners, and coach, mentor, and develop the transportation and warehousing associates from the point of manufacture through to the delivery at our customers  facilities.

Due to business needs, this role needs to be located in or around one of our hubs: NJ, PA, UT or NY.

• Overall

• In partnership with the Logistics Director, create, implement, refine, and communicate the regional supply chain strategy, considering manufacturing locations, customer geography, logistics partner performance, and future growth

• In Partnership with Global Supply Chain, share and implement best practices to improve efficiency across the global supply chain. Lead productivity initiatives for US integrated logistics to drive COGS improvements

• Ensure operational logistics targets are met with regard to OTIF, sustainability, and cost

• Accountable for all logistics providers’ delivery and cost performance

• In partnership with SHE, ensure the health and safety of ourselves, our partners, and our customers, with robust policies and procedures that are professionally trained and maintained, and that we regularly measure and report their effectiveness

• Transportation

• Lead transportation, implementing the supply chain strategy and process architecture. Create, monitor, and report transportation performance metrics to maximize business value via KPIs

• Benchmark cost structures for transportation, comparing to Oatly’s structure in the areas of cost per mile, sustainability, and service as measured by customer

• Using the benchmarks, identify the right mix of contracted vs spot lanes, the role of brokers, and what is necessary to optimize the Oatly North America transportation spend

• Develop and document the annual carrier bid process as appropriate based upon transportation segmentation

• Working with Finance, develop and implement transportation and warehousing KPIs, and track them, predicting spend, modeling costs, and highlighting areas of opportunity

• Oversee our OS&D to assist in recouping monies on lost items due to transportation failures; and

• Manage transportation costs to internal warehouses as well as to customers in alignment with annual budget and monthly forecasts

• Responsible for coordinating & conducting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)

• Spearhead TMS utilization becoming a systems expert

• Review the TMS needs for North American Team upgrades, automation, and EDI connections

• Accountable for the monthly and annual transportation budget

• Warehousing

• Lead warehousing, own the warehouse partner relationships, and build and maintain the warehousing cost models, to ensure that all Oatly products are safely received, stored, picked, and packed

• Through relationships with partners and financial discipline, drive efficiencies in all DCs

• Develop long-term case pack options in all warehouses to accommodate different case configurations

• Identify monthly drivers of B/(W) to budget and LE for both Warehousing and Transportation P&L line items

• Manage warehousing costs in alignment with…