Manager Logistics and Transportation

About Kennametal

With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear‑resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023.

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The Manager of Logistics and Transportation is responsible for driving performance and reliability within the transportation network, developing and executing transportation strategies, and executing key project initiatives within logistics and distribution that will lead to best‑in‑class logistics operations. In this role, you will collaborate with functional and operational stakeholders to develop targeted improvement plans to increase service to our customers while reducing transportation and operational costs.

This role will also focus on building high‑impact partnerships with 3PL partners and carriers to optimize network performance and service. You will be a key leader and change agent within supply chain and logistics, transforming strategic objectives into programs/projects, and ultimately, results. The Manager of Logistics and Transportation is expected to be a hands‑on leader: developing logistics analyses, reports and models, and running projects personally in addition to utilizing team resources to ensure productive and high‑quality outcomes.

• Lead in a way that improves performance toward Enterprise Key Results. Lead and demonstrate the highest commitment to safety and integrity.
• Partner with business segments and functional stakeholders, and lead Logistics and Transportation activities within the company, championing standardization of best practices across the various operating models globally.
• Develop, implement, and leverage repeatable Logistics and Transportation methodologies and frameworks to rapidly deploy initiatives.
• Craft a comprehensive program to improve performance and orchestration of all logistics (e.g., freight, parcel, cross‑dock, warehousing, operations).
• Define, staff, and lead logistics performance improvement projects working directly with executive leadership, supply chain leadership team, partners, and stakeholders to define scope and drive deployment.
• Serve as subject matter authority in logistics performance standards.
• Investigate evolving industry and functional best practices, defining and implementing new capabilities and maturing processes through a strong project management approach.
• Lead and manage various Logistics projects within the distribution key work to drive key initiatives.
• Manage Regional Transportation Management resources: ensure proactive review of transportation performance & spend, and enable continuous review / optimization of transportation flows along with cost reduction and lead‑time improvement opportunities.
• Keep transportation service providers accountable, identify service performance issues, lead transportation management resources in tracking & tracing delayed shipments, and bring collaborative resolution to freight issues.
• Govern the performance and reliability metrics in logistics across the world, support the root‑cause analysis for gaps and guide the improvement.
• Develop new models, reports, and analytics to be adopted globally to improve and automate logistics planning, execution, and reporting.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing on 3PL partner selection, performance management, and maintaining strong network relationships.
• Partner with Information Technology and leverage Supply Chain Analytics resources to drive data transparency and harmonization where necessary for reporting.
• Lead regular network meetings to understand and provide support to close gaps and share best…