Senior Transportation Excellence Analyst

Who We Are:

At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.

Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.

• Runner First – We act in the best interest of the runner.
• Word is Bond – We do what we say we’ll do.
• Champion Heart – We give our all in everything we do.
• There is no “I” in Run – We stay generous with our humanity.
• Keep Moving – We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!

Brooks is looking for a skilled Sr. Transportation Excellence Analyst to join Brooks Transportation team Seattle, WA as we enhance, update and implement transportation management systems and global processes. In this position, you will own documenting the E2E global transportation process and ensure new transportation use cases are supported by the right systems, partnerships, and processes. This role will build strategic goals through analysis of operational performance of our carrier partners to optimize costs and network performance.

You will Interface with SC Excellence, IT, Market Supply Planning, Sourcing, Customer Service and other cross‑functional teams to align Transportation processes, standards, and systems with broader Supply Chain & enterprise goals. You will support Transportation’s strategic network planning through partnerships with ocean, air, rail, and trucking carriers while collaborating with our Origin and Destination Network Operations Managers. You will collaborate with other subject matter experts to construct business cases with clearly defined requirements and financial analyses including calculated Returns on Investment (ROI).

For those business cases that evolve into projects, you will represent Transportation in the planning and analysis, design, testing and implementation phases. You may also assist with documenting business processes, business rules for data, and organizational roles and responsibilities.

• Collaborate with Sr. Manager of Inbound Transportation, Origin and Destination Network Operations Managers, and Transportation Director to define and document E2E Global Transportation roadmap.
• Challenge transportation leaders to build a transportation network that best serves the Runner by delivering capacity, consistent lead times, at optimal costs.
• Plan and lead RFPs and carrier rate negotiation analysis in partnership with Transportation Leadership.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Brooks’ carrier strategy to the Origin and Destination Network Operations Team.
• Lead collaboration with the Transportation team to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate opportunities and requirements for changes to business processes.
• Build and foster relationships with Brooks’ carrier partners.
• Own and drive the Inbound Transportation Management Maturity process to document as‑is and to‑be business processes to support the Transportation team’s maturity journey.
• Construct business cases for projects with clearly defined requirements and financial analyses including calculated Returns on Investment (ROI).
• In partnership with SC Excellence and IT teams, manage the testing process for Transportation projects including building use cases and test plans for integration and user acceptance testing, and leading user acceptance testing efforts.
• Own identification of technology issues during day‑to‑day work and problems surfaced in testing and lead tracking and resolution.
• Coordinate production and delivery of end‑user training and materials as new processes and technologies are implemented.
• Communicate and evangelize the introduction of new technology‑enabled capabilities.
• Contribute data and metrics and Transportation sustainability program information to support the Brooks Annual Sustainability Report by partnering with carrier partners to gather data.
• Identify opportunities for reducing carbon emissions in line with the Inbound Transportation and Brooks’ CSR team.
• Facilitate meetings…