Location
Alpharetta, GA, United States
Posted on
Mar 01, 2022
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Job Summary
This position will be catalyst to transform air or ocean product. The incumbent is responsible for providing thorough and value-added analysis, followed by insightful and relevant recommendations. This role collaborates with cross functional support teams to develop and coordinate implementation of strategies that will generate profitability and growth opportunities. The incumbent must understand market conditions and operational capabilities across their region.
Responsibilities
Develops initiatives to offer competitive solutions and support lane expansion initiatives to foster revenue growth
Collaborates with region stake holders to develop cross functional commitment that is supportive of the bigger picture
Develops operations analysis tools/models through participation in cross functional teams and utilization of data warehousing technologies
Challenges current thinking with recommendations for new courses of action and ways of operating
Provides leadership and guidance for operation topics requiring research
Meets with executive and senior leadership to provide recommendations for operational and policy changes resulting from the analysis
Partners with other GFF business units with particular focus on collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Industrial Engineering, Procurement, and Strategy group
Identifies key triggers and drivers of performance to develop comprehensive competitive strategies
Provides insights and alternatives to solve complex problems/challenges
Identifies opportunities for current solutions sets to work more closely and leverages the assets of the broader UPS enterprise to meet customer demands
Drives decision support through robust business case modelling
Challenges senior leadership and subject matter experts to “lean out” processes to reduce costs, simplify processes and improve the customer journey
Translates vision and high-level business concepts into viable process models for field deployment
Evaluates new business requirement, identify current performance, and forecast future state, isolate and plan for most effective approach
Coordinates, captures, synthesizes and analyzes competitive insights from various channels, maintaining robust competitor profiles that synthesize key insights
Leads financial planning and analysis activities including preparation of long-range forecast/budgets
Identifies key business drivers to measure and report underlying business opportunities/risks and provides inputs for operational decisions
Determines appropriate resource requirements and set goals, implement, evaluate progress and results
Identifies improvement opportunities in processes and tools through thought leadership, technology, customer feedback and automation
Preferences
Possesses knowledge of Business, Industry and Financial trends
Demonstrates knowledge of Freight Forwarding operations
Displays strategic customer partnership and solves complex problems
Demonstrates knowledge of Supply Chain Management
Master’s degree (or internationally comparable degree)
UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law
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