Transport Manager - Europe & RoW

Do you want to join an extraordinary team developing world-leading products that make it easy to bring along the things you care for – easily, securely and in style – when living an active life? Are you a team player who thrives in the complex area of Transport in a sustainability-driven environment where our growth plans will increase the focus on Transport solutions and seamless process?

Welcome with your application!

About the position

The job as a Transport Manager includes:

- Being responsible for inbound and outbound transports for Thule Group within region EROW as well as purchasing & contract negotiation while ensuring RFQ’s are completed to obtain the wished for service levels and the right price.

- Supporting the transport administration team in Poland while applying pressure to forwarders to solve issues as and when they arise including working with forwarders to put actions in place and when needed manage escalation of forwarder issues.
- Responsible for ensuring that Thule Group forwarders and supply chain manage the increased share of Business-To-Consumer sales
- Drive continuous improvements by analysing current ways of working to identify improvement opportunities and potential synergies within the distribution network with the aim of reducing lead time, cost and climate impact.
- Drive sustainability initiatives within transportation (increase efficiency by reducing distances, optimizing packaging and maximizing capacity utilization, reduce transportation by air and replace road freight with rails shipment)
- Consolidate global spend and set tracking metrics for performance management.
- Drive digitalisation & visualization of transports, costs and CO2-emissions related to transports.
- Participate and support in projects, representing the transportation part of the supply chain .
- Explore and drive implementation of automated systems to handle transport related processes within Thule Group.
- Attend and drive quarterly forwarder meetings to monitor performance, ongoing actions and strategy.

About the candidate

We trust you have experience from a similar role or from an operational role at a larger forwarder and it would be advantageous if you had experience of working with transport for a FMCG company. We believe you have worked in an international environment, operationally in more than one function and preferably with experience from customs procedures and regulations.

To do this with success you need a driving personality with ability to challenge yourself and others around you, to be highly motivated and results-driven as well as being a strong negotiator. We require excellent communication skills in English and a problem solving, decision-making mindset.

We believe in strong team work both within your own team but also across teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization, sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another. Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the active lifestyle we enable. We share the same values and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it.

Application

If you believe you would enjoy working in such an environment and feel that the professional tasks will be challenging, please submit your application no later than 14 november 2021. The position reports to Kajsa Kristensen, our Director Distribution Region EROW and is based in our headquarter in Malmö.


We look forward to your application!

About Thule Group
Thule Group is a global world leading company of products for sports and outdoor activities. We make it easy for people to bring the things they care for, easily, securely and in style, when living an active life. Under the motto Active Life, Simplified. we design, manufacture and sell products within the four product categories Sport&Cargo Carriers (roof racks, roof boxes and carriers for transporting cycling, water and winter sports equipment, as well as roof top tents for mounting on cars), Active with Kids (bike trailers, strollers and child bike seats), RV Products (awnings, bike racks and tents for motorhomes and caravans) and Packs, Bags & Luggage (everyday backpacks, hiking bike packs travel luggage and camera bags).
Thule Group has about 2,600 employees at 9 production facilities and 35 sales offices worldwide. The Group’s products are sold in 140 markets and in 2020, sales amounted to SEK 7.8 billion.
www.thulegroup.com