Senior Outbound Transportation Manager (Remote)

Work Flexibility: Remote

What you will do:

Join a high-performing transportation and logistics team that is driving cost efficiency, operational excellence, and service reliability across Stryker’s U.S. distribution network. As Senior Outbound Transportation Manager (Remote), you will drive policy development, optimization efforts, and best practice sharing across several divisions of Stryker for shipping activity to our customers.

You will serve as the lead transportation representative from our Global Transportation and Trade (GTT) Center of Excellence to your assigned divisions. This role partners closely with Transportation Operations, Indirect Procurement, Finance, Commercial Leadership, Customer Service, and Logistics to ensure disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and alignment to Stryker’s service and cost objectives. The employee can work 100% virtually in the US without any set territory or proximity required. This role requires 20% travel to manufacturing and distribution sites within our network on a per project basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and execute continuous improvement projects that drive cost out of our outbound transportation activities

• Lead regular transportation reviews with internal stakeholders across functions within your assigned divisions

• Develop deep relationships and be a trusted thought partner for our commercial, finance, and operations organizations as applicable for your assigned divisions

• Monitor and analyze weekly and monthly cost reports, identifying variances, risks, and cost reduction opportunities

• Develop and own clear routing instruction for carrier, mode, and service selection and drive routing compliance

• Serve as escalation point for transportation issues, leading root cause analysis and corrective action plans while also creating pathways for fast self-serve resolution

• Review monthly spend versus budget and partner with Finance to communicate trends, risks, and savings opportunities

• Act as the primary liaison for all transportation topics across internal stakeholders, including Procurement, Commercial, Transportation, and Logistics

• Serve as the conduit between operations and indirect procurement to ensure that business requirements are well captured in transportation SOWs and SLAs

What you will need:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, transportation, business, operations, or related field

• 10 years of experience in transportation in a high-volume manufacturing or distribution environment

• Strong working knowledge and experience with cost drivers in parcel, LTL, and truckload segments of the transportation industry

• Excellent financial and analytical skills with the ability to interpret cost, utilization, and performance data

• Demonstrated ability to drive cost reduction through governance, optimization, and operational discipline

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and manage complex vendor relationships

• Strong working knowledge and experience with cost drivers in parcel, LTL, and truckload segments of the transportation industry

• Exercises sound judgment and balances risk and reward in dynamic and ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field

• Experience in a regulated, medical device, or healthcare distribution environment

• Experience with final mile premium couriers in healthcare

• Dedicated fleet experience

Travel Percentage: 20%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.