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GXO Logistics

Contract logistics with warehousing and automation

Transportation Manager - 1st Shift

Logistics & TransportationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKansas City, MO, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of transportation experience.
  • In-depth knowledge of the supply chain and logistics industry.
  • Availability to travel occasionally.
  • Ability to lift objects of various shapes, sizes, and weights up to 25 pounds.
  • Ability to stand, sit, or walk for extended periods.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a customer account on site, ensuring compliance requirements and contractual obligations are met.
  • Serve as the primary customer contact for new initiatives and high-level critical issues.
  • Maintain responsibility for overall profit and loss to meet established budgets and forecasts.
  • Ensure effective operations communication, interaction, and relationships with company drivers.
  • Oversee tractor maintenance, compliance, and service delivery.
  • Track operational performance, including on-time pickup and delivery, volume, equipment balance, and empty miles.
  • Ensure driver recruiting and retention meet established fleet size goals.
  • Identify opportunities to increase performance, improve processes, and find efficiencies, and coordinate with leaders to implement solutions.
  • Investigate the root cause of service failures and implement corrective actions when necessary.
  • Develop and modify operational policies and procedures to meet customer service requirements for new and existing processes.
  • Maintain a safe work environment and foster a positive team dynamic, resolving employee relations issues and administering corrective action as required.
  • Ensure annual profit, efficiency, and quality goals are attained at each client engagement.
  • Direct capital expenditure and asset deployment activities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Project management skills and experience.
  • Proven leadership and collaboration skills, including experience supervising, mentoring, and influencing employees.
  • Verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience as a collaborative, innovative, and strategic thinker.
  • Customer relationship management skills.

About the Company

GXO Logistics

Contract logistics with warehousing and automation

GXO Logistics provides contract logistics services across warehousing, order fulfillment, reverse logistics, and transportation management. It serves e-commerce, retail, consumer packaged goods and industrial manufacturing clients with tailored, technology-driven supply chain solutions. The company operates through long-term contracts, typically on a cost-plus or fixed-fee basis, leveraging scale, automation, and data analytics to improve efficiency and cut costs for customers. A notable differentiator is GXO ServiceTech, which handles product returns and reverse logistics for retailers, manufacturers, and insurers, especially in consumer electronics. GXO’s goal is to reduce customers’ logistics costs and complexity by delivering end-to-end, tech-enabled logistics services at scale through long-term partnerships.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Greenwich, CT
Founded
2021

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