Transportation Manager - Operations

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity to bring your experience to a collaborative, international environment and help shape the future of our European transportation operations.

We are looking for an experienced Transportation Manager, Operations to lead and govern end-to-end European road and intermodal transportation activities. Based at Alcoa Shared Services Hungary in Székesfehérvár, this role is part of the Procurement and Transportation organization and covers logistics operations across multiple plants, ports, warehouses, and customer locations throughout Europe. 

About the Role

In this position, you will be responsible for ensuring safe, compliant, stable, and cost-effective transportation performance across Europe. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on operational leadership, managing transportation disruptions and escalations while also contributing to category strategies, sourcing activities, supplier governance, and the continuous optimization of transportation flows and cost drivers.

The role offers a high degree of autonomy and requires confident decision-making, strong stakeholder management, and accountability for both operational performance and financial outcomes. You will also support the development of transportation coordinators and planners and build effective partnerships with internal stakeholders, service providers, operating locations, and customers.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate European road and intermodal transportation operations.
• Support and develop transportation coordinators and planners.
• Ensure stable operations and manage transportation disruptions and escalations.
• Develop and execute transportation category strategies, sourcing activities, and tenders.
• Manage carrier relationships, negotiations, contracts, and supplier performance.
• Monitor transportation costs, KPIs, and SLAs and identify optimization opportunities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and logistics partners.
• Support global transportation projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Bring

• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in Transportation and Logistics.
• Strong operational and strategic transportation knowledge.
• Experience in sourcing, supplier management, negotiations, and strategy development.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills; Power BI knowledge is an advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Commercial mindset with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

What You Can Expect

This is a highly visible European role with the opportunity to influence transportation performance, supplier relationships, category strategy, and continuous improvement across Alcoa’s operations. You will work with colleagues and partners across multiple locations and functions while contributing to the safe, reliable, and cost-effective distribution of materials throughout Europe.

About Alcoa

Join us and become part of a global organization where your ideas, experience, and leadership can make a meaningful difference. Apply today and help us build more resilient, efficient, and sustainable transportation operations across Europe.

About the Location

Recognized as an industry pioneer, Alcoa is an international company with operations across six continents. Alcoa Shared Services Hungary Ltd. provides administrative solutions and business services to its locations and offices in Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Wherever you choose to join us, you'll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress.  Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.    

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!  

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.