ITS Logistics, LLC
Director of Network Optimization - Brokerage
ITS Logistics, LLC, Reno, Nevada, United States, 89550
Director of Network Optimization - Brokerage
About ITS Logistics
Are you ready to unleash your potential and be a part of one of the fastest growing, exciting, logistics companies in the US? ITS Logistics is a premier Third-Party Logistics company that provides creative supply chain solutions. With the highest level of service, unmatched industry experience and work ethic, and a laser focus on innovation and technology–our purpose is to improve the quality of life by delivering excellence in everything we do.
At ITS, we invest in your personal and professional growth, providing the tools, resources, and support you need to unleash your full potential, collaborate with like-minded teammates, and seize limitless opportunities. By joining our all-star team, you will be part of an organization that values your unique skills, encourages your drive for excellence, and recognizes your unwavering commitment to achieving our shared goals.
We empower our team members to become champions in their respective fields by nurturing a culture of collaboration, competition, and unyielding resilience. We believe that together, we can conquer any challenge and achieve remarkable victories.
The Director of Network Optimization will oversee the strategic management of the company's asset network, focusing on optimizing transportation efficiency, reducing empty miles, and improving overall asset utilization. This role requires previous experience in transportation, brokerage or logistics network optimization, with a focus on improving efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing assets in our network to maximize revenue and profitability. They will oversee the Asset Optimization team with the focus of ensuring the network runs efficiently and cost-effectively.
Responsibilities:
Asset Optimization: Lead the strategic optimization of the company’s trailer network, ensuring maximum efficiency in utilization, reducing empty miles, and improving overall performance.
Capacity & Load Planning: Work to create and optimize round-trip loads across multiple customers, lanes, and carriers, ensuring that all capacity is utilized efficiently and that empty move costs are minimized.
Cost Reduction Initiatives: Focus on identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs, particularly related to empty miles and inefficient moves, while maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction.
Collaboration with Internal Teams: Partner with internal stakeholders such as Operations, Production, and Sales to ensure network optimization strategies align with broader company goals, customer needs, and operational capacity.
Performance Analysis & Continuous Improvement: Use data-driven insights to evaluate network efficiency and implement continuous improvement processes. Develop and report on metrics that measure capacity, empty miles, and cost savings.
Strategy Implementation: Develop and implement optimization strategies to achieve both short-term and long-term goals for reducing empty miles, improving efficiency, and optimizing carrier performance.
Stakeholder Communication & Reporting: Communicate regularly with both internal and external stakeholders to report on network performance, optimization efforts, and cost-saving initiatives. Facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with internal teams and carriers to ensure mutual goals are met.
Process & Technology Improvement: Regularly assess and refine processes and systems for network optimization, leveraging technology and data tools to streamline operations and improve performance.
Requirements:
5–10 years of experience in transportation, specifically related to optimizing trailer networks and reducing operational inefficiencies.
Demonstrated success in reducing empty miles, optimizing round-trip loads, and building efficient networks for multiple customers and carriers.
Strong background in carrier management, brokerage operations, and transportation capacity optimization.
Proven track record in developing and executing cost-reduction strategies across large, complex network.
Successful history of building and managing a multi-million dollar budget.
Strong ability to lead others, build a strategic vision and execute.
Education:
A bachelor’s degree in business, logistics, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent experience or certifications may substitute for formal education.
Skills, Attributes & Ideal Candidate Profile:
Leadership & Drive: Strong leader with a proven ability to manage and optimize large, complex networks, while driving operational efficiency and cost savings.
Results-Oriented: Focused on achieving measurable outcomes, particularly in reducing empty miles, optimizing capacity, and driving cost reductions.
Carrier & Broker Relationship Management: Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with large carriers and brokers, understanding their needs and ensuring service levels are consistently met.
Analytical & Data-Driven: Highly analytical, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to use data and performance metrics to drive network optimization.
Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication abilities to effectively engage with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Organizational Skills: Detail-oriented and organized, able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Process Improvement: Proven ability to identify inefficiencies and implement continuous improvements, using a combination of technology, data analysis, and process optimization.
Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of the transportation and brokerage industries, including experience in reducing empty miles, optimizing capacity, and managing carrier networks. Leverage experience with large carriers or brokers, specifically in optimizing transportation networks and capacity, is highly preferred.
Technical Proficiency: Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, CRM systems, and any relevant transportation management or optimization software.
We thrive in a fun and exciting onsite experience located in Reno, NV! Interested in learning more? Read our blog post about the Reno/Tahoe area
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Are you ready to unleash your potential and be a part of one of the fastest growing, exciting, logistics companies in the US? ITS Logistics is a premier Third-Party Logistics company that provides creative supply chain solutions. With the highest level of service, unmatched industry experience and work ethic, and a laser focus on innovation and technology–our purpose is to improve the quality of life by delivering excellence in everything we do.
At ITS, we invest in your personal and professional growth, providing the tools, resources, and support you need to unleash your full potential, collaborate with like-minded teammates, and seize limitless opportunities. By joining our all-star team, you will be part of an organization that values your unique skills, encourages your drive for excellence, and recognizes your unwavering commitment to achieving our shared goals.
We empower our team members to become champions in their respective fields by nurturing a culture of collaboration, competition, and unyielding resilience. We believe that together, we can conquer any challenge and achieve remarkable victories.
The Director of Network Optimization will oversee the strategic management of the company's asset network, focusing on optimizing transportation efficiency, reducing empty miles, and improving overall asset utilization. This role requires previous experience in transportation, brokerage or logistics network optimization, with a focus on improving efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing assets in our network to maximize revenue and profitability. They will oversee the Asset Optimization team with the focus of ensuring the network runs efficiently and cost-effectively.
Responsibilities:
Asset Optimization: Lead the strategic optimization of the company’s trailer network, ensuring maximum efficiency in utilization, reducing empty miles, and improving overall performance.
Capacity & Load Planning: Work to create and optimize round-trip loads across multiple customers, lanes, and carriers, ensuring that all capacity is utilized efficiently and that empty move costs are minimized.
Cost Reduction Initiatives: Focus on identifying opportunities to reduce operational costs, particularly related to empty miles and inefficient moves, while maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction.
Collaboration with Internal Teams: Partner with internal stakeholders such as Operations, Production, and Sales to ensure network optimization strategies align with broader company goals, customer needs, and operational capacity.
Performance Analysis & Continuous Improvement: Use data-driven insights to evaluate network efficiency and implement continuous improvement processes. Develop and report on metrics that measure capacity, empty miles, and cost savings.
Strategy Implementation: Develop and implement optimization strategies to achieve both short-term and long-term goals for reducing empty miles, improving efficiency, and optimizing carrier performance.
Stakeholder Communication & Reporting: Communicate regularly with both internal and external stakeholders to report on network performance, optimization efforts, and cost-saving initiatives. Facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with internal teams and carriers to ensure mutual goals are met.
Process & Technology Improvement: Regularly assess and refine processes and systems for network optimization, leveraging technology and data tools to streamline operations and improve performance.
Requirements:
5–10 years of experience in transportation, specifically related to optimizing trailer networks and reducing operational inefficiencies.
Demonstrated success in reducing empty miles, optimizing round-trip loads, and building efficient networks for multiple customers and carriers.
Strong background in carrier management, brokerage operations, and transportation capacity optimization.
Proven track record in developing and executing cost-reduction strategies across large, complex network.
Successful history of building and managing a multi-million dollar budget.
Strong ability to lead others, build a strategic vision and execute.
Education:
A bachelor’s degree in business, logistics, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent experience or certifications may substitute for formal education.
Skills, Attributes & Ideal Candidate Profile:
Leadership & Drive: Strong leader with a proven ability to manage and optimize large, complex networks, while driving operational efficiency and cost savings.
Results-Oriented: Focused on achieving measurable outcomes, particularly in reducing empty miles, optimizing capacity, and driving cost reductions.
Carrier & Broker Relationship Management: Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with large carriers and brokers, understanding their needs and ensuring service levels are consistently met.
Analytical & Data-Driven: Highly analytical, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to use data and performance metrics to drive network optimization.
Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication abilities to effectively engage with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Organizational Skills: Detail-oriented and organized, able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Process Improvement: Proven ability to identify inefficiencies and implement continuous improvements, using a combination of technology, data analysis, and process optimization.
Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of the transportation and brokerage industries, including experience in reducing empty miles, optimizing capacity, and managing carrier networks. Leverage experience with large carriers or brokers, specifically in optimizing transportation networks and capacity, is highly preferred.
Technical Proficiency: Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, CRM systems, and any relevant transportation management or optimization software.
We thrive in a fun and exciting onsite experience located in Reno, NV! Interested in learning more? Read our blog post about the Reno/Tahoe area
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Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.
As set forth in ITS Logistics, LLC’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:
A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
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Celiac disease
Cerebral palsy
Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
Diabetes
Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
Intellectual or developmental disability
Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
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