Job Description
Vice President of Transportation - Food Manufacturing and Distribution - Base Salary to 210k/year - Harrisburg, PA
- Our client is a growing food manufacturing, agriculture, and distribution organization specializing in the cultivation, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution of fresh produce products. They are seeking a Vice President of Transportation to provide strategic leadership for transportation, fleet operations, freight brokerage, carrier management, and logistics network optimization across multiple business units.
- This leadership role is responsible for overseeing both asset-based transportation operations and third-party logistics networks while driving operational excellence, transportation efficiency, cost control, customer satisfaction, and organizational growth.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for transportation operations, freight brokerage, carrier management, logistics network optimization, and distribution activities across the organization.
- Oversee both asset-based transportation fleets and non-asset-based logistics operations, ensuring efficient utilization of transportation resources and optimal service levels.
- Direct third-party logistics providers, freight brokerage activities, carrier procurement efforts, and capacity planning initiatives to support customer requirements and operational objectives.
- Establish, monitor, and continuously improve key performance indicators related to transportation costs, fleet utilization, on-time delivery performance, carrier effectiveness, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve freight spend, transportation efficiency, asset utilization, routing strategies, and overall supply chain performance.
- Lead contract negotiations and maintain strategic relationships with carriers, vendors, transportation partners, and key service providers.
- Develop transportation strategies that support organizational growth while maintaining service quality and operational scalability.
- Manage departmental budgets, capital expenditures, forecasting activities, and transportation-related profit and loss responsibilities.
- Lead, mentor, and develop logistics, dispatch, transportation, and driver teams while fostering a performance-driven and safety-focused culture.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to transportation management, logistics operations, fleet performance, and supply chain best practices.
- Ensure compliance with applicable transportation regulations, company policies, and workplace safety standards.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in a senior-level logistics, transportation, or supply chain leadership role within the Food and Beverage, Produce, Agriculture, or related industries.
- Experience leading both asset-based transportation operations and third-party logistics networks.
- Robust background managing large-scale transportation, fleet operations, freight brokerage, carrier management, logistics networks, and distribution operations.
- Strong understanding of transportation operations, fleet management, freight brokerage, carrier procurement, logistics planning, and supply chain best practices.
- Experience managing budgets, capital expenditures, forecasting processes, and profit and loss responsibilities.
- Demonstrated track record of driving operational excellence, process improvement, transportation efficiency, and cost reduction initiatives.
- Experience leading, developing, and mentoring teams consisting of drivers, dispatchers, logistics personnel, and transportation support staff.
- Hands-on, results-driven leadership style with the ability to support growth initiatives across multiple business units.
Compensation:
- Base salary in the 160k - 210k/year range.
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401k, and paid time off.
- Relocation assistance available for candidates relocating to the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Harrisburg, PA |
| Industry | Business Services - Other |
| Salary | $160,000–$210,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | https://www.allsearchinc.com |
About Company
AllSearch is one of the leading providers of industrial sales recruiting, manufacturing recruiting, HVAC recruiting, and construction / building product recruitment in the United States today. In complement to our largest practices, we also run long-standing, thriving niche recruitment practices specializing in the areas of both Insurance, and Engineering. Each practice is run by an industry veteran who spent a more than a decade working hands–on within the industry their recruiting practice represents. Talk about inside knowledge! Whether you’re a client looking for premier talent, or a candidate looking for a rewarding career opportunity, we can help you reach your goals. #StepYourJobUp
Skills
- Agricultureunmatched
- Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
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- Brokerageunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Business Strategyunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)unmatched
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- Customer Satisfactionunmatched
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- Distribution Operationsunmatched
- Distribution Servicesunmatched
- Fleet Managementunmatched
- Food Productionunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Operations Managementunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Procurement Planningunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Profit & Loss Forecastingunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Reimbursementunmatched
- Resource Utilizationunmatched
- Safety Standardsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Third-Party Logistics (3PL)unmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Transportation Regulationsunmatched
- Transportation and Logisticsunmatched
- Vehicle Fleetsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
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