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About the Role

The Manager – Transportation Intelligence & Optimization serves as the business owner for transportation analytics, decision intelligence, business intelligence, and optimization capabilities. This leader is accountable for transforming transportation data into actionable business decisions that improve service, reduce cost, increase asset utilization, optimize network performance, and maximize return on transportation technology investments. This role owns the transportation business intelligence strategy, enterprise transportation KPI framework, business reporting standards, analytical portfolio prioritization, optimization opportunity pipeline, and value realization for decision intelligence capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Transportation Decision Intelligence strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligning analytics, business intelligence, optimization, and AI capabilities with enterprise transportation priorities.
• Own the transportation analytics and optimization portfolio, prioritizing investments and resources based on strategic value, operational impact, and measurable business outcomes.
• Direct transportation business intelligence and executive reporting, including dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, metric definitions, and reporting standards to provide consistent, timely, and actionable insights.
• Identify and lead transportation optimization opportunities across network design, routing, mode and carrier selection, consolidation, asset utilization, cost-to-serve, and overall network performance.
• Establish business data and analytics governance, including transportation business rules, KPI definitions, reporting logic, master data requirements, and standards that support a reliable single source of truth.
• Champion advanced analytics and AI-enabled decision intelligence, evaluating and sponsoring capabilities that improve transportation decisions, operational performance, and financial results.
• Partner cross-functionally with Transportation Operations, Product Management, Enterprise Data & Analytics, Finance, Procurement, and other stakeholders to align priorities, improve data quality, validate business value, and drive adoption of analytical solutions.
• Lead and develop a high-performing Transportation Decision Intelligence team, establishing accountability for execution, continuous improvement, innovation, adoption, and realization of business outcomes while providing executive-level insights and recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (Master's preferred)
• 10+ years Transportation or Supply Chain experience
• 5+ years of leadership experience either managing a team of direct reports or indirectly leading cross-functional groups.
• Demonstrated experience leading business intelligence, transportation analytics, or optimization functions
• Experience with Oracle Transportation Management
• Experience with Power BI
• Experience with Transportation Analytics
• Experience with Supply Chain Optimization
• Experience with Network Modeling
• Experience with Future development of AI-enabled Decision Support
• Experience with KPI Governance and Business Intelligence Strategy
• Must be a Citizen or National of the United States, a lawful, permanent resident, or have authorization to work in the United States.
• Applicants must not now, or in the future, require sponsorship for an employment visa.

Location

• Remote home office with access to a major airport.

Work Type

• Remote
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Manager
• 10+ years
• 5+ years leadership

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree

Salary/Compensations

• $107,500 - $150,500 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Discretionary annual merit increases
• Bonuses and profit sharing
• 401(k) with employer match
• Stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Free two-year community/technical college tuition for children of employees

About the Company

• Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue.
• Brands include PLANTERS®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, HORMEL® NATURAL CHOICE®, APPLEGATE®, WHOLLY®, HORMEL® BLACK LABEL®, COLUMBUS®, JENNIE-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands.
• The Company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.
• Named one of the best companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report.
• Named one of America’s most responsible companies by Newsweek.
• Recognized by TIME magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies.
• Received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts.

Equal Opportunity

• Hormel Foods provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.