Transportation Analytics Manager

About Us: 

Headquartered in Kennett Square, PA, with growing and processing operations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Canada, South Mill Champs is an innovative, customer-focused supplier of fresh, frozen and exotic mushrooms across North America. The company offers mushrooms and other fresh food products, full-service logistics, and cold storage, and is known for superior quality and consistent supply. Its network includes highly efficient cold chain distribution centers across the United States, including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Kennett Square, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Tampa, West Sacramento, and Winter Haven, Florida. 

Our mushroom farming story begins almost 90 years ago, in 1932, when Louie Pia began operating a small mushroom farm in southeastern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Today, South Mill Champs proudly supplies over 140 million pounds of fresh, frozen, and minimally processed mushrooms throughout North America. We continue to offer unparalleled service to regional retail, food service, wholesale, and processing customers providing high-quality mushrooms quickly and efficiently. 

Position Summary: 

The Transportation Analytics Manager develops, maintains, and improves the tools and processes that drive efficient movement of product from our Kennett Square, PA facility to distribution centers and customers. This role focuses on KPI development, routing software maintenance and improvement, and supporting analytics for the logistics group. The position reports directly to the Global Logistics Manager to design and implement transportation efficiency improvements, to improve our performance to customers and reduce freight costs. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree 
• 3+ years' experience in data analytics, ideally in a manufacturing / logistics setting 
• Effective communication, including writing, speaking and interpersonal communication 
• Quick critical thinking and problem-solving abilities

Job Description 

The Transportation Analytics Manager supports and enhances transportation planning through analytics, routing optimization, and KPI development. Specifically, responsibilities include: 

KPI Development & Performance Tracking 

• Designs, builds, maintains, and holds responsibility for dashboards to measure core logistics KPIs. 
• Ensures data accuracy, consistency, and availability for decision-making across the logistics team. 
• Continually updates baseline figures for relevant KPIs such as cost per mile, cost per pound of product, etc. with market trends and operational changes

Routing Software Maintenance & Improvement 

• Oversees daily operation maintenance, and improvement of the company's dynamic routing software in Python. 
• Works with the US Logistics Manager to refine routing logic, parameters, and constraints to balance cost and service. 
• Partners with dispatch and operations staff to validate routing outputs and ensure usability. 

Analytics & Decision Support 

• Provides ad hoc analysis on freight cost, route performance, and customer delivery trends as needed by the logistics group. 
• Conducts root cause analysis when KPIs are not met. 
• Presents data-driven recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement 

• Collaborates with the Global Logistics Manager to design and implement transportation efficiency projects. 
• Benchmarks routing and cost performance against industry standards and competitive practices. 
• Supports global logistics improvement initiatives with data and performance tracking. 

Preferred Skills 

• Strong knowledge and experience of web-based dispatch applications and platforms.      
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Microsoft Word, Outlook, internet-based search engines and mapping programs. 
• Experienced in Python, with working knowledge of routing algorithms and route optimization. 
• English communication (verbal and written). 
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, solid decision-making skills, detail oriented and strong organizational skills

This position is subject to MVR, References and other screenings pertinent to this position.