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Ryder System, Inc.

Manager Solutions Design - Supply Chain

Ryder System, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, us, 02912

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Key Activities Include

Manage a subset of project team members or act as an independent contributor specializing in select design discipline or industry solutions.

Mentor and advise a subset of SD team members on modeling and design techniques to create, re-design, or optimize logistics networks.

Act as a specific solution design specialist, usually more than one discipline.

Effectively communicate the design and solution to internal stakeholders and the client.

Use advanced analytical techniques and concepts to understand the business.

Essential Functions

Project Management – leading cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment of solution development with win strategy.

Maintain effective communication across all team members as the solution develops.

Meet frequently with customers and cross‑functional bid response team; support technical review presentations and design validation meetings.

Calculate labor, equipment, facility, and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions; develop process flows, concept of operations, and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and work with IT to develop concept of systems.

Develop Proposal – clearly articulate value propositions, Ryder’s differentiated value, and proposed solution.

Collaborate with Sales leader to develop win strategy (research industry and customer to understand pain points and Ryder solutions to alleviate, understand competitive landscape to position Ryder to win, stakeholder analysis).

Data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development & defining scenarios to model.

Develop optimization scenarios and strategies that are aligned with objectives.

Develop and improve engineering tools and methodologies to ensure industry best practices.

Utilize a consultative approach to projects that involves understanding customers’ pain‑points, developing, and presenting solutions.

Implementation follow‑up, which requires engineer to validate and modify deployed process to ensure that it matches plan.

Skills And Abilities

Superb data organization and cleansing skills.

Exhibit advanced skills and concepts using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks.

Familiarity in simulation tools, transportation & warehouse management systems, ERPs, Automation, MHE, Visibility Tools, and industry leading technologies (preferred).

Ability to influence the project teams by using facts, statistics, and analytics.

Comprehend complex supply chain and transportation solutions and segment design processes into manageable elements and process steps.

Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex designs, concepts, and regulations into terms readily understood.

Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors).

Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint expert required.

Proficiency using AutoCAD to develop facility layouts that reflect the solution being proposed.

Warehouse Design – extensive knowledge of Warehouse Management operations, data analytics, Industrial Engineering, warehouse types and automation solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or Industrial Engineering.

Eight (8) years or more in the Warehousing and/or Manufacturing industry (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Warehouse Operations, Operations) required.

Travel 15% – 20% (Estimated). This position is Remote with some travel.

Job Category Solutions Design

Compensation Information Salaried

Minimum Pay Range 125,000

Maximum Pay Range 140,000

Benefits Information Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits, to include medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance and disability insurance options, as well as paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave, and a tax‑advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer Ryder is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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