Regional Fleet Manager

Position Summary
This position will assist leading RSC Traffic Departments through the organization's growth and financial objectives, ensuring a seamless world-class outbound delivery experience across Ace and Emery Jensen retailers. The role is responsible for driving a culture of safety, service, financial, and operational excellence.

This position will either work out of our corporate Oak Brook, IL office or out of one of our 15 Retail Support Centers.

This position will lead, coach, orchestrate, mentor, and support the Logistics Managers ensuring adherence and accountability to the departmental goals. Through teamwork, collaboration, and cross-functional support, this role will foster close relationships with local Less-than-Truckload (LTL), Common & Final Mile carriers as well as Outbound Warehouse Mgmt Team. The RFM role will actively participate in the monthly performance and annual budget reviews, connecting financial KPIs and operational results, outputting actionable recommendations that addresses negative trends.

The Regional Fleet Manager will collaborate across all areas including but not limited to: Corporate Inbound Traffic, Supply Chain, Retail Operations, IT, Outside Service Providers, Care Center, and the RSC Logistic Managers & Traffic Teams. At the direction of the Corporate Fleet Safety & Compliance Manager during onsite visits, this role will conduct safety & compliance Audits.

The RFM will have influence for their region on network design, process improvement, delivery mode selection, on time delivery, fleet & equipment needs, route review, budget and financial support, driver pay, dock to driver, training programs, recruitment & retention and assist in developing the go-forward plan to help support a seamless delivery experience for our Ace & EJD Retailers.

This role will support, develop, execute, and ensure adherence to the standard operating procedures across all RSC's Traffic Departments. Including review of each job/title within the local Traffic Departments that creates and supports a progressive succession plan for each role.

Ultimately, the RFM will ensure corporate transportation strategy adherence, provide operational support and feedback for all aspects of delivering to our Ace & EJD Retailers safely and on time.

Knowledge, Experience, And Competencies

• Display the Ace Values (WELIGHT)
• Bachelor's degree in logistics/transportation, engineering, business administration, or related field experience
• 7+ years working experience in the transportation/logistics operations environment with Fleet Management Experience preferred
• Supply Chain Operations Experience
• Distribution Operations Experience
• Inventory Control Experience
• Excellent data mining and analysis skills
• Good organizational skills with attention to detail
• Ability to manage a high-volume workload
• Strong engagement and partnership skills with the ability to both understand and deliver established results
• Must be a team player with good collaboration skills
• Exceptional verbal and written
• Ability to travel up to 45%

Compensation Details
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Why should you join our team?
We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

Benefits
In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits* that address life's necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for fully eligible employees have averaged 10.4% of total eligible compensation.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision and disability – up to 26 weeks short-term disability and long-term disability) & life insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 21 days of vacation immediately available (prorated in the first year) and up to 6 paid holidays depending on the month of hire
• Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It's a chance to be part of something meaningful. We help locally-owned businesses thrive and make an impact in their communities – and we support our employees in doing the same by offering an annual Ace Cares Week, 20 hours off work per year to volunteer at an organization of your choice, opportunities to help Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and the Ace Helpful Fund through the Ace Foundation
• Ace invests in every employee we hire, with a key focus on development and coaching. We offer on-site classes, facilitator-led courses, and a generous tuition assistance program, plus a performance management approach that goes beyond the typical annual review
• We know the work environment matters. That's why Ace holds frequent campus events like Employee Appreciation Week, vendor demos, cookouts, and merchandise sales
• We bring them to you Services such as mobile spas, auto maintenance, car wash and detailing, dry cleaning, dentists, eye doctors, flu shots, recycling and more
• Employee discounts on Ace merchandise (including top brands like Weber, Traeger, Yeti, Craftsman, DeWalt and more), travel, fitness, computers and thousands more
• Birth/Adoption bonding paid time off
• Adoption cost reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to free visits to therapists and lawyers, guidance on financial matters, elder and childcare, and assistance with tickets to entertainment events
• Identity theft protection
• Benefits are provided in compliance with applicable plans and policies.

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