**Our values start with our people, join a team that values you\!** Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off\-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth\. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high\-quality brands and on\-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings\. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience\. As part of our team, you will experience: + **Success\.** Our winning team pursues excellence while learning and evolving + **Career growth\.** We develop industry leading talent because Ross grows when our people grow + **Teamwork\.** We work together to solve the hard problems and find the right solution + **Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community\.** We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger\. We strive to be a positive force in our community\. Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide\. With 2023 revenues of $20\.4 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams\. **GENERAL PURPOSE:** This position is responsible for managing all transportation procurement activities associated with Ross's Cross\-Dock and Store Delivery Network\. **Responsibilities include:** Procurement: development, planning and execution of analytical and bid processes, negotiations, recommendations, and a logical selection process to support cost controls, required service levels and forecasted company growth\. Administration and Risk Avoidance: contract management, security compliance, inventory control, risk management, internal controls and business continuity\. Responsible for collaborative budget planning to develop and implement an executable and cost\-effective budget based on capacity and service goals outlined by the company\. Strategy: develop short\- and long\-term capacity and cost control strategies and analysis to meet service levels and corporate growth plans, and business continuity needs\. Vendor Relations: responsible to foster professional and ethical business relationships driven by fair, logical and objective activities for all providers and transportation vendors Control: responsible to develop, implement and execute internal controls, policies and procedures to ensure integrity and transparency associated with all domestic transportation modes and activities\. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:** • Development of and execution of activities, to support inventory freight movement within the supply chain\. • Responsible for the development, procurement and sustainability of service provider network to meet and exceed the requirements of Ross Stores, Inc consistent with supply\-chain strategy\. Provider network must support cost controls, performance metrics, company growth and business continuity\. • Responsible to foster professional business relationships with Ross business partners, ensuring relationships with vendors and suppliers are based on price, quality, security, service, sustainability and reputation, carefully guarding the professional integrity of Ross\. • Develop and direct strategic initiatives to support expense targets, required performance standards and future growth opportunities\. • Develop executable Business Continuity strategy to minimize interruptions with inventory flow\. **Lead and execute comprehensive and objective bid processes and sourcing initiatives:** • Ensure current, accurate and complete information is provided to business partners to support logical and fair business practices • Responsible for the quantitative and qualitative bid evaluation process, considering cost controls, ability to meet service levels and performance metrics, ability to support growth, and ability to sustain long term\. • Drive negotiations and benchmarking to support competitive costs\. • Facilitate the award scenarios and recommendations, executive evaluations, consideration and decision making\. • Responsible for the annual assessment of all providers that support domestic freight movements within the supply chain\. **Ensure adequate controls:** • Review and assess contracts for consistency, and to ensure required content as directed by the Ross Store delivery strategy\. • Collaborate with internal and external legal counsel, Loss Prevention and risk management resources to ensure compliance with Ross overarching sourcing strategy\. • Ensure controls are in place and validated to support contractual, insurance and risk management compliance with current legal regulations and Ross/dd's DISCOUNTS\. • Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure Ross meets standards established internally and all governmental regulatory requirements to control risk\. • Ensure controls are in place to accurately validate and confirm invoice payments\. • Maintain compliance with Ross' Code of Conduct and Business Ethics, specifically maintaining an objective assessment of vendors and supplier's services\. • Ensure confidentiality of all Ross sensitive information\. **Cross functional support of all transportation sourcing positions:** • Align cross\-functionally on strategic planning initiatives and process improvement efforts • Perform all projects requested by the Director Transportation Procurement **COMPETENCIES:** • Analysis and Judgement • Leadership • Organizational Understanding • Communication • Attention to Detail • Delivering Results **QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL SKILLS REQUIRED:** • Minimum of 5 years transportation sourcing or related experience • Minimum of 2 years management level experience • Bachelor's degree • Knowledge of transportation regulatory requirements • Strong analytical skills required • Data driven approach to problem solving • Broad logistics expertise • Broad working knowledge of transportation, contracts, contractual language, claims and insurance requirements • Must possess excellent written and oral communications skills and be able to communicate with all levels and departments both within and outside of the company • Strategic thinking: ability to identify long\-term issues and develop mitigation solutions • Experience with hands on utilization of current supply chain software applications and systems • Project management skills are a plus • Skillful negotiator **PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/ADA:** Job requires ability to work in an office environment, primarily on a computer\. Requires sitting, standing, walking, hearing, talking on the telephone, attending in\-person meetings, typing, and working with paper/files, etc\. Consistent timeliness and regular attendance\. Vision requirements: Ability to see information in print and/or electronically\. Routine deadlines; usually sufficient lead time; variance in work volume seasonal and predictable; priorities can be anticipated; some interruptions are present; travel or other inconveniences have advance notice; involves occasional exposure to demands and pressures from persons other than immediate supervisor\. Travel required \- up to 25% This role requires regular in\-office presence, including to engage in in\-person team interaction, meetings and collaboration, client support, mentoring, coaching, and/or feedback\. However, this role can perform duties effectively using a combination of in\-office and remote work\.\#LI\-Hybrid **SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:** 1\-5 Exempt associates\. **DISCLAIMER** This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position\. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all\-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities\. Contents are subject to change at management's discretion\. Ross is an equal employment opportunity employer\. We consider individuals for employment or promotion according to their skills, abilities and experience\. We believe that it is an essential part of the Company's overall commitment to attract, hire and develop a strong, talented and diverse workforce\. Ross is committed to complying with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, physical, mental or developmental disability, sex \(which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding\), veteran status, military status, marital or registered domestic partnership status, medical condition \(including cancer or genetic characteristics\), genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, as well as any other category protected by federal, state or local laws\.