Director Product Ground Transportation

Director Product Ground Transportation

At Crane Worldwide Logistics, we are driven by innovation, customer excellence, and operational leadership. We offer the opportunity to lead and optimize a dynamic European ground transportation network — supporting some of the most critical and high-profile supply chains globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Leadership: Design, develop, and manage Crane's ground transportation product portfolio across Europe, including FTL, LTL, groupage, express, final mile, and white glove services.
• Collaboration with Local Branches: Work closely with existing countries and branches where Crane controls local ground transportation activities. Drive alignment between local operations and regional strategy to ensure consistency, efficiency, and best-in-class service delivery.
• Carrier Procurement and Rationalization: Lead ground transportation procurement strategy. Rationalize the number of hauliers in use across Europe to leverage Crane's total spend, improve service levels, and create scalable solutions. Build and maintain senior relationships with key regional and local carriers.
• Financial Management: Own ground transportation P&L performance. Optimize cost structures through procurement, operational efficiency, and network synergies.
• High-Value/Hi-Tech Expertise: Develop secure, specialized transport solutions for sensitive, high-value cargo and high-tech supply chains.
• Final Mile and White Glove Expansion: Build out final mile and premium service capabilities across Europe, ensuring high-touch, customer-centric delivery models.
• Operational Standards and Best Practices: Establish regional best practices in ground transportation operations, security, carrier management, and compliance. Drive standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across the network.
• Technology Integration: Partner with IT and digital teams to ensure ground transportation services are fully enabled with best-in-class technology (e.g., TMS, tracking/visibility tools).
• Customer Solutions: Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Design, and Key Account Management teams to deliver innovative, tailored transportation solutions to Crane clients.
• Leadership: Build and lead a network of ground transportation specialists to support operational excellence and commercial success across Europe.

Build and lead a network of ground transportation specialists to support operational excellence and commercial success across Europe.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum 10 years in transportation and logistics, with at least 5 years in senior leadership overseeing ground transportation products across Europe.
• Carrier Procurement Expertise: Proven experience leading procurement initiatives with significant carrier spend. Established relationships at a senior level with major European ground hauliers.
• Network Optimization Skills: Demonstrated ability to rationalize supplier bases and leverage spend across multi-country networks.
• Industry Expertise: Strong knowledge of high-tech, high-value, and sensitive supply chains is highly desirable. Experience in final mile and white glove service development is preferred.
• Skills: Strong commercial and financial management capabilities. Exceptional negotiation, leadership, and collaboration skills. High proficiency in transport management systems (TMS) and digital logistics platforms.
• Language: Fluent in English; proficiency in additional European languages (e.g., German, French, Dutch) is a plus.
• Travel: Ability to travel across Europe up to 30%-40%.

Physical Requirements

• Talking, hearing and using hands to operate computer equipment.
• Vision abilities required by this job including close vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Full clean Driver's License

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field (Master's preferred)
• 8 - 10 years of relevant experience.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.