Senior Director

Job Description

Maximize Your Impact with TP

Welcome to TP, a global hub of innovation and empowerment, where we redefine the future. With a remarkable 10 billion annual revenue and a global team of 500,000 employees serving 170 countries in over 300 languages, we lead in intelligent, digital-first solutions.

As a globally certified Great Place to Work in 72 countries, our culture thrives on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We value your unique perspective and believe that your talent is the missing piece that completes our vision for a brighter, digitally driven tomorrow.

The Opportunity

We seek an experienced and dynamic leader to oversee West & South Region Employee Transport Services. This role demands strategic oversight of transport operations, vendor partnerships, compliance, safety, and cost optimization.

The ideal candidate should be energetic, forward-thinking, stakeholder-centric, who needs to drive innovation, ensure service excellence, and uphold our commitment to employee well-being. This role requires highly experienced individual who can manage large-scale of transportation network, build strong relation with external partners, and lead the team towards enhancing efficiency, cost-effectiveness and employee satisfaction.

The Responsibilities

- Develop, Integrate and execute transport strategies aligned with organizational goals.
- Analyze regional needs and design scalable solutions.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and regulatory changes.
- Manage daily operations, ensuring adherence to schedules, safety, and service quality.
- Monitor KPIs (on-time performance, vehicle utilization, employee satisfaction).
- Resolve escalations promptly and implement preventive measures.
- Monitor contracts, SLAs, and pricing with transport vendors.
- Conduct regular audits and performance reviews.
- Collaborate with Business, Security, HR, Facilities Management, and regional teams on many of the initiatives relating to Transport operations.
- Management of Senior Stakeholder Relationships such as Country Management, Senior TP Leadership, Human Resources.
- Ensure adherence to transport, labour, and environmental regulations.
- Lead safety initiatives, including driver training and incident investigations.
- Assessment & Management of BCP Requirements in conjunction with crisis management team
- Risk & Controls Management
- Manage budgets, identify cost-optimization opportunities
- Leverage technology for route optimization, real-time tracking, and analytics.
- Lead and mentor team members, fostering a culture of accountability and safety. This would include managing and influencing team members, who may not directly report into this role.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm&aposs reputation and safeguarding TP, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

The Qualifications

- Strong skills in accounting, finance, project management and strategic planning
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.
- Demonstrate influencing skills, with multiple stakeholders and teams
- Exceptional relationship building skills and experience in partnering with senior managers to accomplish organizational goals.
- Analytical and time management skills with the ability to work under time constraints and adapt to change
- Strong financial acumen and negotiation skills.
- Organized, motivated, pro-active, with perseverance, able to articulate and action against the plan
- Work independently with the ability to deliver against targets
- Prior experience in leading teams
- Experience in fleet and vendor management, project management and strategic planning
- Operational Management & Control
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk & Controls Acumen
- Experience in leading tools in the industry.
- Bachelors degree
- Experience: 16+ years in transport/logistics, with 5+ years in leadership roles
- Proven track record in managing large-scale transportation and logistics management.
- Strong understanding of technologies such as transport management systems.

Pre-Employment Screenings

By TP policy, employment in this position will be contingent on your successful completion and passage of a comprehensive background check, including global sanctions and watch list screening.

Important | Policy on Unsolicited Third-Party Candidate Submissions

TP does not accept candidate submissions from unsolicited third parties, including recruiters or headhunters. Applications will not be considered, and no contractual association will be established through such submissions.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At TP, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and lifestyles and do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or other differences.

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