Europe & Asia Transportation Planning & Execution Manager
GE Aerospace · Prestwick
Job Description Summary
The Europe & Asia Transportation Planning & Execution Manager is responsible for translating global transportation strategy into executable regional transportation plans across Europe and Asia. This role develops routing plans, execution models, localized processes, and supplier-management routines that enable consistent, scalable transportation performance across sites, suppliers, carriers, and lanes. 1.A key priority for this role is to plan the week and monitor the day to deliver CTL and CTB weekly objectives. The successful candidate will leverage AI, analytics, digital tools, and process automation to improve transportation quality, strengthen execution discipline, accelerate continuous improvement, and deliver measurable cost and productivity benefits. These additions align with the draft’s stated focus on performance management, continuous improvement, and turning strategy into repeatable execution capability
This is not primarily a shipment-tracking or expediting role. It operates one level above individual shipment execution and is accountable for building the routing, processes, supplier routines, and operating mechanisms that enable reliable transportation performance at scale.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain transportation routing plans for Europe and Asia aligned with global transportation strategy, including mode selection, carrier assignments, gateway strategy, consolidation approach, cutoff requirements, transit-time expectations, contingency routing, and escalation requirements.
- Translate transportation strategy into executable lane, site, supplier, system, and process-level plans that can be consistently deployed across the region.
- Establish implementation plans for major transportation changes, including supplier readiness, site readiness, carrier onboarding, routing instructions, systems requirements, data requirements, communications, escalation paths, and performance monitoring.
- Translate global transportation standard work into practical regional processes while allowing appropriate localization for infrastructure, supplier capability, operating hours, regulatory requirements, and market conditions.
- Standardize successful processes across sites and suppliers and reduce unnecessary regional variation caused by legacy local practices.
- Serve as a primary regional interface with transportation suppliers across Europe and Asia, including freight forwarders, airlines, trucking providers, parcel/express carriers, and 4PL partners.
- Ensure suppliers understand and execute routing, service, data, escalation, and performance requirements; conduct operating reviews and drive corrective action when performance does not meet expectations.
- Lead implementation of transportation plans across GE Aerospace sites and suppliers throughout Europe and Asia, ensuring clarity on provider selection, shipment timing, routing, documentation, cutoffs, escalation procedures, data requirements, and compliance expectations.
- Support supplier launches, sourcing transitions, manufacturing transfers, new facilities, MRO expansions, distribution-network changes, and other major supply-chain initiatives.
- Lead the regional operating rhythm by planning the week and monitoring the day to deliver CTL and CTB weekly objectives, using daily visibility and exception management to identify gaps early and drive countermeasures.
- Monitor performance across transit time, routing compliance, carrier performance, lane reliability, premium freight, shipment exceptions, lead-time performance, supplier execution, data quality, capacity constraints, and recurring failure modes.
- Use AI, analytics, digital tools, and automation to improve decision making, transportation visibility, process discipline, data quality, continuous improvement, and cost performance.
- Identify and scale technology-enabled opportunities to reduce waste, improve quality, lower premium freight, and deliver measurable cost and productivity benefits.
- Drive structured problem solving and continuous improvement with sites, suppliers, carriers, and transportation partners.
- Partner closely with regional distribution capabilities, including Netherlands and Singapore spare-parts operations, to ensure integration into the global transportation network.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent experience
- Significant experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or related operations
- Demonstrated experience in international transportation planning and operational execution
- Experience working with carriers, freight forwarders, and/or 4PL providers
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution across lanes, suppliers, sites, systems, and processes, consistent with the draft’s ideal candidate profile
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI, analytics, and digital tools to improve execution, quality, continuous improvement, and cost performance
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of European and Asian air and road freight networks
- Experience managing transportation suppliers across complex regional networks
- Strong analytical and process-development capability
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, sites, and suppliers without direct authority
Flexible Working
GE Aerospace supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.
Total Reward
At GE Aerospace we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.
As a new joiner to GE Aerospace we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;
- Non-contributory Pension
- Life Assurance
- Group income protection
- Private medical cover
- Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell
Security Clearance
Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance: BPSS
Right to Work
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No