Memphis-Motor Carrier Manager

*Job Description** **Position Title** **:** Motor Carrier Manager **Pay Rate** : $75,000 – $100,000 _Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range. PL may vary by experience_ PL 10 **Category/Shift** : Salaried Full-Time **Physical Location** : Corporate Headquarters Memphis, TN **The Job You Will Perform:** Secure and maintain a stable, responsive, optimized and properly utilized truck/intermodal capacity solution for assigned production facilities and distribution points. These solutions achieve the lowest possible logistical cost to serve and respect the needs of our business units and their customers. This position creates and continuously improves an environment where our carrier supply base views International Paper as a partner of choice. This position has full responsibility for truck/intermodal transportation which includes sourcing, sourcing operations, carrier performance, and cost management. By utilizing the Global Sourcing Strategic Procurement process to facilitate all sourcing events, this position ensures that International Paper has competitive market pricing and superior service. Daily interactions occur with carriers, transportation specialists, business unit management, internal support resources, and facilities. Key Accountabilities: + Understanding complexity of business units in assigned area. + Analyze facility shipments to ensure sufficient capacity is maintained for the facility and modify using service/cost analysis to meet the facility’s shipping patterns. + Negotiate and contract the best overall value proposition (price / service / capacity), for transportation services, while following the Global Sourcing Strategic Sourcing process. + Seek out cost reduction opportunities through negotiations, enhanced cost controls, operational optimization, cost avoidance, and the pursuit of total cost of ownership savings. + Maintain Carrier partnership relationships. + Monitor and manage carrier activity to ensure consistency with carrier’s contractual commitments and take corrective action to resolve discrepancies. + Develop relationships with minority suppliers to meet annual minority business spend objective. + Maintain Carrier profile, contract documentation and rate systems. Key Challenges: + Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic business environment + Ability to navigate through multiple systems to understand business demands. + Maintaining knowledge of current market conditions and understanding the financial impact those conditions have to the facilities within assigned (Examples: fuel costs, empty miles, rate structures) + Understanding the competitive atmosphere of the transportation market and how to best manage it for the benefit of International Paper and our Carriers. + Work with functional group within the enterprise to find balanced solutions to complex problems + Large size and scope of operations and carrier partnership + Maintaining an acceptable level of carrier performance with focus continuously improving on-time performance + Knowledge of key internal contacts and organizations for timely problem resolution. Scope: + Manage outbound finished products and inbound recycled fiber transportation responsibilities for a combination of mills, RDC’s, box plants, and recycled facilities. + Primarily focused on Mills, DCs, and RDCs with the potential for others. + Responsible for $50 - $100MM in transportation spend + Management of locations and number of contracts varies depending on assigned facility and carrier responsibility. **The Skills You Will Bring:** + College degree or equivalent experience required + 3 years of transportation or supply chain experience + Demonstrated ability to work as a team member + Demonstrated record of achieving results as a self starter + Excellent communication skills written and verbal + Excellent computer skills – Microsoft Office Applications and SAP + Proven analytical skills + Experience with contract negotiation - desired + Experience in mill/plant operations – desired + Experience or understanding of dedicated/private fleet operations + Industry / Lean Certifications – desired Competencies: + Customer Focus + Drive For Results + Timely Decision Making + Learning on the fly + Informing + Business Acumen + Priority Setting + Detail Oriented + Problem Solving + Dealing with Ambiguity + Organizing + Composure + Negotiating **About Us** **The Benefits You Will Enjoy:** International Paper offers a benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-term and Long-term Disability, 401(k), Company-funded retirement contributions, Paid Time Off, Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement), Student Loan Repayment Assistance, and Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets **The Career You Will Build:** Leadership training, promotional opportunities **The Impact You Will Make:** We continue to build a better future for people, the planet, and our company! IP has been a good steward of sustainable practices across communities around the world for more than 125 years. Join our team and you’ll see why our team members say they’re Proud to be IP. **The Culture You Will Experience:** International Paper promotes employee well-being by providing safe, caring and inclusive workplaces. We have team members all around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. These are our strengths. We are committed to creating a culture where all individuals are respected, valued, engaged and have an opportunity to do their best work every day. We invite you to bring your uniqueness, creativity, talents, experiences, and safety mindset to be a part of our increasingly inclusive and diverse culture. **The Company You Will Join:** International Paper (NYSE: IP) is the global leader in sustainable packaging solutions. With company headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) headquarters in London, UK, we employ more than 65,000 team members and serve customers around the world with operations in more than 30 countries. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Net sales for 2024 were $18.6 billion. In 2025, International Paper acquired DS Smith creating an industry leader focused on the attractive and growing North American and EMEA regions. Additional information can be found by visiting . International Paper is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. International Paper complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact or (877) 973-3919. **Job Identification** 2001350 **Job Schedule** Full time

Created: 2026-02-20