Logistics Portfolio Manager

Job Description SummaryThe Logistics Portfolio Manager is responsible for leading transportation strategy, sourcing, governance, resource planning, and logistics execution across an assigned portfolio of domestic and international projects.
This role supports the ITO Project Logistics Leads in developing logistics concepts, budgetary freight estimates, transportation schedules, sourcing strategies, risk assessments, and tender assumptions. The Logistics Portfolio Manager reviews and challenges proposed logistics solutions to help ensure they are commercially competitive, operationally feasible, and aligned with project execution requirements.
Following project award, the Logistics Portfolio Manager ensures the effective transition of logistics strategies, budgets, schedules, assumptions, risks, and contractual commitments from Inquiry-to-Order (ITO) to Order-to-Remittance (OTR). The role maintains portfolio-level oversight of logistics execution, project priorities, supplier performance, transportation capacity, cost, schedule, risk, and resource requirements through final delivery.
The Logistics Portfolio Manager directly leads and develops the Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators assigned to the portfolio. These positions report directly to the Logistics Portfolio Manager. People-leadership responsibilities include resource planning, workload balancing, coaching, performance management, capability development, talent planning, and succession planning.
The Logistics Portfolio Manager develops portfolio-wide transportation sourcing strategies by consolidating shipment demand across multiple projects to optimize capacity, leverage buying power, improve cost competitiveness, and strengthen the carrier network. The role oversees transportation procurement activities, including RFQ development, carrier bid analysis, commercial evaluation, supplier capability and risk assessment, negotiations, Statements of Work, purchase orders, and contract performance.
The position partners closely with Commercial, Project Management, Engineering, Sourcing, Procurement, Manufacturing, Customs and Trade Compliance, Finance, Site Operations, Corporate Logistics, and other key stakeholders to align logistics activities with customer commitments and business objectives.
Periodic domestic and international travel is required to support supplier assessments, logistics feasibility reviews, transportation planning, execution-readiness evaluations, and visits to fabrication facilities, ports, warehouses, rail facilities, and project jobsites.

Job Description Essential Functions and Responsibilities

1. Portfolio Leadership and People Management

• Directly lead and develop the Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators assigned to the portfolio.
• Manage employee performance, development, workload, priorities, and resource allocation across the assigned logistics organization.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, development planning, and succession planning for direct-report logistics personnel.
• Assign logistics resources based on project complexity, risk, schedule, workload, customer requirements, and required technical expertise.
• Establish portfolio priorities and ensure adequate logistics support is available throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor team capacity and proactively address resource constraints, capability gaps, and competing project priorities.
• Establish operating rhythms, governance reviews, escalation protocols, and performance expectations across the portfolio.
• Provide leadership visibility into project status, logistics performance, emerging risks, supplier capacity, resource constraints, and required business decisions.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, customer focus, knowledge sharing, safety, and continuous improvement.

2. ITO Logistics Support and Governance

• Support ITO Project Logistics Leads in developing logistics concepts, budgetary freight estimates, transportation schedules, sourcing strategies, execution assumptions, and risk assessments for tender opportunities.
• Review and challenge proposed logistics plans, estimates, schedules, and assumptions to help ensure solutions are commercially competitive, operationally feasible, and executable.
• Provide portfolio-level transportation market intelligence, carrier capacity information, historical cost data, lessons learned, and execution feedback to support ITO planning.
• Support the establishment of logistics estimating methodologies, transportation planning standards, governance requirements, and approval processes for tender activities.
• Ensure logistics assumptions appropriately address transportation modes, routing, route surveys, permits, escorts, port and rail requirements, site access, unloading, storage, customs, Incoterms, and other project-specific risks.
• Partner with the ITO Project Logistics Leads and Commercial teams to align proposed logistics solutions with customer requirements, project schedules, contractual obligations, and business objectives.
• Support the review of complex, high-value, oversized, or high-risk transportation strategies before tender submission.
• Ensure lessons learned from OTR execution are communicated to the ITO Project Logistics Leads and incorporated into future estimating and planning activities.

3. ITO-to-OTR Transition and Execution Readiness

• Ensure logistics strategies, budgets, schedules, assumptions, risks, and contractual commitments are clearly documented and transferred from ITO to the assigned Project Logistics Manager following project award.
• Lead or participate in formal logistics handover reviews between the ITO Project Logistics Leads and the OTR logistics organization.
• Partner with Project Execution teams to validate final shipment scope, equipment dimensions and weights, transportation requirements, delivery schedules, site constraints, and logistics execution requirements.
• Confirm that differences between tender assumptions and final project requirements are identified, evaluated, documented, and escalated as necessary.
• Ensure project-specific logistics plans, sourcing strategies, budgets, schedules, milestones, risk registers, and execution requirements are established following project award.
• Coordinate with Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators to ensure successful transportation sourcing, award, mobilization, and execution readiness.
• Conduct or support logistics feasibility reviews, transportation assessments, supplier-readiness reviews, and operational evaluations.
• Ensure transportation providers meet contractual, safety, quality, insurance, regulatory, and operational requirements before award and execution.

4. OTR Logistics Execution and Portfolio Governance

• Maintain portfolio-level oversight of logistics execution from project award through final delivery.
• Ensure Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators perform their assigned responsibilities in accordance with established processes, governance requirements, project commitments, and performance expectations.
• Review and approve logistics execution strategies for complex, high-value, oversized, or high-risk projects in accordance with established authorization levels.
• Monitor portfolio-level logistics cost, schedule, risk, supplier performance, and execution readiness.
• Ensure project teams maintain accurate logistics plans, shipment trackers, budgets, forecasts, milestones, risk registers, and performance reports.
• Monitor critical logistics milestones and intervene when transportation, supplier, capacity, commercial, customs, site-readiness, or schedule risks threaten project commitments.
• Lead or support the resolution of complex transportation, supplier, capacity, commercial, contractual, and project escalations.
• Establish corrective-action plans and ensure timely resolution of issues affecting cost, schedule, service, safety, quality, or customer satisfaction.
• Ensure appropriate communication and coordination among logistics personnel, project teams, suppliers, carriers, manufacturing facilities, and jobsites.

5. Transportation Procurement and Carrier Management

• Consolidate transportation demand across multiple projects to develop portfolio sourcing strategies that optimize capacity, leverage buying power, and improve cost competitiveness.
• Oversee the development and issuance of RFQs to carriers, freight forwarders, heavy-haul providers, and other logistics service providers supporting domestic and international requirements.
• Review carrier bid analyses, commercial evaluations, cost comparisons, capability assessments, and supplier risk profiles.
• Develop or approve transportation award recommendations in accordance with established authorization levels and governance requirements.
• Lead negotiations of transportation rates, capacity commitments, service requirements, and commercial terms with carriers and logistics providers.
• Oversee the development of Statements of Work, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and transportation contracts in partnership with Sourcing, Procurement, Legal, and Project teams.
• Ensure suppliers comply with contractual, insurance, safety, quality, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Establish clear performance expectations and service requirements for carriers, freight forwarders . click apply for full job details