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Senior Manager Transportation Purchases

Procter & Gamble

Cincinnati, OHFull-time$126–157K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$126–157K/yr
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

This Senior Manager role in P&G’s Purchasing Market Operations job family sources transportation across ship sites in the US and Canada. The candidate owns relationships with dozens of carriers and drives capacity, service, and structural cost. The role contributes to purchasing strategy and new procedures or services, works under limited supervision, and may supervise entry-level professionals.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

LeadershipRelationship ManagementAnalyticsData ManipulationNegotiationAgilityCoachingAdvising

Qualifications

Significant Negotiation Experience

Full job description

CINCINNATI GENERAL OFFICES

Full time

R000159039

Job Location

CINCINNATI GENERAL OFFICES

Job Description

This role in the Purchasing Market Operations job family is responsible for executing purchasing strategies within the market operations team. The role requires a keen understanding of the market dynamics and the ability to contribute to the development of new procedures and services.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing Transportation across multiple ship sites in the US and Canada. Externally-facing, the candidate will be the relationship owner for dozens of carriers, driving Capacity, Service and Structural Cost. The opportunities for exposure both internally and externally are significant.

  • Contribute to and execute strategies in team/organization.

  • Identify and lead developments of new ideas, techniques, procedures, services, or products.

  • Focus on one or more brands, channels, lines, categories or team/organization with clearly defined objectives.

  • Work under limited supervision and determine own priorities.

  • Accomplish tasks as an individual contributor or supervise entry level professionals.

Job Qualifications

  • Leadership. Purchasing leads the strategy development across all aspects of Market Operations

  • Relationship Management. Externally, the successful candidate will own dozens of carrier relationships. Although a commodity, it is a highly relational industry and superior relationship management skills are critical. Internally, it is critical to develop and leverage close relationships with Transportation Operations, Categories SNO leaders, Customer team leaders and ship sites.

  • Analytics. The successful candidate must be comfortable with large data sets. We have lots of data and it is critical that the candidate can efficiently manipulate the data, secure key insights and take action.

  • Agility. The Transportation industry is highly dynamic. P&G’s transportation network is also dynamic. The successful candidate must not only be comfortable with change, she/he must thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

  • Negotiation. The successful candidate must have significant experience in negotiating value.

  • Ability to work under limited supervision and determine own priorities.

  • Experience in developing knowledge and skills necessary for current job requirements.

  • Ability to coach and advise team members on compliance with stewardship requirements.

Compensation for roles at P&G varies depending on a wide array of non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, degree/credentials, relevant skill set, and level of relevant experience. At P&G compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Total rewards at P&G include salary + bonus (if applicable) + benefits. Your recruiter may be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the hiring process.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this role. For more information regarding who is eligible for hire at P&G along with other work authorization FAQ’s, please click HERE (https://www.pgcareers.com/us/en/hiring-faq) .

Procter & Gamble participates in E-Verify.

Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

P&G is dedicated to meeting the needs of applicants requesting an accommodation/adjustment due to a disability in order to complete the online application process. If you have a disability that affects your ability to complete our online application process, please visit our Disability Accommodation Page (https://www.pgcareers.com/global/en/disability-accommodation-request) .

Job Schedule

Full time

Job Number

R000159039

Job Segmentation

Experienced Professionals

Starting Pay / Salary Range

$125,700.00 - $157,100.00 / year

P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We’ve spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship.

The insight, innovation and passion of talented teams has helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and transparent, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.

How this job compares

Set against the 927 open Purchasing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–157K/yr
  • US median$70–101K/yr312 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $141K, is 67% above the US median midpoint ($84K) — in the top quarter of Purchasing salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 56 open Purchasing jobs in Ohio and 927 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Experience
Purchasing postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (644 postings).
Education
240 of the 927 open Purchasing jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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