At-a-Glance:
Are you ready to build your career by joining an international food and beverage company? If so, our client is hiring a Warehouse Transportation Coordinator.
Position Type:
Required:
- Results-driven leader with a passion for operations and innovation.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in supply chain preferred.
- Experience: 1 - 2 years of experience in transportation or logistical operations.
Leadership: Proven ability to lead teams, influence across functions, and drive results in a fast-paced, startup-like environment while leading with a mindset to exceed all Objectives/Metrics.
- Technical Skills: Familiarity with WMS, SAP, transportation systems, and labor management systems.
- Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Communication: Excellent cross functional collaboration, team building skills, and the ability to influence in a matrixed environment.
- Flexibility: Comfortable working in unstructured environments and making quick, informed decisions.
- Travel: Occasional travel required (less than 10%).
Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
Play a critical role in driving operational excellence, team development, and strategic 3PL partnerships while supporting all aspects of the Inbound/Outbound Dock Schedule. Responsibilities will include:
Leadership & Team Development:
- Lead communication with all transport carriers, utilizing high level planning and performance management.
- Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Solve day-to-day transportation challenges and achieving long-term goals with scheduling. 3PL & Operational Excellence:
- Partner with 3PL on dock scheduling, implementation of the dock schedule, and execution of the dock schedule.
- Drive improvements in dock performance by providing a strategic dock schedule.
Inventory & Process Management:
- Leverage and Spotlight Optimization tools to enhance scheduling and product availability.
- Maintain compliance with regulatory standards and corporate policies, including safety, transportation, accounting, and purchasing.
Customer Service & Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Ensure on-time delivery aligned with Requested/Scheduled Arrival Dates.
- Build strong relationships across Co-Packers, Repacker, COE’s, and MFG.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve operational issues and deliver exceptional customer service.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all transportation responsibilities for Campus facilities.
- Route Orders daily in compliance with the transportation route guide; ensuring timely execution to meet the requested ship date and secure carrier capacity ahead of the competition.
- Track carrier performance and troubleshoot any loads that may be at risk of missing requested arrival date.
- Ensure all new orders comply with guidelines on weight and method of shipment.
- Work with carriers to schedule all assigned outbound and inbound shipments to facility.
- Schedule appointments on all loads; working with the campus manager and third-party facility manager on dock capacity scheduling.
- Work with:
- All carriers on daily execution.
- On-site Transportation to deliver daily and weekly measurables.
- COE (center of excellence), and the service team on scheduling issues.
- COE, Warehouse, and Transportation on loads not scheduled by end of period.
- Maintain reason code input within SAP for open order status reporting.
- Review previous day’s dock schedule to ensure all orders are shipped, if not ensure timely reschedule.
- Collaborate with the shipping office regarding specific shipment requirements.
- Accountable for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance with the Overdue Mill Transit Receipts Report and Shipment Status Report.
- Ownership of daily, weekly, period service metrics as they relate to the role.
- Will be cross trained to support other service center functions.
- All other duties as assigned.
Get in Touch:
If you think you'd be a good match, submit your resume and reach out to Bharat at 862-658-6248 to learn more.
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