TMS Analyst

Position Summary:

The Logistics TMS Analyst will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities related to Logistics for North America or Global. This includes tracking shipments, ensuring documentation and funds are provided for customs clearance. This position involves interaction with various internal department personnel and country managers, as well as external customers and freight facilitators. The applicant should possess good written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to multi-task in this fast-paced environment.

Essential Job Functions:

North America

• Work efficiently and accurately
• Pays attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced environment and deal with demands under tight timelines
• Work independently and excellent time management
• Ensure data being analyzed and presented is accurate
• Utilizing SAP and TMS system daily
• Manage freight lane data within TMS system
• Lead process for setting up new lanes in TMS as needed
• Work with internal and external carriers to ensure data integrity and accuracy
• Address internal and external customer issues
• Manage daily, weekly, monthly, annual Transportation reporting for data analysis
• Analyze data and design new deployment models as needed
• Based on data analysis, work with management to optimize carrier selection, lanes, and call out data that does not align with current SOP’s.

Global

• Schedule container bookings to fulfill customer finished goods orders and/or production planning of raw material needs, as well as coordinating the shipment of Premium and Apparel commodities.
• Maintain container log to track shipments accurately so that trigger dates for inventory movement and billing are reported accurately.
• Provide necessary information and documentation to warehouses and freight forwarders to effectively coordinate the timely loading of shipments
• Prepare necessary shipping documents or work with customer service personnel to ensure that all customs clearance requirements are met
• Coordinate prepayment of customs clearance fees
• Assist in procuring bids on shipping lanes
• Effectively communicate with various internal departments to ensure product availability, adherence to quality control guidelines and packaging standards.
• Ensure that required shipping documents are on file and maintained for the specified audit requirement period
• Other duties as assigned by the Logistics Manager or Director of Logistics

Requirements:

• SAP experience preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Must be able to understand issues, help create solutions
• Superior attention to detail
• Positive attitude, self-motivated and ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills
• A least 3 years’ experience in the field of transportation
• Intermediate SQL & Excel experience
• Experience with Business Intelligence Software such as Power BI & Tableau. Other experience with BI software a plus
• Experience creating and presenting high level reports of data analysis

BASE PAY RANGE:  $23.00 - $27.00 per hour

Salary : $23 - $27