Our Traffic Analyst leads daily operations associated with domestic and international shipment of products.
This position interacts with customers and contracted third party logistics partners to ensure on-time performance, while maintaining appropriate cost structure.
Analyzes Transportation information to recommend changes in Logistics network.
Assists in maintaining of carrier performance standards and recommends addition or elimination of carriers based on economic and performance data.
Interfaces with Business Development and Sales to formulate freight pricing and freight matrices for new product opportunities.
**In your new role you will**:
- Ensures daily communication between carriers, plant, and customers to work through delivery issues.
Focus is 98%+ to keep file information updated according with the needs and daily shipments most of them from outside of the factory to the factory (Ocean, Ground and Air)
- Works closely with transportation carriers to increase whole information to keep freight report updated and develop metrics to allow for ease of evaluation.
Analyzes routing guide data and provides weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly measurable reports and statistics.
- Performs detailed analysis by location, carrier, and mode selection to outline network inefficiencies and cost opportunities.
- Provides the analysis related to logistics process
- Reviews freight bills for accuracy.
- Maintains approved carrier list.
- Develops and enforces transportation policies and procedures.
- Oversees process of investigation and response to customer or shipper complaints related to transportation issues.
(Claims)
- Audits daily shipment logs and analyzes compliance to policies and procedures.
- Utilizes logic and reasoning to identify strength and weaknesses of alternative solutions to achieve transportation cost savings.
- Uses analytical tools to optimize transportation and distribution operations to add value to the bottom line.
**You are best equipped for this task if you have**:
- Bachelor Degree in Administration, Logistics, Commercial or any related field.
- 3+ years' experience in a logistics management role.
- Strong interpersonal skills in team building and project management.
- Strong use of Excel or some database tool
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated skills in problem solving, statistics and quality.
- Ability to prepare cost estimates, justifications, and analysis.
- Ability to work interdependently, to be respectful, approachable and team oriented
- Strong advanced English - Written and verbal communication skills.