Transport Coordinator

Description:

Opportunity to join our Transport team and provide support to our customers through effective coordination with our 3PL network.

Purpose of role: To provide timely support and service to our customers through the effective coordination with our 3PL network

• Schedule outbound customer shipments for assigned DC(s) while utilizing SAP and BD's Transportation Management System to select an appropriate carrier to meet BD's customer requirements.

• Manage the outbound transportation routing and scheduling for BD customers across Australia and New Zealand .

• Work closely with project managers to organize time sensitive(WGF) bookings .

• Work closely with the 3PL partners in organizing and scheduling freight, providing shipment details as per plan to ensure freight moves in the most cost-effective manner

• Proactively identify gaps and contribute to the process of establishing controls resulting in zero compliance issues

• Prepare mostly reports for Management reporting on freight out spends across vendors, exceptional freight spends etc.

• Be the single point of contact with freight vendors for day-to-day management of outbound operations and organizing ad hoc requirements

• Work closely with the carriers in understanding and circulating Rate Cards and anticipated increase/ change in charges and invoice validations.

• Work closely with carriers to understand carrier system capability as a part of total transport system architecture including integration of data and functionality. etc.

• Proactively work with the DC and customers on any complaints and issues reported and ensure an RCA is completed and corrective actions are implemented for all issues raised

• Manage various transportation Continuous Improvement Initiatives

• Monthly freight accrual and analysis of freight spend

• Reverse logistics management

• Excel and SAP to extract and interpret data.

• Ability to multi-task and deal with high pressure environments

• Proactive
• Strong Attention to detail
• High Volume experience preferred
• Team player who can work collaboratively
• Problem solving skills and solutions orientated
• Customer focused
• Business and finance acumen
• End-to-end SC management/function