Our client is one of the largest importer & producers of shrimp, mussels, lobsters, crab and finfish. They produce over a 100 million lbs. of finished seafood products annually.
Logistics Coordinator
This role is responsible for planning and executing transportation services from vendor shipping to stores and to third-party cross-dock facilities, ensuring ontime delivery at an appropriate cost and service level.
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities:
- Plan and tender refrigerated loads to carrier base.
- Ensure that all loads are covered in a timely manner.
- Perform inbound load planning activities through consolidation of purchase orders, routing and carrier selection to meet service expectations for freight type and delivery date.
- Track loads to ensure on-time delivery and proactively communicate potential delivery delays to stores/buyers/management.
- Proactively resolve urgent customer situations related to product delivery.
- Identify and select the best mode of transportation to reduce costs.
- Work with carriers to ensure accuracy of freight bills.
- Develop relationships with current and new carriers and continually negotiate competitive rates with entire carrier pool.
- Work directly with buying department to improve load profitability.
- Provide "out of office" coverage for other load planners as necessary.
- Follow policies and procedures put in place by management.
- Possess the ability to act equally well in the role of team leader, team member, or facilitator.
- Participate in special projects to drive continuous improvement.
- Develop and manage key carrier metrics.
- Assess service issues and provide root cause analysis to resolve chronic problems (either internal or external).
- Anticipate and proactively communicate delivery issues to customer service.
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain/Logistics, or similar work experience.
- Knowledge of FMCSA regulations.
- Experience working with TMS systems.
- HOS regulations.
- High level of Microsoft Office software knowledge.
- Maintain a professional manner at all times.
- Extremely organized with excellent attention to detail.
- Extremely effective with communication skills.
- Negotiation skills.
This position offers a competitive base salary.
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