Air Freight Planning Specialist

SGS_JOB_3868

Engineering
 Tennessee
Air
Ocean
Cargo
Freight Planning

Contract - 12 Months

Location - Franklin, TN Ocean and Air Modes of Transportation, Mid-Level 3-5 years of experience, Bi-Lingual is a huge plus, strong planning and communication skills, will be processing proper checks and balances with the team. Strong EXCEL is also important for this role.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Join our team as the NAM Transportation Airfreight Approval Leader!
  • In this pivotal role, you will evaluate and take action to minimize both domestic and international airfreight usage in North America for the NAM Transportation & Customs team
  • Process referent and owner of Airfreight approval process, accountable to enforce compliance, proper level of information for decision making and correct cost allocation.
  • Evaluate tactical requests for airfreight, confirm necessity, and communicate with requestor.
  • Identify non-compliant airfreight occurrences, calculate impacts (cost and CO2) and communicate to leadership.
  • Analyze open PO’s and communicate with Planning personnel on opportunities to reduce upcoming airfreight usage proactively.
  • Assess and maintain master data parameters for accurate air and ocean freight cost estimate vs Transit Times for decision making based on data.
  • Monthly review with Finance to guarantee correct cost allocation of airfreight to different projects and cost center.
  • Collaborate with Planning to define airfreight forecast for the subsequent months and discuss capacity with carriers and freight forwarders.
  • Translate forecast into transport handling units, weights, and dimensions.
  • Analyze deviations on forecast vs actual utilization and collaborate with planning to improve accuracy.
  • Lead and collaborate with International Transport Operations and Procurement to identify and communicate hybrid alternatives to airfreight.
  • Develop KPIs to analyze airfreight pareto and key triggers for action.
  • Explore, identify, and develop internal tools to simplify overall process and streamline the approval flow.
  • Assist LTP Leader with Ad-Hoc project support

Skills:

  • Supply Chain Planning - central team.
  • Manufacturing Upstream Production planning and Shipping teams.
  • Spot quote team.
  • Transport Operations team.
  • Logistics and Global Supply Chain functional leaders (Quality, Supply Chain Planning, Trade, Transport).
  • IT Solutions Teams (Master Data, ERP).

Education/Experience:

  • No Specific Qualification

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