Airfreight Specialist
Performix•Franklin, TN
•Onsite
About The Position
Join client 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.
Requirements
- Ocean and Air Modes of Transportation
- Mid-Level 3-5 years’ experience
- Strong planning and communication skills
- Will be processing proper checks and balances with the team
- Strong EXCEL is also important for this role
Nice To Haves
- Bi-Lingual is a huge plus
Responsibilities
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
