Analyst, Inbound Domestic Transportation
About The Position
Responsible for managing inbound domestic collect transportation operations, including daily shipment tracking and tracing, carrier performance monitoring, freight exception management, and coordination with suppliers and transportation providers. Acts as a key contact for carriers, vendors, distribution centers, and internal business partners to support on-time delivery and resolve issues. Performs transportation analysis, supports freight payment and audit activities, and uses TMS tools to optimize service and cost. Identifies operational trends, recommends process improvements, and helps improve supply chain efficiency while ensuring compliance with transportation requirements and company standards. The role performs moderately complex analysis, reporting, metric calculations, issue resolution, and gap analysis under general supervision. It tracks the benefits of implemented solutions, communicates risks and mitigation recommendations to senior staff, builds collaborative working relationships, shares knowledge, and recommends process improvements. Routine work is performed with general instructions; new projects or assignments receive detailed instructions.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree, or a high school diploma/GED plus at least 3 years of experience in a supply chain or business role, or successful completion of the Walgreens Supply Chain Co-op Program, or a high school diploma/GED plus at least 4 years of experience in a supply chain or business role.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills, such as using SUM, setting borders and column widths, inserting charts, text wrapping, sorting, setting headers and footers, and print scaling.
- Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes, within state and out of state.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, or Business, and at least 1 year of experience in a supply chain or business role.
- Transportation and/or Logistics certification.
- Experience with routing software and/or a TMS system, AS400, or SAP platform.
- Knowledge of Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.
- Private fleet experience in a multi-stop environment.
- Accident and claims management experience.
- Microsoft 365 skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Responsibilities
- Manage inbound domestic collect transportation operations, including daily shipment tracking and tracing.
- Monitor carrier performance and manage freight exceptions.
- Coordinate with suppliers, transportation providers, carriers, vendors, distribution centers, and internal business partners to support on-time delivery and resolve issues.
- Perform transportation analysis and support freight payment and audit activities.
- Use TMS tools to optimize transportation service and cost.
- Identify operational trends and recommend process improvements to improve supply chain efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with transportation requirements and company standards.
- Analyze moderately complex information, problems, and data; make recommendations for review by senior staff.
- Track and measure the benefits of implemented solutions, apply company policies and procedures to resolve issues, and perform gap analysis when needed.
- Communicate perceived risks to senior staff and leadership, with recommendations for mitigation.
- Calculate metrics and develop, analyze, and distribute reports involving moderately complex issues.
- Build productive internal and external working relationships, collaborate, and share knowledge with the team.
- Resolve moderately complex issues and recommend streamlined processes to senior staff, assisting with change as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
