Logistics Engineer II - Procurement

Uber Freight•Exton, PA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

Uber Freight Engineering works strategically with clients to gain an understanding of their specific supply chain challenges and to jointly explore supply chain improvement opportunities. In addition, the group provides tactical decision-making services that bridge the gap between strategic planning and operational execution. Our clients have taken advantage of our multi-level approach and have realized benefits such as network optimization, improved utilization of private fleet operations, lowest cost mode conversion, assignment of carriers to dedicated lanes and reduction of detention and accessorial charges.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Business, Transportation/Logistics or a related field
At least 1 year of logistics engineering/transportation procurement (RFP) experience

Nice To Haves

Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets
Basic Understanding of Supply Chain Management Principles & Strategies
Chemical Transportation knowledge
Ability to model real world distribution networks and able to analyze them
Ability to lead projects and work in a customer facing role

Responsibilities

Analyze consolidation savings for internal customers
Ad-Hoc Reporting
Statistical Analysis
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of customers supply chain opportunities and challenges
Use advanced modeling to evaluate and optimize the customer's transportation and distribution network
Lane Benchmarking (Utilize Uber Freight market knowledge and leverage existing Uber Freight data, including procurement and that of external data sources.)
Help design an optimized Transportation Strategy for our customers to support their goals
Serve as engineering lead on consulting and strategic projects
Interact with customers, gather requirements, prepare and present outcomes of the analysis
Work with a broad team and coordinate various engineering tasks required for project completion