Senior Transporation Planner

Saputo•Milwaukee, WI

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Transportation Planner supports transportation planning and load-planning operations for truckload and less-than-truckload orders. The role analyzes distribution plans, identifies shipment-consolidation opportunities, and routes shipments to meet individual customer delivery requirements while improving operational efficiency and transportation performance. The planner works with transportation managers, customer service representatives, plant and distribution-center personnel, and carriers to deliver quality transportation service, resolve service issues, improve carrier performance, and develop cost-effective solutions. The position also mentors new load planners, provides team coverage, and uses transportation management and enterprise resource planning systems to produce and analyze reports. This is a hybrid office position with four days in the office and one day remote. The listed salary range is $73,815–$92,270; offers vary based on experience, education, skills, and training.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or equivalent job experience.
At least 3–5 years of experience in the transportation field.
Transportation operations experience.
Strong communication, planning, analytical, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Experience participating on cross-functional teams.
Ability to develop relationships with all levels of management.

Nice To Haves

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex distribution plans to support load-planning operations for truckload and LTL orders.
Identify opportunities to consolidate orders into multi-stop truckloads and route shipments to meet customer delivery requirements.
Find optimal freight solutions to improve operational efficiency and transportation metrics, including payload utilization, late-delivery impact, on-time performance, and savings initiatives.
Mentor and train new load planners.
Provide coverage for absent members of the Transportation Planning team.
Assist transportation managers in analyzing data and identifying and implementing cost-effective solutions.
Analyze historical data trends to guide future operational efficiencies.
Generate and analyze daily, weekly, and periodic reports from TMS/ERP systems.
Provide transportation services to internal and external customers while working with customer service representatives, plant and distribution-center personnel, and carriers to resolve service issues.
Plan transportation for pickups of purchased products and interplant movements to Saputo Distribution Centers.
Proactively prevent service issues and continuously improve carrier performance.
Develop working relationships with major carriers and resolve carrier issues, including rerouting loads, in-transit issues, and OS&D matters.