Transportation Program Manager
About The Position
Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us!
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in transportation, logistics and/or supply chain
- 7+ years of work experience managing transportation for a company the size of Coherent
- Experience in carrier or other related third party management
- Experience with Oracle Transportation Management tool or other Transportation Management system
- Experience in contractual and negotiation management
- Project management skills and experience
- Proficiency in MS Office skills (Excel, PPT, Word, etc.)
- Knowledge of creating process flow diagrams (Microsoft Visio)
- All employees are required to follow the site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. Corporate EHS standards.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of databases and Power BI is an advantage
Responsibilities
- Provide transportation analysis with focus on business unit / supply chain requirements
- Provide recommendations on freight cost savings and streamlining opportunities
- Provide quarterly reports to business units that include cost savings opportunities and results
- Develop and maintain billing systems to ensure accuracy of supplier payments / account coding
- Resolve shipping issues and make recommendations for process improvements
- Creating and revising standard operating procedures for logistics processes
- Training of freight forwarders / carriers
- Creating and tracking transportation process documents
- Conduct carrier RFP for domestic and international transportation
- Execute and enable carriers for domestic and international transportation
- Maintaining the list of approved carriers and the routing guide; training and enforcing the use of the routing guide
- Conduct quarterly business reviews with the business units and carriers
- Preparation of shipping forecasts
- Review and negotiate carrier contracts, including negotiating freight rates
- Working with business units to maximize transportation savings potential and providing quarterly status reports
- Guiding and advising departments to optimize logistics performance
- Taking corrective action with carriers in the event of service failures
- Manage one-time rate quotes and one-time shipments to support business units
- Monitor and develop transportation key performance indicators (KPIs)
Benefits
- competitive compensation program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
