Transportation Support Specialist

Aston Carter•Nashville, TN

6d•$22 - $22•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking highly skilled and motivated Logistics Specialists to assist in the management of daily freight movements flowing into and out of our North American fulfillment centers and our associated fulfillment network. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team in a huge growth area. An ideal candidate has a background in transportation and excellent customer service skills. He/she has the ability to coordinate between multiple parties to ensure high levels of customer service. This job will require exceptional communication skills while having the ability to work independently in a high pressure environment.

Requirements

customer service
Operations
Excel
ms office suite
logistics
transportation
intermodal
supply chain
freight
dispatch
Transportation and Logistics experience is a plus but not needed. Must have Customer service experience with deescalating and problem solving. Can be from managing customer accounts, conflict resolution, escalation calls, etc.
Analytical experience is also good as long as they are okay with taking calls. Taking different inputs from different sources and resolving these would be helpful in this role.

Responsibilities

Continual, tactical communication and account management with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers)
Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
Review data and reports related to appointment and arrival times and the ability to make business decisions/process improvement based off of reported data.
Excellent communication, both verbal and written as you will be required to create a narrative outlining your weekly findings and the variances to goals, and present these finding in a review forum.
Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed.
Lead initiatives to re-engineer business processes and identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in Amazon’s transportation operations.
Must be able to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.
Develop performance metrics to assist with driving business results.
Ability to scope out business and functional requirements for the Amazon tech teams who create and enhance the software systems and tools we use.
Must be able to quickly understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data.