Duration: 12+ Months Contract role with possible extension
Top 3 Skills:
Ocean and Air Modes Of Transportation, Mid Level 3-5 years experience, Bi-Lingual is a huge plus, strong planning and communication skills, will be processing proper checks and balances with the team. Strong EXCEL is also important for this role.
Job Duties:
Join Client as the NAM Transportation Airfreight Approval Leader! In this pivotal role, you will evaluate and take action to minimize both domestic and international airfreight usage in North America for the NAM Transportation & Customs team.
Key Responsibilities:
• Process referent and owner of Airfreight approval process, accountable to enforce compliance, proper level of information for decision making and correct cost allocation.
• Evaluate tactical requests for airfreight, confirm necessity, and communicate with requestor.
• Identify non-compliant airfreight occurrences, calculate impacts (cost and CO2) and communicate to leadership.
• Analyze open PO’s and communicate with Planning personnel on opportunities to reduce upcoming airfreight usage proactively.
• Assess and maintain master data parameters for accurate air and ocean freight cost estimate vs Transit Times for decision making based on data.
• Monthly review with Finance to guarantee correct cost allocation of airfreight to different projects and cost center.
• Collaborate with Planning to define airfreight forecast for the subsequent months and discuss capacity with carriers and freight forwarders.
• Translate forecast into transport handling units, weights, and dimensions.
• Analyze deviations on forecast vs actual utilization and collaborate with planning to improve accuracy.
• Lead and collaborate with International Transport Operations and Procurement to identify and communicate hybrid alternatives to airfreight.
• Develop KPIs to analyze airfreight pareto and key triggers for action.
• Explore, identify, and develop internal tools to simplify overall process and streamline the approval flow.
• Assist LTP Leader with Ad-Hoc project support.
Key Interfaces:
• Supply Chain Planning - central team
• Manufacturing Upstream Production planning and Shipping teams
• Spot quote team
• Transport Operations team
• Logistics and Global Supply Chain functional leaders (Quality, Supply Chain Planning, Trade, Transport)
• IT Solutions Teams (Master Data, ERP)
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Recruiter Details:
Name: Ishan bajaj
Email: ishan.b@ustechsolutions.com
Internal Id: 26-08408