Airfreight Specialist

Franklin, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 5 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Air Freight Planning Liaison (Planner)

Location: Franklin TN (Onsite)

Duration: 12 months

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 POs 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)

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

Required Skills:

NAM Transportation & Customs Supply Chain Planning Logistics and Global Supply Chain Ocean and Air Modes of Transportation Bi-Lingual Strong EXCEL Strong planning and communication

Required Education:

Mid-Level 3-5 years experience

Air Freight Planning Liaison (Planner)Location: Franklin TN (Onsite)Duration: 12 months 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 th...