Transportation Specialist

Winston Brands is looking for a Transportation Specialist to join our Logistics team. In this role you will be a Liaison between vendors and carriers performing routing tasks to insure on-time delivery of Domestic PO’s. You will audit our transportation costs with actual carrier costs and coordinate any carrier claims. You will be successful in this role if you have good interpersonal skills, work well with others, adapt well to a continuously changing environment and have the ability to take ownership of your work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Audit and analyze carriers invoices, creates claims for overages, shortages, damages, late deliveries, and mischarges; and approves invoices for payment.
• Monitor and report on carrier performance utilizing system-provided or third party-provided information and coordinate carrier claims.
• Assists in maintaining transportation rating, routing and configuration tables as needed.
• Provide transportation rate estimates as needed from internal and external tools.
• Provide guidance to business units with regards to government and carrier transportation regulations (HazMat LQ/ORM-D).
• Run and maintain transportation reports, checking for errors and distributing them. Perform data entry as needed.
• Route, rate, track and resolve open service issues on LTL shipments as needed.
• Learn to create and run ad-hoc reports using guidance and direction from management.
• Monitor Internal exception reporting providing resolution to the issue and long-term process corrections.

Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years logistics experience; transportation and domestic logistics experience preferred.
• Preferred associates degree in transportation, business, logistics, data analytics or related; or equivalent experience in transportation and small package shipping.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Strong computer skills including word processing, spreadsheet, database programs, and report writing; especially Excel.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong follow-through and attention to detail and accuracy of own work.