Overview
Key Activities, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities:
- Coordinate all load and shipment processes with local plant, warehouse, terminal personnel, carriers, and freight forwarders to ensure on-time delivery to internal or external customers.
- Proactively monitor open orders and deliveries to avoid and resolve issues early, mitigating the negative impact of unavoidable disturbances.
- Serve as the key transactional contact for customers, third-party logistics service providers, and freight forwarders.
- Ensure adherence to the defined operational escalation process, involving leads, regional experts, and plant personnel when encountering unforeseen delays in shipping from the plant and final delivery to the customer.
- Manage exceptions and emergency situations effectively.
- Assist in resolving freight invoice discrepancies.
- Document, investigate, and follow up on internal and external complaints.
- Recommend process improvements, including investigating quality failures and developing preventive and corrective actions.
- Maintain key internal relationships with business, sales, supply chain planning, logistics procurement, product management, and other functions.
Key Deliverables / Expectations:
- Generate regular operational and KPI reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly), share findings and trends with leadership, and suggest improvement ideas where necessary.
- Meet or exceed monthly KPI metrics and objectives.
Requirements / Experiences:
- 2-3 years (or 3-5 years for specialists) of logistics operations, export/import experience.
- Fluent in English; knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese is an advantage.
- Knowledge of SAP.
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of transportation systems (e.g., TMS).
Core Competencies / Behaviors:
- Customer-focused mindset.
- Drive for results.
- Strong, decisive personality.
- Effective time management.
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to build relationships.
- Ability to work in a global, fast-paced, and complex environment.
- Flexibility and adaptability to change.
- Stress resilience.
- Responsibility and engagement.