Analyst, Transportation

Why Work for KeHE?: Full-time Pay Range: $53,000.00/Yr. - $77,715.00/Yr. Shift Days: , Shift Time: Benefits on Day 1 Health/Rx Dental Vision Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA) Supplemental life insurance 401(k) Paid time off Paid sick time Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD) Employee stock ownership (ESOP) Holiday pay for company designated holidays Overview: At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good. Primary Responsibilities: The Transportation Analyst is responsible for coordinating the process of all modes of transportation sourcing, supporting the overall strategy of identifying opportunities within the logistics department. These opportunities include efficiency, cost savings and customer satisfaction. The Transportation Analyst will achieve this by communicating quickly and effectively through the entire process, from pickup to delivery, while working quickly to resolve complications that develop on a shipment. There is a strong emphasis on working with internal members, suppliers, carriers, customers, and distribution centers. Essential Functions: Position Accountabilities: Responsible for performing inbound load planning activities by applying logistics skills through consolidation of purchase orders, routing and selecting the best possible carrier, mode, and transportation strategy to meet service and freight income expectations (cost, highest service). Manage day-to-day activities, track and trace loads, communicate load changes and or issues, maintain load visibility from origin to destination and assist with issue resolution and communication. Assist carriers in resolving issues regarding loading, pickup appointments and communicate to appropriate parties as necessary. Identify optimal freight solutions to achieve and surpass desired results, in driving transportation metrics such as payload utilization, late PO impact, cost per pound, and on-time performance. Awareness of metrics and numbers pertaining payload utilization, late PO impact, cost per pound, and on-time performance, and saving initiatives. Responsible for achievement of period, quarterly and annual transportation goals by planning the transportation of products from suppliers to the end distribution center using the most cost-effective methods. Required to be highly analytical in order to generate daily/weekly/period reports as required from the TMS, ERP, Power BI and any other KeHE systems to facilitate revenue, cost, savings based continuous improvement. Consult with project team members and customer stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current reporting capabilities, and challenges related to the business functions. Manage and report on relevant KPIs. Find timely, efficient, and cost-effective ways to transport good. Analyze cost efficiency of existing lanes/routing guides and load configurations on an ongoing basis, implementing efficiencies where appropriate. Researching procurement and shipping options, analyzing financial data, creating estimates, identify problem areas and budget deviations and overseeing projects. Creating and maintaining documentation of procedures and processes. Ability to produce reports based on Transportation data and present findings. Maintain the necessary data to drive optimization utilizing the capabilities of the transportation solution system. Collaborate with carrier management, supply chain, sales, and other necessary departments to improve load profitability, reduce negative freight in…

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