Logistics Coordinator

The Logistics Coordinator is responsible for reporting, developing, and executing the most efficient way of moving goods while improving service, quality, and operation cost nationwide on behalf of Olipop. The Logistics Coordinator will deliver efficient, effective, and flexible solutions to meet production requirements, while playing a pivotal role as a bridge between Warehouse, E-Commerce, and Customer Service teams, to support our overall business objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate processes for warehouse and material transfers to hit KPI targets.
• Running daily open order/track and trace report to ensure all warehouse and material transfers from plant to warehouse/vendor to plant move as scheduled.
• Schedule/Track/Monitor 3rd Party Carriers to ensure they have capacity and loads planned.
• Day-to-day order management and management of deliveries to meet critical deadlines.
• Understand and manage risks to minimize impact to the production schedule.
• Take follow up actions in relation to warehouse and material transfer delays that may affect production.
• Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to forecast, plan, and facilitate on-time execution of transfers to the warehouse, avoiding disruption to production.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with all key stakeholders to ensure capacity for warehouse and material transfers is met and deliveries as planned.
• Resolve warehouse/plant concerns and evaluate carrier performance in conjunction with members of the warehouse, material and deployment teams.
• Identify critical issues and escalate appropriately, assemble opportunities, and engage appropriate decision makers to continuously resolve critical business obstacles. You’ll utilize your highly analytical skills, using Excel, NetSuite, TMS, and Tableau.
• Interact and build positive relationships with internal and external partners (i.e., Warehousing, Customer Service, Planning, 3rd Party Carriers) to achieve business and customer service goals.
• Creates and analyzes basic reports to support daily business execution. Develops business tools to ensure we hit cost/service Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Runs daily, weekly, and monthly excel pivots  and reports, updates shared files.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-2+ years of experience in transportation, with 2+ years managing carrier relationships and dispatching is required
• Relevant experience in Logistics, Transportation, Supply Chain or another relevant field is required
• Prior experience in the consumer goods industry desired, food or beverage preferred
• Good understanding of supply chain process and their interdependencies is preferred
• Experience with (NetSuite/SAP a plus) and Transportation Management Systems (Princeton TMX a plus)
• Strong computer skills with knowledge of Word and PowerPoint and experienced analysis capabilities utilizing intermediate Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas) and Access
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills with the ability to reach win-win solutions with internal and external partners
• Available to provide after-hours and weekend support on an as-needed basis to meet business needs
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability to build relationships
• Excellent follow-up skills with a customer focused approach
• Experience with Tableau preferred

REPORTS TO

Transportation Manager

COMPENSATION

$70,000-$75,000 base salary + bonus