Transportation Optimization Analyst

Supports company’s internal RFP process with Transportation and Distribution pricing solutions ; Provides pricing and profitability analyses for prospective opportunities

Reviews, writes, distributes and documents all contracts for new customers

Supports the customer onboarding process from a financial standpoint - including customer set-up, billing set-up, contract management, contract compliance, etc.

Supports company’s competitive bid efforts in all external Transportation and Warehousing partners’ RFP/RFQ opportunities

Prepares and presents monthly revenue reports – Distribution Centers, Distribution & Transportation Customers

Maintains monthly KPIs and create Performance Dashboards for Sales, Distribution, Transportation and Finance to be presented to leadership during monthly S&OP meetings

Maintains and updates standard rate cards in response to market demands and PiVAL operations

Collaborates with Finance and IT to ensure existing and new Transportation contracts ( Carrier cost rates and client sell rates ) are accurately captured in the TMS

Assists Transportation Operations in streamlining end-to-end transportation needs to deliver the required Transportation service at the optimal cost.

Collaborates with IT to address issues in TMS contracts: Out of Contract lanes, Billing exceptions, etc .

Periodically (weekly/bi-weekly/monthly/annual) updates Transportation rates in the TMS (e.g., weekly fuel surcharges based on weekly FCA fuel surcharges and different carrier contracts)

Creates internal and external reports (Power BI Reports, Deck presentations and Spreadsheets) for business use