Analyst, Transportation

• 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

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.

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.

 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 income, create optimal cost and service offering to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities working across internal and external customers.
• Build relationships with and work directly with carriers to understand their service capabilities, improve tender acceptance rate, on-time pick up and on time delivery, and continuously monitor their performance, this includes direct interact by phone, email, and/or in person.
• Partner closely with 3rd party carriers as well the KeHE fleets to drive out waste and achieve appropriate service levels.
• Assess service issues. Provide root cause analysis to resolve chronic problems (either internal or external). Ability to find creative solutions to service issues.
• Be able to resolve situations quickly, communicate status of problem, and work with the appropriate subject matter expert until it is fixed, and escalate issues to management as they arise.
• Take part in account and customer related programs and special projects to drive efficiencies and continues improvement efforts.
• Assure that established KeHE policies and procedures are followed in carrying out accountabilities.
• Any additional inbound KeHE inbound transportation program/projects.

Qualifications:

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, logistics or supply chain preferred.

Related Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of supply chain, logistics, purchasing, or work in the transportation industry required. Prior experience working in a fast-paced foodservice purchasing and/or logistics environment is highly preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational skills, customer focused.
• Demonstrate a keen attention to detail, be able to communicate across cross-functional teams and be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Outlook), Access & TMS system.
• Must be able to use excel pivot tables, Zoom meetings, and have knowledge of BOLs/PODs and utilizing them to confirm delivery.
• Must be results-oriented, self-directed, be able to problem solve, have excellent time management skills, possess strong analytical and project management skills.
• Must be able to lead a team and manage multiple tasks or projects simultaneously
• Strong process improvement skills
• Expert knowledge in transportation and market trends.
• Ability to influence others and able to communicate with senior management leadership in the transportation industry in a professional manner.
• Strong people skills, strong verbal/written communication skills, including being able to independently compose various communications. Must understand and comprehend English documents.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hours of Work

• Must be flexible and willing to work the demands of the department which may include evenings, weekends, holidays, and travel when needed
• Office hours may vary based on the distribution center locations.