Routing Specialist
Location: Houston, TX | Job Type: Full-time | Pay: $21.25 - $21.75
Do you have the business savvy and problem-solving skills necessary to drive continuous improvement at scale? Are you looking to hit the ground running and have an immediate impact in a highly visible role? If so, you are a great fit for the Routing Operations team.
Transportation Routing is looking to add a Routing Specialist to our team. This person will play a key role in planning routes that deliver perfect, cost effective orders at scale for one or more of Wayfair’s first or last mile depots.
What you will do:
Execute daily outbound resource plans to achieve customer experience, speed, and cost goals
Use data to drive continuous improvement in core business outcomes: Planned Stops per Route, Transportation Efficiency (Utilization), Scheduled Dwell, In-Window %, Routes Hrs, and Route Review Timing.
Proactively monitor upcoming routes, identifying efficiency opportunities, correcting input defects, and resolving potential violations of customer experience and operational feasibility
Publish routes to local depot within agreed upon SLA
Partner with local depot and centralized network planning teams to meet throughput requirements of building
Facilitate local site feedback to identify trends, change settings, or proactively address local situation (e.g. bridge closure, weather event, carrier training)
Be a subject matter expert in Routing software (Descartes) to reduce defects and time-spent routing while achieving business objectives
Provide direct input to Routing + Scheduling technology teams about existing tools and make recommendations for process changes/improvements
Key Competencies for Success:
Bias for action and continuous improvement: Delivers results at an incredibly high level, incredibly consistently
Prioritizes tasks, swiftly identifies tasks requiring additional support from manager, and proactively provides updates to manager
Able to effectively carry on with tasks, using guidance from standardized documentation or manager, in a reasonable timeframe when deviations occur from the norm for tasks
Supports port mortem learning opportunities with the broader team and stakeholders, as needed
Utilizes all tools and scripts available to analyze data from various sources
Sanity checks data by proactively asking questions and verifying assumptions
Comfortably presents & converses with functional team
Utilizes data when providing written updates to peer stakeholder groups, clearly describing key takeaways and findings
Creates artifacts/ trackers that are easy to follow & can be shared with broader stakeholder groups
Documents process flows and SOPs for processes, as needed
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