Sr Associate Brokerage

Location: Irving, TX, 75063

Primary Responsibilities / Essential Functions

• Manage and execute ocean container booking pickups to meet customer commitments and coordinate with LDC colleagues and external suppliers:
  • Dispatch container drayage pickups in a timely and cost-effective manner aligned with drayage carrier capacity commitments, early return dates (ERD’s), and intermodal and port cutoffs.
  • Ensure timely, accurate, and complete data entry for container drayage orders into ATLAS.
• Monitor daily drayage carrier and ocean carrier store door pickup performance against ready date and update ATLAS where necessary with container, seal, and load date when not automatically populating.
• Manage existing relationships with container drayage carriers and develop new ones to build out capacity.
• Negotiate drayage rates based upon market prices, demand, and capacity in consultation with Manager.
• Review, approve, and update drayage invoices where accrual does not match supplier invoice in coordination with accounting.
• Engage daily with container drayage truckers on load challenges and problems that arise with respective LDC and dedicated warehouses; manage inventory and sales for non-LDC/dedicated warehouses and/or ocean carrier teams to ensure intermodal and port cutoffs are met.
• Broader engagement with the Domestic/International Logistics team:
  • Support day-to-day problem analysis and decision-making.
  • Review physical flow setups and identify opportunities to handle shipments more effectively.
  • Help identify, develop, prioritize, and implement process and systems improvements.
  • Cross-train colleagues in container drayage and cross-train in other functions and roles.
  • Model LDC corporate and DNA values and behaviors.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience

Minimum five years’ experience directly handling container drayage work within a midsize or larger organization.

Education / Professional Certifications / Licenses

Bachelor’s Degree preferred, with concentration in transportation, logistics, and/or supply chain management preferred.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Personal honesty, competence, and integrity in all work performed and engagement with others.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees as well as outside parties to communicate expectations and make recommendations to facilitate change.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to organize multiple responsibilities, prioritize workloads, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Self-directed with a high sense of urgency and strong bias for action in a high-pressure atmosphere on a daily basis.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows, specifically Excel.