Transportation Logistics Specialist

Transportation Logistics Specialist
Location

Inver Grove Heights, MN

Onsite Flexibility

Hybrid — Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 8am–5pm

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 5 months
• Start: As Soon As Possible
• Pay Rate: $45.00–$50.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 8am–5pm; potential overtime during harvest season

Job Summary

The Transportation Logistics Specialist will perform activities that ensure efficient truck transportation of materials and products from origin to destination for the CHS Ag and Energy Platforms. This position seeks a professional who will participate in identifying and selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective truck transportation. The Transportation Logistics Specialist will provide stakeholders in the product lines with accurate and market-based freight pricing and ensure that accurate freight rates are loaded in appropriate rating systems. They will build a firm understanding of freight markets within the position's scope of responsibility and use this understanding to communicate market insights, context, and knowledge to stakeholders within CHS. Likewise, the Transportation Logistics Specialist will work to improve organizational understanding of customer and plant specific shipping requirements across multiple product lines and assist in effectively managing to these requirements and communicating them to our third-party truck carriers.

Key Responsibilities

• Support CHS's enterprise transportation carrier management strategy through rate negotiations, relationship management, capacity management, shipment execution, truck carrier segmentation and overall spend management
• Negotiate rates with carriers, maximize load pairing (backhauls) and value creation across product lines in a collaborative manner with other CHS transportation team members
• Independently analyze current transportation operations practices to resolve process and cost improvement opportunities
• Work under general supervision and independently solve issues
• Negotiate rates and contract terms, ensuring rates paid for transportation services are competitive and executed in the best interest of CHS (one CHS voice to truck carriers)
• Serve as subject matter expert on transportation markets and rates
• Ensure that all third-party transportation relationships are profitable and accretive to business unit earnings
• Monitor carrier performance and KPIs and take corrective action to reverse negative trends and maintain required service levels to meet both CHS and customer expectations
• Update TMS (Master Mind), internal documents/spreadsheets, databases and systems for contracts, freight rates, and volume estimates, customer information and resolve any truck freight invoice issues to ensure accurate payments to third party truck carriers
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills

• Rate negotiation with transportation carriers
• Load pairing and backhaul optimization
• Transportation operations analysis
• Rate and contract term negotiation
• Knowledge of transportation markets
• Carrier performance monitoring and KPI management
• TMS (Master Mind) proficiency
• Freight rate management and pricing analysis
• Contract management
• Issue resolution and problem-solving
• Stakeholder communication

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Potential overtime during harvest season; must be open to working OT hours

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

Global Agribusiness Cooperative — a farmer-owned cooperative focused on energy, agronomy, grains, and foods. They connect farmers and customers to empower agriculture.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation's largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity!

Job Number

26-03731