Carrier Specialist Job at Family Dollar, Chesapeake, VA

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  • Family Dollar
  • Chesapeake, VA

Job Description

Summary of Position -

* To support and maintain carrier relationships to ensure successful negotiation and consumption of carrier services, providing the lowest landed cost of North American goods to an exceptional service standard

* Represent the inbound transportation team to the larger organization to ensure optimal collaboration to support new and evolving vendor programs, sales goals and budget fluctuations

* Work closely with the DC Management, Outbound Transportation Operations, Replenishment and Buying staff, Carriers and the Inbound functional teams to optimize inbound transportation

Principal Duties and Responsibilities -

The primary tasks the associate will perform during his/her work schedule

* Effectively communicate and implement all domestic inbound transportation programs, procedures and policies as negotiated with carriers

* Collaborate with the buying staff to support negotiation of favorable freight terms with suppliers

* Utilize available data and information to creatively solution and recommend inbound transportation strategies to improve cost and service levels

* Facilitate and implement programs with buyers and vendors

* Execute reports to evaluate and continually improve the performance of the inbound carrier base by assessing and managing each carrier’s overall support of Dollar Tree

* Continuously research emerging and existing supply chain strategies for incorporation into current FD carrier consumption processes

* Participate in budget development and budget reporting, to include the monthly P&L

* Collaborate with finance determine project ROI’s and budget; ensuring carrier and merchant activities occur within the bounds of the annual and monthly budget

* Support operational disaster recovery to ensure business continuity

* Represent transportation relations in business meetings

* Organize and prioritize workload and tasks to ensure proper flow of information

* Complete other various assignments, as required

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications - Summary of knowledge, experience and education required.

* Bachelor’s degree with a major in business, logistics or finance is preferred; or equivalent work experience

* Two to three years of transportation experience

* Working knowledge of LTL, truckload and intermodal operations, third party dedicated fleet management, industry contracts and vernacular

* Extensive computer skills, to include Excel, Word and Outlook, with the aptitude to learn new applications as needed

* Must possess qualities of integrity, discretion and strong ethics

* Ability to conceive, develop and implement new ideas, procedures and processes

* Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally

* Ability to work will with people at different levels within and outside of the company

* Flexibility to travel

Desired Qualifications - Desired but not required.

* Experience in retail industry and/or large transportation company

* Previous transportation work experience with a multi-billion dollar organization

This is not to be considered a complete list of job duties, as they may be amended or added to as needed.

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