Transportation Planner

Job Number: 5678

External Description:

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to develop your supply chain career, then we have a great opportunity for you.  We are seeking a Transportation Planner who is motivated, and a process-oriented individual that will contribute to our supply chain effectiveness from the supplier through the end customer.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Daily transportation planning consolidation and building of outbound shipments via TMS to ensure on-time delivery at lowest reasonable cost.
• Tendering and acceptance of all shipments daily via contracted Truckload, Intermodal, LTL, Small Parcel, and Flatbed transportation providers. 
• Manage daily hot requests to ensure prioritized for planning and transmitted to warehouse to ensure on-time delivery.
• Set delivery appointments to ensure earliest possible delivery based on DC capacity and provider transit time.
• Manage timely and accurate communications (Email, Phone, etc) to internal and external customers. 
• Provide daily shipment plan to Distribution Centers based on forecast and capability.
• Identify and execute continuous improvement opportunities that reduced delivered cost while improving on-time delivery.  
• Provide EOD status report to leadership measuring daily performance as well as opportunities for improvement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 2+ years of experience in transportation or logistics or supply chain or planning.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working directly with Transportation Providers required
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc)
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Passion for servicing customers.  Ability to listen to customer needs and quickly act to solve their problems, go above and beyond to exceed their expectations
• Proven ability to execute with speed and exhibit a bias for action mindset
• Ability to think outside the box, innovate, take risks and implement progressive, sustainable solutions
• Strong ability to build diverse, cross functional project teams to achieve high levels of performance in a dynamic, changing environment
• Must have superior skills with Microsoft Office Excel, Project, Word and PowerPoint

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Job Number: 30149883

Community / Marketing Title: Transportation Planner

Location_formattedLocationLong: Indiana, US