- Competitive Compensation
- Health, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance (Comprehensive healthcare benefits package, with many coverage options at a very low employee cost)
- 401K (generous retirement benefits) with a Company Match
- Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off
Summary: Utilize transportation management system (TMS) to coordinate and plan inbound, outbound, direct-ship, and backhaul shipments. Assure all loads are tendered in a timely manner so that all purchase and sales orders will be delivered. Resolve and/or escalate when orders are not confirmed as tendered. Coordinate with Purchasing, Operations, and Accounting teams to ensure purchase orders are moving through the system during creation, change, receipt, and settlement. Monitor data concerning routing locations, carrier rates, vendor allowances, etc.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the transportation activities to and from vendor, branch, or customer.
- Ensure managed orders are tendered to carriers in a timely manner; Coordinate and negotiate rates with carriers when routed orders are not confirmed; and, Retender managed orders when carriers reject or do not respond to loads.
- Directly responsible to ensure data integrity throughout TMS.
- Analyze and propose ideal shipping methods, routing or carriers to meet necessary parameters, specifications and costs.
- Analyze and update current and possible lanes for bid to carriers.
- Analyze the backhaul capabilities of the existing company fleet, and coordinate the efforts of the buyers, suppliers, and operations managers without disturbing service to customers.
- Audit invoices by generating documents for TMS carrier invoicing to accounting; to bill the company at the existing freight rate
- Create reports and metrics to Supervisor and Management related to the TMS program.
- Negotiate rates and service commitments with carriers, in order to assure the best possible service at the most reasonable rates.
- Analyze and develop an understanding of buying patterns to analyze vendors and recommend consolidations of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments, from multiple suppliers to full truckload shipments.
Qualifications:
- Prior Logistics and Dispatch work experience, minimum 2-5 years is a must.
- Must have basic knowledge concerning Supply Chain and Logistics.
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from accredited college or university strongly preferred, but not required and/or combination of education and experience
- Organized, detailed and result oriented, able to take on additional responsibilities.
- Time and project management skills a plus.
- Self-starter, takes initiative, with ability to work well as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret key performance indictors (KPI) reports and technical data spreadsheets.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to calculate rebates, cost-savings, and cost of goods sold, etc., using concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Must have basic computer experience with Windows, including Outlook, Excel, and Word, as well as internet applications. Prior experience with TMS systems is a plus.
BakeMark is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at BakeMark via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written agreement in place for this position from BakeMark HR/Recruitment will be deemed the sole property of BakeMark. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BakeMark as a result of the referral or through other means.
BakeMark is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment, in accordance with the requirements of all applicable state and federal laws, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, age or any other basis prohibited by law.
Skills Required
- Minimum 2-5 years of logistics and dispatch work experience
- Basic knowledge of supply chain and logistics
- Associate's or bachelor's degree in Business Administration, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Organization, attention to detail, and results orientation
- Ability to take on additional responsibilities
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret KPI reports and technical data spreadsheets
- Ability to apply probability, statistical inference, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical calculations
- Ability to calculate rebates, cost savings, and cost of goods sold
- Basic computer experience with Windows, Outlook, Excel, Word, and internet applications
- Prior experience with transportation management systems
- Time and project management skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Self-starter who takes initiative
What We Do
BakeMark is a bakery manufacturer and distributor serving professional baking and food businesses across the United States and Canada. The company supplies bakery ingredients, frozen solutions, products, and supplies, supported by manufacturing, distribution, research and development, technical assistance, and customer service. Founded in 1892, BakeMark focuses on helping bakery customers grow while creating value throughout the baking and food industry.
