TMS Configuration Engineer

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!
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About the Job
Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At World Courier (a Cencora company), we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!
This role will sit within the Global Data and Technology Solutions (GDATs) organization in World Courier and is a key member of the TMS product team. We're re-imagining IT - not as a support function, but as a strategic partner to the World Courier business.
We exist to help the organisation rise, adapt, and grow, using technology that is innovative, integrated, reliable, secure and designed around real operational needs.
The TMS Configuration Engineer is key to ensuring that our most widely used application keeps our business running!
Why this role matters
As a TMS Configuration Engineer, you ensure our Transportation Management System - the digital heartbeat of our operations - is ready for the complexities of global specialty logistics for the pharmaceutical industry. By optimizing our TMS platform, you directly impact our ability to uphold the highest standards of service and pharmaceutical integrity. You aren't just configuring software; you're building the pathways that allow medicine to save lives.
What you'll do
Lead Infios configuration delivery

• Design, build, and optimize Infios TMS configurations including workflows, rules, master data structures, and rate logic to support global specialty logistics.

• Performunit testingand peer reviews of configuration changes (e.g., rules, workflows, rates, master data impacts), ensuring expected behavior across core logistics scenarios while maintaining consistency with standards, performance considerations, and maintainability.

• Facilitate meetings and give product demonstrations.

Promote safe, repeatable deployments

• Plan and executeconfiguration migrations between environments(e.g., dev/test/staging/prod) using established tools and processes, validating completeness, dependencies, and version alignment.

Integration confidence

• Partner with integration teams and vendors to support TMS connectivity and data flows (EDI/API/file-based), ensuring configurations align with mapping, events, statuses, and orchestration across systems.

Translate needs into configuration-first solutions

• Work closely with other teams to turn business requirements into scalable Infios design patterns (configuration over customization where possible).

• Contribute to configuration standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and governance that increase delivery speed without sacrificing quality.

What we're looking for
You'll thrive in our team if you:

• Arepatient-centricand understand that a small system issue can have real-world consequences for treatment timing.

• Love solving complex puzzles with deep, detailed work in a fast-moving environment and can navigate ambiguity with structure, calm, and follow-through.

• Enjoy being the "translator" between technical and non-technical partners - friendly, approachable, and clear-while being comfortable influencing without authority.

• Bring a "quality-first" mindset and take pride in unit testing, review discipline, and clean migrations.

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency with exceptional time management skills

Experience that will help you succeed:

• Deep Infios expertise

• Proven, hands-on experience configuring Infios TMS, CARMA, and related products including integrations and data flows

• Strong understanding of transportation execution concepts (shipment lifecycle events, exceptions, milestones, service levels, carrier/service configuration, rates).

• Proven ability tomigrate configurations across environmentsreliably (including dependency management, version control/release packaging, and validation).

• Excellent communication skills - able to translate between "user" and "developer" with clarity and empathy.

• Helpful to have

• Experience in specialty logistics, cold-chain, clinical trials, or other time-critical, high-service networks.

• Familiarity with change control practices and documentation expectations in regulated or highly governed environments.

• Comfort with data validation and analysis (e.g., structured files such as CSV/XML/JSON/EDI).

What success looks like in this role

• TMS configurationreleases are stable, predictable, and support global operational complexity without constant rework.

• Operational teams feelfewer manual workarounds, have clearer workflows, and experience faster exception resolution

• Measurable gains in application reliability, on-time outcomes, and end-to-end shipment visibility and data quality.

Additional Job Description
Why join World Courier GDATS?
You'll have the opportunity to:

• Play a key role in a re-imagined IT function

• Work with smart, committed people who care about doing the right thing

• Shape a modern, people-centered, visible, high-impact support function

• Make a real difference to how people experience technology every day

• Work in a purpose-driven business that makes a difference to people's lives, delivering essential pharma logistics services

How you'll be working

• This role operates within a global, matrixed IT organisation, working closely with Design, Product, Engineering, Delivery, QA and business stakeholders.

• Collaboration across time zones and regions is required

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements apply in line with World Courier policies

• Some nights and weekends will be required for deployments.

• Travel up to 15%.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field. Or equivalent work experience. Typically requires 8 or more years of application programming and analysis experience.
Has a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards. Experience in leading projects. Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions. Experience designing, developing and testing applications using proven or emerging technologies, in a variety of technologies and environments
MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Advanced programming skills in several programming languages
• Advanced understanding of relational database design and theory
• Ability to translate complicated business requirements into multiple solution options and explain the pros/cons of various approaches
• Advanced knowledge of Object-Orient Design Patterns and use cases for applying them
• Proficient communication skills and experience in mentoring/leading junior developers
• Technical experience with systems networking, databases, development, and user support.
• Good background in Data Base design (e.g. Microsoft SQL and Access)
• Exposure to servers technology (e.g. IBM Power 8) would be helpful to assist with integration
• Experience with WMS application (e.g. Inbound, Outbound, Pick pack and ship processes) preferred but not required.

What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
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