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Transportation Manager

1 month ago

Atlanta, United States Alpla Full time

ALPLA is a global family-owned, privately held company that makes innovative, customized, recycled packaging for top companies such as P&G, Unilever, L'Oréal, Pepsi, and more. ALPLA values their employees, work-life balance, personal growth, compensation and sustainability.

 

What Can You Expect From ALPLA

 

  • Health and Wellness Care Program- Benefits 
  • Child Care Benefits
  • Dependent Care Cost Savings Program
  • Recognition programs; Promotional opportunities
  • 401K Retirement Plan and excellent Matching Plan
  • Medical, dental, vision plan
  • Education assistance program/tuition reimbursement
  • Short term, long term and life insurance paid by ALPLA
  • Paid vacation; paid holidays

 

What You Will Enjoy Doing

 

Main Purpose of the Job:

Maintain a high level of service and ensure the most optimized cost for domestic and international freight.

 

Main Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for defining new transport lanes:
    • Work with Sales, business development, procurement, project management departments on new customer project bids for freight and shuttle pricing.
    • Benchmark competitive offers and negotiate terms and prices with all appropriate partners (carriers, 3PL, brokers, Alpla plants in NOAM or beyond, customers).
    • Implement new lanes in full alignment with Sales and the Alpla shipping plant teams - provide all details, documentation, and necessary instructions.
  • Train and support appropriate members of plant teams, TC, and project managers:
    • Provide training and instructions for all users, so that they can schedule, track, and control freight.
    • Facilitate communication between our partners to understand the business complexity and help to build the most efficient organization.
  • Regularly review the service quality with the Alpla teams and our partners.
    • Assist in resolving issues (incl. damage / package & equipment with insurance companies), build and follow action plans.
  • Manage transport tracking (incl. status report and ETA for import/export), cost control, billing process, and quote requests.
    Assure training and supervision of the associate team members, evaluate workload and resources (incl. knowledge and tools) to improve efficiency of the work of the team.
  • Provide reporting on performance (carriers, 3pl, brokers) to the Senior Regional Logistics Manager and manufacturing directors, keep close control of actual cost vs budget cost for freight.
    Stay updated about freight market trends and proactively suggest new options, tools, or other ideas to improve performance (incl. environmental impact) and benefits.
  • Domestic freight management, procedures, billing and tenders.
  • Assure compliance to regulation (customs tariff codes, paperwork for domestic and international freight, freight procedures)
  • Maintain database for the list of carriers and contact, and lane pricing for US plants and major city to city pricing.
    Seek for and evaluate new partners.
  • Collaborate with the Senior Regional Logistics team to improve process efficiency related to freight management.
  • External Warehousing transportation
    • Assist plant teams with sourcing external warehouses as needed , loading/unloading fork fees, and shuttle cost.
      Control bills, audit performance and track cost deviation to budget.

What Makes You Great

 

Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Transportation/Operations or related fields or 5 years equivalent education/work experience
  • Customs training certification or related education/work experience

 

Qualifications/Skills:

  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiations skills
  • Strong organizational skills and figures focused
  • Good geographical knowledge and an understanding of Incoterms
  • Sound knowledge of sea, air and road transportation for both import and exports as well as international transport documentation requirement
  • Ability to train, coach and supervise associates with positive mindset so that they can growth inside the organization
  • Problem solving skills
  • MS Office (advanced level at MS Excel)
  • General knowledge and understanding of ERP and TMS systems

Physical Demands

 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job the employee is:

  • Frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear
  • Occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually low


It is required to act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times by adhering to all ALPLA policies and procedures and Safety Standards (OSHA). #salaried #SVC

 

ALPLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: ALPLA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at ALPLA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. ALPLA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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