Transportation Analyst

3 weeks ago


East St Louis, United States Sensient Technologies Full time
Job Description

At Sensient Technologies, we are experts in science, art, and innovation of color and flavor. We are market savvy and visionary. We are problem solvers and we will be better with you.

We are adding an experienced Transportation Analyst to our St. Louis team. This exciting role will work within cross-functional departments such as logistics/inventory control, sourcing, planning, and customer service. This is a developmental leadership role that will be expected to continuously learn and improve system and process functionality in each assigned department. Typical expectations after learning incumbent role would be process development, documentation, and improvement focused on our two primary metrics of on-time delivery and customer responsiveness.

What You'll do:
  • This position directs the daily load for the shipping department in order to fulfill customer orders on time. This role coordinates logistical partners, carriers, and distribution center requirements on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. This role analyzes opportunities for cost improvement by conducting carrier RFPs, optimizing transportation lanes, and continuous improvement of internal and external processes, costs, and performance.
  • Route and build shipments, within established guidelines, to ensure consolidation, cost effectiveness, and timely service for customer satisfaction. Interacts with customer service, planning and other departments as needed, regarding exceptions to the customer order fulfillment process, shipping capacity constraints, and ability to accommodate order changes. Ensures that the Traffic Office is processing orders and that shipments are moving on time.
  • Ensures through daily reviews of open order reports that all pick, pack, and ship activities are completed through to 'ship confirmation' by the end of the workday.
  • Review and verify all outbound shipments. Ensure shipping is cost effective through annual RFP/RFQ process. Investigate issues on shipments and assist with resolving customer inquiries.
  • Communicate regularly with shipping floor, warehouse personnel, traffic office, planners and customer service, to discuss schedule feasibility, floor lead times, mode lead times, product availability and other situations that impact the customer order fulfillment process
  • Route, build, consolidate and configure shipments within established guidelines to ensure timely service and cost effectiveness.
What You'll bring:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience such as 10+ years in relevant industry or APICS certification.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other Supply Chain roles to integrate process, and process hand-offs with responsibilities of shipping to execute continuous improvement of on-time delivery, customer inquiries, and cost proactively and regularly
  • Ability to manage batch reservation program & manual reservation of inventory to customer orders within established lead times.
  • Experience prioritizing and advising on workload for shipping personnel, along with maintaining proper lead-time of physical picks. Developing consistent working relationship and interaction with shipping peers is vital
  • Ability to ensure outbound carrier scheduling to service customer's requirements while keeping costs contained/competitive according to established transportation guidelines
What You'll get:
  • An opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite 5-days per week.
  • An excellent salary, benefit offering and development opportunities.
  • A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond.

About Sensient: Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.

About Sensient Colors: Sensient Colors is a leading developer, producer, and supplier of natural and synthetic color systems for customers around the globe. The Company's high-performance products play a vital role in the manufacture of foods and beverages, cosmetic and pharmaceutical colors and coatings, and colors for agricultural uses, household cleaners and paper products.

SPONSORSHIP: Due to our inability to offer visa sponsorship, we can only consider candidates who are authorized to work in (country) without the need for employment visa sponsorship.

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