Traffic Coordinator

Join our Logistics & Distribution Team at Helen of Troy as our Traffic Coordinator and make an immediate impact on our trusted brands, including our 8 leadership brands: OXO, Hydro Flask, Vicks, Braun, Honeywell, PUR, Hot Tools, Drybar. Together, we build innovative and useful products that elevate people's lives everywhere every day!

In your kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom. We are already making your everyday lives better. We are powered by knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking people committed to developing a culture of inclusion. Whether you are just starting your career or in need of a challenge, we recognize, develop, and empower talent!

You will manage all outbound freights and compare rates to minimize freight cost. You will monitor shipments from origin to destination to ensure on-time delivery. In this role you will review customer profiles and guidelines.

• Reviews and becomes familiar with all customer profiles to ensure they are up-to-date and in compliance with all requirements
• Compares rates and selects delivery/transportation methods to minimize cost and maximize customer satisfaction
• Develops and maintains transportation procedures to maximize delivery efficiency
• Monitors shipments from origin to destination and ensures on-time delivery
• Monitors non-compliance fees to ensure products are shipped according to the customer's guidelines
• Manages the EDI Operations report and ensures that all customers are thoroughly reviewed prior to shipping
• Ensures that all shipments meet the customers' requirements and are within the guidelines
• Plans shipments on a daily basis
• Allocates all orders through the Transportation Management system prior to shipping
• Ensures the correct transportation methods are used and consolidates freights across the board
• Works closely with Operations/Customer Service to balance the workload
• Responsible for the daily analysis and scheduling of all pending outbound orders and trip building/consolidation of orders to ensure we are maximizing the savings on freight
• Reviews across all organizations on opportunities to consolidate orders that drop as small package and less than truckload shipments into truckload size shipments, to reduce freight costs
• Reviews and troubleshoots any exception orders
• Coordinates and processes all orders that drop to the warehouse on a daily basis before handing off to the planning team
• Reviews current orders to see if consolidation is available across organizations
• Works closely with the operations team and planning for effective ways to process and load orders
• Communicates with supervisors and other key personnel between shifts, as well as, within shifts
• Supports other shifts, departmental managers and supervisors, as needed
• Performs other duties as assigned

• High School Diploma or 1-2 years of experience required
• General knowledge of warehouse management systems and inventory control practice
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
• Knowledge of current rate base and FSC and utilize current rates to determine the best carrier service wise along with cost for that particular lane

• Ability to negotiate rates on daily shipments, as needed
• Ability to derive and utilize mathematical models
  
  Ability to recognize and differentiate on what services to use in shipping outbound shipments
• Ability to mathematically calculate cubic feet in order to meet daily, weekly, and monthly distribution plan goals
• Extensive knowledge of cubic feet to optimize the use of trailers
• Knowledge of weight breaks and different modes of transportation
• Extensive knowledge of TMS applications
• Extensive…