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!

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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
• Extensi…