Carrier Specialist Chesapeake, VA

Carrier Specialist job at Family Dollar. Chesapeake, VA.

• To support and maintain carrier relationships to ensure successful negotiation and consumption of carrier services, providing the lowest landed cost of North American goods to an exceptional service standard
• Represent the inbound transportation team to the larger organization to ensure optimal collaboration to support new and evolving vendor programs, sales goals and budget fluctuations
• Work closely with the DC Management, Outbound Transportation Operations, Replenishment and Buying staff, Carriers and the Inbound functional teams to optimize inbound transportation

• Effectively communicate and implement all domestic inbound transportation programs, procedures and policies as negotiated with carriers
• Collaborate with the buying staff to support negotiation of favorable freight terms with suppliers
• Utilize available data and information to creatively solution and recommend inbound transportation strategies to improve cost and service levels
• Facilitate and implement programs with buyers and vendors
• Execute reports to evaluate and continually improve the performance of the inbound carrier base by assessing and managing each carrier’s overall support of Dollar Tree
• Continuously research emerging and existing supply chain strategies for incorporation into current FD carrier consumption processes
• Participate in budget development and budget reporting, to include the monthly P&L
• Collaborate with finance determine project ROI’s and budget; ensuring carrier and merchant activities occur within the bounds of the annual and monthly budget
• Support operational disaster recovery to ensure business continuity
• Represent transportation relations in business meetings
• Organize and prioritize workload and tasks to ensure proper flow of information
• Complete other various assignments, as required

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in business, logistics or finance is preferred; or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of transportation experience
• Working knowledge of LTL, truckload and intermodal operations, third party dedicated fleet management, industry contracts and vernacular
• Extensive computer skills, to include Excel, Word and Outlook, Power BI, Microsoft Access with the aptitude to learn new applications as needed
• Must possess qualities of integrity, discretion and strong ethics
• Ability to conceive, develop and implement new ideas, procedures and processes
• Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally
• Ability to work will with people at different levels within and outside of the company
• Flexibility to travel

• Experience in retail industry and/or large transportation company
• Previous transportation work experience with a multi-billion dollar organization

This is not to be considered a complete list of job duties, as they may be amended or added to as needed.