Outbound Transportation Planner

Our values start with our people, join a team that values you!

Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off‑price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high‑quality brands and on‑trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience. As part of our team, you will experience:

• Success. Our winning team pursues excellence while learning and evolving
• Career growth. We develop industry leading talent because Ross grows when our people grow
• Teamwork. We work together to solve the hard problems and find the right solution
• Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.

Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide. With 2025 revenues of $22.8 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams.

Develop and execute the consistent movement of inventory throughout the supply chain at competitive costs within required performance levels. This position must provide a high level of customer service and communicate professionally and accurately to internal and external business partners.

• Develop, execute, monitor and measure all logistics activities associated with the movement of freight throughout the Ross Transportation network, as assigned for specific origins/destinations, providing accurate freight movement at reasonable costs.
• Review and oversight of TMS submission accuracy and revisions.
• Execution of routing activities by processing area, division and region, to support specific inventory levels as defined.
• Track and accountable for on‑time performance metrics in support of a complex transportation network with unique attributes specifically associated with an off‑price retail model.
• Accountable for the movement and arrival of freight within a small “on‑time” delivery window with accuracy.
• Decision making and accountability to achieve in‑transit and in‑yard inventory levels on a daily basis across the complex transportation model. Adapt and adjust routing plans and activities as production plans, inventory levels or performance expectations are modified.
• This daily execution, tracking, and performance management of a complex multi‑modal solution to include combinations of steamship lines, drayage, intermodal providers, dedicated fleets, consolidators, LTL, truckload, etc.
• Proactively develop contingency planning to minimize disruption across the supply chain network.
• Dynamically adjust to successfully manage peak planning activities unique to critical holiday requirements.
• Researching, solving and communicating collaboratively with internal and external customers. Examples include premium brand vendors, sourcing partners, merchants, buying agents, brokers, providers, distribution centers, and loss prevention groups.
• Proactively communicate risks and requires a high level of customer service.
• Provide competitive costs to meet budgetary requirements. Development and implement cost savings and/or service improvement programs generating overall value to the company.
• Responsible for third‑party oversight and accountability to performance levels.
• Set and communicate clear expectations.
• Recommend and elevate internally to adjust from plan, as appropriate, to support required service levels, cost controls and inventory levels.
• Accountable to manage and resolve third‑party performance issues, working with the provider to modify issues in progress to meet required expectations.
• Regularly review and hold carriers accountable for improvements to performance levels.

• Trust
• Influence
• Drives Results
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Decision Quality Problem Solving
• Managing and Measuring Work
• Integrity
• Communic…