Transportation Planner

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day.

Join us and we can make a difference together.

The Transportation Planner is responsible for coordinating daily shipments, maintaining Salesforce system and overseeing accessorial approval.

• Primary resource for Salesforce & Accessorial Administration
• Daily transportation planning consolidation and building of outbound shipments via TMS to ensure on-time delivery at lowest reasonable cost.
• Tendering and acceptance of all shipments daily via contracted Truckload, Intermodal, LTL, Small Parcel, and Flatbed transportation providers.
• Manage daily hot requests to ensure prioritized for planning and transmitted to warehouse to ensure on-time delivery.
• Set delivery appointments to ensure earliest possible delivery based on DC capacity and provider transit time.
• Manage timely and accurate communications (Email, Phone, etc) to internal and external customers.
• Provide daily shipment plan to Distribution Centers based on forecast and capability.
• Identify and execute continuous improvement opportunities that reduced delivered cost while improving on-time delivery.
• Provide EOD status report to leadership measuring daily performance as well as opportunities for improvement. Highly efficient project management abilities and the ability to balance multiple projects

• High School Diploma
• 1+ years direct transportation planning experience

• Bachelors degree preferred
• 2+ years Transportation/Logistics Experience
• Experience working directly with Transportation Providers required
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc)

• Passion for servicing customers. Ability to listen to customer needs and quickly act to solve their problems, go above and beyond to exceed their expectations

• Proven ability to execute with speed and exhibit a bias for action mindset

• Ability to think outside the box, innovate, take risks and implement progressive, sustainable solutions
• Strong ability to build diverse, cross functional project teams to achieve high levels of performance in a dynamic, changing environment

• Must have superior skills with Microsoft Office Excel, Project, Word and Power Point