Freight Planner

The Freight Planner develops and maintains daily and weekly shipment plans across assigned Wintec programs and warehouse locations. The role obtains freight quotations and independently weighs cost, service capability, broker reliability, transit time, and urgency to select and award each shipment to an approved broker within delegated commercial and operating limits. The role monitors shipment-planning exceptions, adjusts routine plans, and provides clear handoffs to Logistics, warehouses/3PLs, and Program Management.

Produce accurate and timely shipment plans; obtain and evaluate freight quotations; exercise sound commercial and operating judgment when awarding shipments among approved brokers; and promptly replan or elevate freight exceptions. Maintain documented award rationale, reliable shipment records, and effective execution handoffs.

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly shipment plans using, order priorities, inventory availability, warehouse readiness, requested delivery dates, and approved operating rules.
• Sequence shipments according to established priorities and identify conflicts requiring a customer-commitment decision or management escalation.
• Maintain a current planning record and provide clear handoffs to Logistics, warehouse/3PL, and other execution teams.

• Monitor planned shipment milestones and replan when shortages, warehouse delays, missed pickups, urgent orders, delivery-window changes, or carrier constraints affect the plan.
• Assess routine shipment exceptions and independently adjust plans within established service commitments and delegated limits; communicate revised timing, risks, and required actions to stakeholders.
• Escalate material premium-freight exposure, exceptions to contractual or approval limits, material customer-commitment tradeoffs, significant security or compliance concerns, and decisions requiring new policy or risk acceptance.

• Maintain accurate freight schedules, planning inputs, shipment priorities, and exception status in the designated systems and planning tools.
• Track plan-versus-actual performance, quotation turnaround, broker-award records, and common reasons for replanning; report recurring issues and recommend practical improvements.
• Provide concise shipment and freight-award updates identifying execution risks, unresolved dependencies, and decisions needed from other owners.

• Obtain and compare freight quotations from approved brokers. Independently balance total cost, transit time, service capability, historical reliability, capacity, cargo requirements, and urgency rather than automatically selecting the lowest quote. Decide and document which approved broker receives each shipment award within approved spending limits, service commitments, and operating guidelines; communicate the award to Logistics or other parties executing the booking.
• Maintain complete quotations, comparative analysis, award rationale, and decision records. Recommend improvements to existing freight-planning and broker-selection workflows; do not independently qualify new brokers, negotiate master contracts, establish transportation policy, or change approval thresholds.
• Logistics teams, brokers, carriers, and warehouses/3PLs execute bookings, transportation, and shipment transactions. Program/customer owners decide material changes to customer commitments and program-priority tradeoffs. The functional manager owns broker approval and qualification, contracts, policy, material commercial exceptions, and risk acceptance beyond delegated authority.

• Relevant education or equivalent practical experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or operations.
• 2+ years of experience in freight coordination, transportation planning, logistics scheduling, brokerage operations, or related shipment execution support.
• Working knowledge of freight quotations, transportation service levels, broker reliability, transit time, cargo constraints, shipment scheduling, and routine exception handling.
• Proficiency in Excel and ability to maintain accurate records in ERP, TMS, WMS, or similar supply-chain systems.
• Ability to independently evaluate and explain cost-versus-service tradeoffs among approved brokers, apply delegated commercial limits, document awards, and elevate material exceptions.

• Experience in electronics, contract…