Logistics Administrator: IV (Lead)

Transportation Logistics Specialist

Contract Length: 6 months Location: Lincoln, NE Monday - Friday onsite - 8am-5pm Potential overtime during harvest season, so must be open to working some OT hours There will be two rounds of interviews! 1st round will be with the Hiring Manager (Curt), and 2nd round will be a panel with 2-3 team members that are TBD. The Transportation Logistics Specialist will perform activities that ensure efficient truck transportation of materials and products from origin to destination for the Ag and Energy Platforms. We seek a professional who will participate in identifying and selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective truck transportation. This position will also provide stakeholders in the product lines with accurate and market-based freight pricing and ensure that accurate freight rates are loaded in appropriate rating systems. Additionally, they will build a firm understanding of freight markets within the position's scope of responsibility and use this understanding to communicate market insights, context, and knowledge to stakeholders within **. Likewise, the Transportation Logistics Specialist will work to improve organizational understanding of customer and plant specific shipping requirements across multiple product lines and assist in effectively managing to these requirements and communicating them to our third-party truck carriers. Essential Responsibilities: Support **'s enterprise transportation carrier management strategy through rate negotiations, relationship management, capacity management, shipment execution, truck carrier segmentation and overall spend management. Negotiate rates with carriers, maximize load pairing (backhauls) and value creation across product lines in a collaborative manner with other ** transportation team members. Independently analyze current transportation operations practices to resolve process and cost improvement opportunities. You will work under general supervision and independently solve issues. Negotiate rates and contract terms, ensuring rates paid for transportation services are competitive and executed in the best interest of ** (one ** voice to truck carriers). Serve as subject matter expert on transportation markets and rates. Ensure that all third-party transportation relationships are profitable and accretive to business unit earnings. Other duties as assigned Systems and Data: Monitor carrier performance/KPI's and take corrective action to reverse negative trends and maintain required service levels to meet both ** and customer expectations. Update TMS (Master Mind), internal documents/spreadsheets, databases and systems for contracts, freight rates, and volume estimates, customer information and resolve any truck freight invoice issues to ensure accurate payments to third party truck carriers. Nice to have: Grain commodity trading experience