Transportation Planner

Your Role: 

As a Transportation Planner, you will optimize the daily load plan and freight tendering for your assigned regions. You will balance customer service requirements for on-time delivery, ensuring carrier compliance while maintaining cost effectiveness. Leveraging systemic routing tools as well as manual shipment planning and load tracking, you will work with carriers across multiple modes of transportation to select and execute the most optimal transport plan from order entry to final delivery. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work with existing team members to identify and provide recommendations for process efficiencies, service improvements, and cost reductions.

 You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen! 

• Monitor site shipment and load queries in the TMS continuously throughout the day. Ensure orders are optimized where possible, mode compliance is reviewed, and capacity is secured in a timely fashion to allow for execution. Gather, document, and communicate reason codes for exceptions. Report out weekly/monthly for your respective responsibilities.
• Partner closely with warehouse teams and carriers to coordinate equipment availability, scheduling, and resolve any shipping constraints
• Identify gaps in transportation capacity, initiate communication with routing guide carriers, and escalate where necessary to ensure capacity is secured. Responsible for executing freight-auction and spot-market decisions when routing guide capacity has been exhausted.
• Daily interaction with carriers to identify and resolve service and capacity issues, escalating with management as necessary. Provide input and feedback into the Carrier Scorecard on a monthly basis. Build and maintain collaborative relationships with RCP partner-carriers.
• Execute responsive transportation support for short lead time shipments, expedite requests, mode conversions, and other unplanned activities.
• Monitor and manage lane and load level costs, including accessorial review and approvals.
• Support the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs), training materials, KPI tracking, project initiatives, and ongoing process improvement efforts. Analyze transportation data to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement. Align with corporate goals (e.g., cost reduction, sustainability, service improvement).

You will love it here if… 

• You put safety first, always.
• You listen, learn, and evolve.
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals.
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity.
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities.

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