Logistics Manager

Our client has the most well-trained and productive team of traders in the industry. Combining experience, long-term supplier and customer relationships, and leading-edge technology allows them to serve the largest retail lumber yards, home centers, and manufacturers across the country. This level of expertise and unmatched customer service has had their trading partners relying on them for 30 years.

Logistics Manager
The Logistics Manager will be a part of our client’s 4-person logistics team that puts wheels under 10,000 truckloads of building products annually. This individual is a critical player in the Company’s profit proposition and in making-good on their trade commitments.

Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate logistics operations and dispatch team
• Negotiate freight rates with carriers and brokers — transactional and contractual
• Maintain existing carrier/broker relationships and prospect, as necessary, for new potential transportation providers.
• Strategize best practices on bookings, incorporating technology for efficiency.
• Ensure scheduled shipments are in compliance with interstate trucking laws, regulation and company policy.
• Solve shipping/logistics problems and/or claims as they arise, including investigating shipper or consignee complaints relating to lost or damaged product and/or shortages in shipment.
• Quote freight rates to members on the trading floor.
• Handle all communication for dispatching all truck shipments in response to the available loads each day as well as follow up with carriers/brokers for pick-up and delivery.

Experience:

• Associates degree with a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and exceptional accuracy.
• Basic math and Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Extensive claims experience.
• Experience with brokering high volumes of full truckloads from multiple origins to multiple destinations.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Management or team leadership experience.
• Ability to collect data, identify and define problems and create effective solutions.
• Background in lumber or construction industry a plus. Understanding of invoicing/inventory management also a plus.

This position offers a competitive base salary.

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