Transportation Specialist

About the role

AJC International, a global leader in frozen and refrigerated food products, is looking for a Transportation Specialist. The role covers the daily interface between internal customers and vendors, working with all functional departments of AJC and with external transportation vendors. The ideal candidate has business acumen, knowledge of the transportation industry and is a creative problem solver.

Key responsibilities

• Interact with surface transportation vendors, manage trucking capacity and assign them to loads
• Work with Operations and Sales to set timelines for future shipments based on booked business
• Identify the best routing for shipments according to product readiness, freezer appointments, trucking and ocean carrier availability
• Handle daily tactical issues with internal customers and vendors
• Spot process improvement opportunities and propose ways to implement them
• Match core business and key destinations with each vendor
• Handle rate requests, negotiations and management with ocean carriers, rail, trucking and drayage companies

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Ideally 1-2 years of experience in ocean transportation
• Knowledge of refrigerated transportation preferred
• Fluent reading, writing and speaking of English, tested in the interview
• Proactive, positive, energetic and able to work under pressure

Required skills

• Exceptional organization and high attention to detail
• Strong sense of urgency, results-driven, able to multitask and prioritize
• Clear verbal and written communication, independent and collaborative work
• Quick learner
• Advanced skills in MS Outlook, Excel and Oracle