Description:
Who We Are:
We were founded in 2007 after realizing you couldn't find a product quite like ours in the marketplace. Our original vision was to create a ruffled bloomer for babies but over the past 15 years, we have grown into a full-scale girls and boys apparel brand with a wide variety of high-quality options at an affordable price. We are a team of hard workers who have grown from our Founder's basement into a multi-million dollar company with customers all over the world! Our products can be found online and in thousands of retail locations around the globe, including Nordstrom, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Target+. We've invested heavily in our business technology solutions ensuring we're well positioned to compete, thrive and continue to grow. With millions of units sold to-date we're excited to continue our acceleration! Could you be the next rockstar on our team?
What We're Looking For:
RuffleButts is looking to hire an experienced Global Logistics Planner to join our team. We are seeking a team member who can develop, implement, and monitor logistics plans to ensure the efficient transportation of goods.
Job Description Summary
- The Global Logistics Planner drives the logistical performance through the effective management of carrier partnerships, freight movement activities, and logistical analyses.
- The Global Logistics Planner is accountable for managing all domestic trucking and ocean shipping carrier partnerships ensuring the best cost and service.
- Manage all global and domestic inbound freight movement operations that satisfy timelines, costing, and service level expectations.
- Ensure relationships with carrier partners are robust, meaningful, and effective to achieve high levels of organizational support to supply chain excellence.
- Negotiate with carriers, brokers and freight forwarders to ensure the organization receives the best cost.
- Work with service providers/vendors to satisfy day-to-day needs relating to service level requirements, billing/auditing, inquiries, or project coordination.
- Provide support for rate quotations and project movements, while also maintaining a file for all pricing requests.
- Coordinate regularly with the merchandising team on special launches to ensure freight services support organization objectives.
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency improvements across the supply chain and implement strategies to achieve these goals.
- Assess and mitigate supply chain risks, including distributions, delays, and quality issues, to ensure continuity of operations.
- Utilize data analytics to monitor supply chain performance, generate reports, and provide insights for decision-making.
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations, company policies, and ethical standards in all supply chain activities.
- Track shipment movement and inventory flow to satisfy merchandise movement service requirements.
- Monitor processes and procedures to ensure that all shipping and documentation activities are fully compliant with regulatory and governmental requirements.
- Manage, maintain, and communicate sailing schedules.
- Provide analysis to freight or depot activity supporting performance metrics, contract negotiations, and service levels.
- Identification and implementation of process improvements that have a positive effect on efficiencies, cost containment, or service levels.
- Monitor and control freight expenses to satisfy budget goals and unit costs.
- Manage analysis that provides direction to freight and depot burden tables.
- Manage all global and domestics inbound freight movement, maintaining a high level of expertise in all areas.
- Adhere to all domestic and international shipping regulations.
- Collaborate with the Merchandising during new sourcing ventures so that all import/export rules, procedures, and costs are understood for each destination market.
- Manage a network import brokers and global freight forwarders.
- Partner with the DC manager on upcoming shipments to coordinate best times of delivery in advance.
- Partner with the DC Manager to create inbound checklists and protocols to successfully hold each point of transportation accountable.
- Establish and maintain freight forwarder scorecards along with costing to ensure we are not only receiving the best costing, but upholding SLAs.
Requirements:
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in retail logistics, supply chain management, or a related field, with a focus on international and domestic shipping.
- Detail-oriented with a strong background in logistics, international and domestic shipping, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate across multiple departments to ensure operational efficiency and financial accuracy.
- Experience with ocean carrier contracts or experience negotiating high-value agreements.
- Strong understanding of logistics, freight forwarding, and customs processes.
- In-depth knowledge of federal regulations and compliance requirements for importing goods into the US.
- In-depth knowledge of federal regulations and compliance requirements for importing goods into the US.
- Required Experience with domestic truckload managing FTL, LTL and parcel.
- Proficient with different types of containers used in ocean shipping and cube/weight capacity.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to interact with internal teams, suppliers, and freight forwarders
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
- The ability to quickly learn and adapt to new computer systems
- Able to perform at a high level in both individual and team settings
- Self-motivated to work quickly and efficiently managing all deadlines and targets within time limits
What's in it for You:
For the right candidate we are willing to offer competitive base compensation, paid vacation / holidays, health and dental benefits, 401k + match, casual work environment and the potential for rapid growth / responsibility within our company.
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