Airfreight Approval & Planning Liaison

Job Summary:

Join Schneider Electric as the NAM Transportation Airfreight Approval Leader! In this pivotal role, you will evaluate and take action to minimize both domestic and international airfreight usage in North America for the NAM Transportation & Customs team.

Key Responsibilities:


* Process referent and owner of Airfreight approval process, accountable to enforce compliance, proper level of information for decision making and correct cost allocation.


* Evaluate tactical requests for airfreight, confirm necessity, and communicate with requestor.


* Identify non-compliant airfreight occurrences, calculate impacts (cost and CO2) and communicate to leadership.


* Analyze open PO's and communicate with Planning personnel on opportunities to reduce upcoming airfreight usage proactively.


* Assess and maintain master data parameters for accurate air and ocean freight cost estimate vs Transit Times for decision making based on data.


* Monthly review with Finance to guarantee correct cost allocation of airfreight to different projects and cost center.


* Collaborate with Planning to define airfreight forecast for the subsequent months and discuss capacity with carriers and freight forwarders.


* Translate forecast into transport handling units, weights, and dimensions.


* Analyze deviations on forecast vs actual utilization and collaborate with planning to improve accuracy.


* Lead and collaborate with International Transport Operations and Procurement to identify and communicate hybrid alternatives to airfreight.


* Develop KPIs to analyze airfreight pareto and key triggers for action.


* Explore, identify, and develop internal tools to simplify overall process and streamline the approval flow.

Key Interfaces:


* Supply Chain Planning - central team


* Manufacturing Upstream Production planning and Shipping teams


* Spot quote team


* Transport Operations team


* Logistics and Global Supply Chain functional leaders (Quality, Supply Chain Planning, Trade, Transport)


* IT Solutions Teams (Master Data, ERP)

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years in Transportation Management, with a strong preference for experience in both domestic and international shipments.

Experience with manufacturing and distribution planning - knowledge of planning tools and fundamentals (forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, MPS, MRP, SIOP).

Proficiency in MS Excel - Minimum level: Advanced (large database crunching, analytical skills to transform raw data into useful information for decision-making, pivot tables, complex formulas and VBA)

Languages: Advanced proficiency in English; fluency in Spanish is a plus.

Skills Required:


* Digital Transformation Leadership: Demonstrated ability to spearhead initiatives that enhance digital capabilities within trans...