What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Logistics Specialist position at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits?
Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and are included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
At Southern Glazer’s, you’ll enjoy an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported and experience a culture where you are respected and your voice is heard. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.
Overview
Overview
The Logistics Specialist will actively participate in a team that handles a variety of logistics functions, which include transportation planning and strategy, expediting, negotiating, and coordinating the purchase of logistics/transportation needs for our product from origin warehouses for our suppliers and subsidiaries into our SGWS Destinations. The Logistics Specialist will work closely with the Logistics Manager to ensure critical KPIs are being met.
This role will be specialized to manage the domestic freight. This role executes service trending analysis to drive continuous improvement initiatives with our freight partners. This role must also proactively identify, solve, and communicate import network changes and service disruptions to ensure timely transportation execution. Through domestic market knowledge, the Logistics Specialist will be SGWS’s subject matter expert on domestic service initiatives and on-time performance and help identify additional growth opportunities across the organization. Business competencies in intermodal, OTR, drayage management and customs clearance are required.
Duties and Responsibilities
- This role coordinates with suppliers, carriers, and TMS teams for accuracy, availability, and order specifications to ensure that all goods and materials are delivered on-site on time.
- Assure that accurate logistic data elements are in place to ensure freight is moving on time.
- Ability to prepare and analyze spreadsheets for upload to our transportation management system.
- Evaluate/process escalations and other issues as needed to work with the teams to resolve logistical issues with sharp problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Responsible for preparing and conducting QBR with assigned carriers.
- Update and communicate requested ship dates and delivery dates in TMS and SAP per SOP.
- Review of open orders daily and backlog, update track and trace reporting for availability
- Preparation of reports and presentations
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 3-5 years of Logistics Experience in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills with the ability to find creative solutions to problems. Functional knowledge of pivot tables and Excel function
- Must completely understand Microsoft Excel and the other Office Suite software programs.
- Candidate must possess knowledge of logistics and warehouse processes.
Knowledge of:
- Drayage network
- Over the Road Dispatching
- Intermodal Transportation
Preferred Qualifications
- Above Intermediate experience with and proficiency in MS Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail and minimal supervision.
- Familiarity with rate structure and invoice processing.
- Customer service experience with the ability to work across diverse organizations.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written).
- Team player, energetic, motivated.
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state, and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.
About Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits:
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is the largest distributor of beverage alcohol in North America, and proud to be a multi-generational, family-owned company. Southern Glazer’s has a proud history of consistently delivering impeccable service in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, Canada and the Caribbean. It’s all made possible by our employees. Our careers focus on delivering a captivating and rewarding experience. Challenging our colleagues every step of the way, we provide the tools for them to grow, succeed and accomplish both their personal and professional goals. Together, we can deliver the highest quality service for our suppliers and our customers while we put you on the career path you’ve been looking for.Southern Glazer’s is nationally recognized by its supplier partners as well as by its customers for its state-of-the-art distribution capabilities and its leading-edge information technology. We also believe in the importance of giving back, being a socially responsible corporate citizen and making generous contributions to national, state and local charitable organizations.
