Supply Chain Analyst ZFS

Job Summary:

Responsible for overseeing supply chain for ZFS and its affiliate companies by supporting accurate recording and reporting procedures of all business transactions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages customer and supplier contracts.
• Schedules/Dispatches/Coordinates pickups and deliveries with merchandisers, customers, and vendors. Communicates with merchandisers and logistic coordinator on updated changes.
• Continually monitors, prioritizes, and manages load schedule changes and responds in a timely and effective manner.
• Manages inventories at the transloads and customer destinations.
• Reviews previous day trades and completes load scheduling i.e. daily, weekly, and monthly.
• Serves as point of contact for dispatch/scheduling by answering telephone, texts, and emails involving dispatch and scheduling and correctly distributing these to appropriate parties as needed.

• Maintain and update pricing database for daily pricing decisions and analytical analysis of markets. Perform month end contract pricing true ups across all companies.
• Approve freight invoices and verify settlement checks and payments to vendors. Help Process daily invoicing both domestically and internationally.
• Research problems related to contracts, bookings, invoices, and work with customers to resolve open issues.
• Helps manage the railcars flow by: tracking car movements, demurrage, etc.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of all general ledger accounts, reconcile shipped quantities to invoiced sales, open receipts with the settlement payable account, and review open sales and purchase orders.
• Extract system data and organize information into management reports.
• Actively work with customers to ensure accounts are up to date. Aids accounts receivable when discrepancies are identified.
• Support management with planning initiatives through analyses, reports and recommendations.

• Conforms with and abides by all regulations, policies, work procedures, instruction, and all safety requirements.
• Provides a “Customer Service” attitude when interacting with internal and external customers while accomplishing work, production, and achieving quality standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s in Business Administration or related field
• Experience: 3-5 years of logistics, supply chain procurement or forecasting.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Basic knowledge of supply chain, including common obstacles and effective solutions.
• Knowledge of inventory management.
• Excellent customer service and client relations skills.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Ability to enter data and work accurately and efficiently with detailed transactional information.
• Proficiently working with various software programs.
• Ability to maintain good attendance habits.
• Abide by all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description.
• Abide by the company’s safety, quality, environmental, and HR policies at all times.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell.
• Required to stand and walk and occasionally climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Able to climb up and down stairs.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Is occasionally exposed to fumes, or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually very quiet.

This job description reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job identified and shall not necessarily be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship between the employer and employee. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.