Freight Administrator Jobs

The Freight Administrator ensures the integrity of the information in SAP as it pertains to freight. The administrator must maintain a strong working relationship and open communication with carriers, sales teams, logistics/distribution team and plant operations personnel to assist and support the following key activities: A) Maintain carrier rates and fuel surcharge up to date in SAP; B) Manage shipment cost corrections and carrier payment reconciliations; C) Validate and process waiting time and accessorial charges in SAP;  D) Manage the Unbilled report and work with other teams to ensure that month-end targets are maintained.

Safety:

• Promotes a positive safety culture through leadership by example and participation with others to drive the development of safety initiatives within the cement supply chain network.
• Adheres to all Lafarge safety policies and procedures.

Systems & Data Management:

• Ensures the integrity of the information in the system (SAP) as it relates to freight.
• Be involved into processing carrier waiting time and accessorial charges.
• Provide support to carriers with payment disputes and reconciliations.
• This task includes validating and disputing charges when necessary.  
• Provide support by providing SAP information, maintain rates up to date, enter monthly fuel surcharge, PO creation/changes.

Reporting:

• Acts as the main point of contact for Finance in relation to logistics data.
• Communicate and monitor the freight data performance accordingly with the Logistics Transportation team Monitor the unbilled report daily and work with the CVC Supervisor to ensure that all shipments have a freight rate in SAP.
• Provide support with the Open Preload process.
• Oversee the open preload report. Work with carriers and branch plants to ensure preloads are completed in a timely manner.
• Update and maintain the freight KPI’s Dashboard report and work with branch plants, sales team and the CVC, to maintain month-end targets.

Process Improvement:

• Creates and implements continuous performing business data analysis to support decision making process.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, puts actions plans in place, create reports to measure progress and implement follow up tools in relation to on-road carrier performance.

Relationships with Others Jobs: 

• High level of interaction with Sales teams, Transportation Manager, Freight Supervisor and Finance teams.
• High level of interaction with CVC, Terminals and Plants.

Dimensions:

• Geography: Eastern Canada
• Product Lines: Cement

Education and Work Experience:

• Logistics certification preferred.
• Experience with Google Docs, SAP and asset.
• 2 to 3 years of general business or logistics/supply chain experience preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience working and administrating databases.
• Strong sense of teamwork.
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with intermediate levels of management (Directors through end users).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Time management and self-management skills including the ability to redefine priorities based on demand.
• Demonstrate strong skills in problem solving, decision making and multi-tasking.

Job Specific Competency Profile (Lominger)

• Action Oriented
• Process Management
• Time Management
• Problem Solving