Transportation Sr Specialist

Essential Functions: * Leverage and optimize carrier resources to vendor requirements with accountability to on-time service, freight cost, and vendor/carrier relationships. * Develop and exercise relationships with multiple business partners in digital, inventory fulfillment, demand planning, network flow, and freight pay to effectively manage freight flow. * Provides communication and direction to stakeholders regarding seasonal surge planning, carrier capacity commitments, mode selection, and transportation priorities. * Serves as a subject matter expert on all routing software functionality related to transportation and shipment planning. * Manages TMS/JDA Application to maximize efficiency of all shipments to meet and exceed operating goals of cost, service, capacity, carrier and vendor performance. * Leverage and optimize carrier resources to vendor requirements with accountability to on-time service, freight cost, and vendor/carrier relationships. * Develop and exercise relationships with multiple business partners in inventory fulfillment, demand planning, network flow, and freight pay to effectively manage freight flow. * Provides communication and direction to stakeholders regarding seasonal surge planning, carrier capacity commitments, mode selection, and transportation priorities. * Serves as a subject matter expert on all optimization routing software functionality related to transportation and shipment planning. * Manages TMS/JDA Application to maximize efficiency of all shipments to meet and exceed operating goals of cost, service, capacity, carrier and vendor performance. * Initiate, develop, and implement continuous improvement activities as they identify opportunities as a way to improve operating metrics and performance, specifically related to cost, service, and compliance. * Collaborates cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders internal and external to Lowe's. * Develop and present solutions to inventory fulfillment, distribution centers (DCs) and carrier partners to resolve immediate and long term transportation challenges. * Represents Transportation in communication with a wide range of business units and external partners to collaborate on the planning and execution of large scale vendor initiatives. * Negotiates equipment needs and the submission of rates by carriers. * Provides guidance and communication regarding committed volume expectations to each carrier. * Communicates to affected stakeholders when missed or late shipments will impact the on-time arrival of inventory to Lowe's DCs or stores. * Coordinates with Lowe's vendors and carriers to align capacity and freight needs to meet inventory requirements. * Effectively completes projects independently or within a team as well as other work assigned by manager. * Provides allocations to the third party BDC providers allowing them to accurately process customer orders to our XDT network. Minimum Requirements: * High school diploma or GED * 3 years of professional experience in Parcel Transportation, LTL Transportation or Logistics Preferences: * Bachelor's degree in a related field * 1 year of experience with Transportation Routing & Optimization Systems * 1 year of familiarity with transportation cost modeling (Channel Analysis) and enterprise-wide transportation control software Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Created: 2025-01-28