Full-Time: Extendable contract offered by HR Partner (Metabyte)
Job Description
Immediately Hiring!
Are you ready to take your logistics and transportation career up a notch? We are looking for a stellar Logistics Operations Manager to join our team at Samsung SDS in Plano, TX to help step up the supply chain operations. If you're a self-starter and able to run a team, then we want to hear from you!
Samsung SDS needs a Bilingual Logistics Operations Manager with great multitasking skills to take charge of warehouse shipping operations. You will be responsible for ensuring great international operations, warehouse efficiency and communicating with trade partners. Extensive knowledge with International Shipping Logistics Cost Analysis is preferred.
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Responsibilities for Logistics Operations Manager
- Identify various risks that can occur at the time of concluding a contract or business execution and establish alternatives to hedge them
- Resolve issues through close relationships with shipping company, airline, and execution companies (such as rail companies, trucking/drayage companies, port terminals) and secure favorable transportation resources and fares compared to competitors. This includes monitoring delivery progress from mainly ocean shipping vessels (aircrafts as well) to final delivery destinations
- Making simple tools to manage regular shipment monitoring status and report to upper management, customers, and HQ
- Analyze data to find out the pending issues in terms of seamless movement and share with related parties to resolve the issues
- Establish a plan for innovation tasks in regions/bases, check logistics costs, and discover cost reduction tasks
- Identify pending operational issues in regions/bases to establish solutions, and take the lead for establishing business processes, operation guidelines, and inspection standards for each type of logistics such as warehouse/inland transportation
- Establish communication channels and regular meeting session with carriers, SSL, customers, and internal departments
- Perform ad-hoc reporting, as required
- Perform other job related duties as required
Requirements for Logistics Operations Manager
- Bachelor Degree
- Bilingual in English and Korean (Excellent Korean written and verbal communication skills required)
- Experience with International Shipping Logistics Cost Analysis, understanding the contents of logistics costs incurred in international air/sea transportation, and identify trends and appropriate market price
- Experience with route setup, finding the optimal route with various transport modes and multimodal transport and setup for transport
- Experience in leading a group of team members with effective leadership
- Experience in establishing a transport plan that can optimize loading rate, transport time and logistics cost
- Experience in establishing and managing a logistics process for each type, such as warehouse operation/local transportation and operating guidelines.
- A good attitude and ability to work in a team setting
- Proficient in Outlook, MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint/Word) required (vlookups and pivot tables)
- Prioritization skill, able to shift focus to urgent issues while not falling behind on other duties
- Ability to travel up to 20% in domestic and international
