Manager - Logistics - Freight Payment

Accountabilities

- Manage a team of 25-30 employees including direct report staff of both direct employees and contingent employees

- Oversee freight pay and audit process including accruals for domestic and international transportation for various transportation modes including air, ocean, truck and rail

- Drive Key KPI's including, on-time payment, freight payment match %, carrier billing accuracy.

- Implement the internal freight pay audit process driving towards 100% global overage

- Coordinate the on-boarding of new carriers onto the payment process

- Interface with 3PL payment provider in the Americas providing cost center coding rules and payment inquiry support

- Manage relationship with external VAN provider of EDI services

- Troubleshoot and drive issue resolution regarding freight pay and audit errors

- Improve timeliness and accuracy of carrier payments

- Improve accuracy of monthly accrual processes, simplifying process where applicable

- Standardize all freight payment process utilized, reducing the current exception processing

- Oversee the loading of new and updated carrier rate cards into the TMS for various modes of transportation

- Oversee employees reviewing US customer carrier routing guides and maintaining carrier determination tables in SAP PR2 and PH1

- Support all financial audit requests related to internal audit of freight payments

- Support Business Unit requests for freight spend analytics, Journal entries, and freight accruals.

- Maintain and update all polices and procedures for the payment process

- Implement RPA tool for repetitive audit and coding tasks.

- Drive and complete other projects as assigned