Logistics Engineer I at Uber Freight in Greensboro, North Carolina

Job Description:

About the Role



Uber Freight is looking for experienced professionals with a background in the Logistics Engineering field. Our specialist will work strategically with potential clients to gain an understanding of their specific supply chain challenges and to jointly explore supply chain improvement opportunities. In addition, the engineering group provides tactical decision-making services that bridge the gap between strategic planning and operational execution all while providing excellent customer service to our customers.



What the Candidate Will Do

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  Project Management
  




• Gather customer requirements.


• Schedule strategy calls with stakeholders


• Scope project appropriately


• Assign responsibilities to Sales or Ops


• Engage Sales or Ops in projects


• Coordinate Sales or Ops assignments with cross-functional teams, holding all participants accountable to project milestones and deadlines.




• 
  Customer Relationships
  




• Communicate effective, prompt, detailed and courteous communications


• Act as an expert adviser to the customer to inform them of options and recommend the best practice for the customer's supply chain




• 
  Internal Analytical Support
  




• Execute batch mileage applications to calculate lane distances


• Analyze consolidation savings for internal customers


• Develop heuristics and incorporate into program


• Statistical Analysis




• 
  Supply Chain Solutions
  




• Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of customers supply chain opportunities and challenges


• Evaluate and design/model customer distribution network


• Use advanced modeling to evaluate and optimize the customer's transportation and distribution network


• Lane Benchmarking (Utilize Uber Freight market knowledge and leverage existing Uber Freight data, including procurement and that of external data sources)


• Analyze and benchmark historical shipment data


• Model supply chain network in propriety software




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  Opportunity Pricing
  




• Analyze and benchmark historical shipment data


• Coordinate pricing exercise with internal brokerage teams


• Collect and evaluate responses from internal brokerage, determining validity


• Determine validity utilizing statistical comparisons of benchmark data and final responses


• Communicate anomalies and recommend appropriate changes


• Compare benchmark and internal brokerage results and provide overall transportation savings opportunity through standard scenarios


• Present savings opportunity to salesperson and make recommendation on final pricing results

Basic Qualifications

• 0 - 2 years of experience in a logistics engineering


• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or closely related field OR High School diploma or GED equivalent, with minimum 4 years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Freight Industry


• Reporting and Analytics (Ability to run BI reports; validate information; understand report, and offer feedback and deliver insights to your manager and or customer contacts on the information contained within the report)


• Microsoft Excel— knowledge of Microsoft Excel including but not limited to VLookup, Pivot Tables and advanced formulas


• Basic knowledge of optimization software


• Basic Understanding of Supply Chain Management Principles & Strategies - Design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally


• Strong project management skills


• Statistical representation of operations through detailed data analysis


• Working Knowledge of relational database and SQL

About Uber Freight



Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages over $18 billion of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visitwww.uberfreight.com.



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Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Apply Now