Senior Administrative Associate, Transport Planning

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Job Description:

Directs multi-mode transportation service offerings (e.g., trucking, railroad, steamship, etc.) for distribution customers. Oversees vendor selection, negotiates rates and plans transportation routes to meet customer needs, and transit time expectations. Ensures that transport carrier performance meets UPS standards and regulatory compliance and provides recommendations for operational improvements. Ensures maximum efficiency and utilization of the transportation network fleet to reduce transportation costs and improve margins for UPS.
Provides administrative or technical support to ensure effective on-going operations. Applies knowledge of established processes and procedures to execute with excellence.
Requires full proficiency in a range of assignments gained through training and considerable experience. Provides solutions to problems in situations that are atypical or infrequently occurring. Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions. Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data. Completes work with a limited supervision. Likely to act as an informal resource for colleague with less experience.

Employee Type:

UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Other Criteria:

UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Basic Qualifications:

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer.