The Transportation Analyst provides advanced analytical and operational support for end-to-end transportation processes within the LATAM region. This role ensures supply chain efficiency, compliance, risk mitigation, continuous improvement, and drives sustainability objectives by leveraging logistics systems expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in strategic transportation projects

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor, and optimize inbound shipments to LATAM, ensuring adherence to service level agreements and operational KPIs.
• Oversee and analyze exports from Brazil and Costa Rica manufacturing sites, ensuring optimization, and alignment with customer requirements.
• Analyze logistics data, troubleshoot issues, and support process enhancements.
• Investigate shipment delays, discrepancies, and nonconformities; lead root cause analysis, implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and maintain thorough documentation.
• Develop, automate, and maintain dashboards and performance reports to facilitate insight-driven decision making.
• Support the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for global freight forwarding partners, defining requirements, evaluating bids, and onboarding vendors.
• Co-manage freight forwarder performance through comprehensive KPI tracking, reporting, and collaboration to ensure continuous improvement and service level compliance.
• If requested, represent transportation operations in regional Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) and global Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), presenting business updates, and making alignment with our freight partners.
• Support sustainability initiatives in transportation, benchmark emissions, implement green logistics projects, and track progress against targets.
• Establish and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) for carrier management, shipment documentation, and operational hand-offs.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across customs, compliance, warehousing, manufacturing, quality, and logistics partners to resolve issues and support operational excellence.
• Participate in cross-functional continuous improvement projects focusing on cost savings, process optimization and digitalization of logistics processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or related discipline
• 3+ years’ experience in transportation, supply chain, or logistics; in the LATAM region.
• Proficiency with SAP transportation/logistics modules and Transportation Management Systems (TMS); advanced Excel and data visualization (Power BI, Tableau) skills.
• Demonstrated experience in project management, process improvement
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Fluent English required; Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency strongly preferred.

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