Transportation Management Specialist (all genders)

Job Title

Transportation Management Specialist (all genders)

Job Description

Your role:

As a Transportation Management Specialist, you will manage transportation planning and execution while proactively monitoring shipments on a global level. You will play a critical role in ensuring operational excellence, cost optimization, and full compliance with regulatory and documentation requirements.

Your key responsibilities include:

• End‑to‑end transportation planning and execution with proactive daily monitoring of shipments
• Global operational monitoring of shipments, including milestone tracking and deviation management
• Tracking shipments, driving corrective actions, and ensuring recovery in case of missed milestones
• Optimization of transportation operations across regions, including carrier and freight forwarder capacity leverage and lane allocation
• Driving and supporting cost optimization initiatives
• Maintenance of correct and complete master data in TMS and related logistics systems
• Coordination and communication of deviations between factories, warehouses, markets, and logistics service providers
• Driving transportation process improvements and operational excellence initiatives
• Ensuring executional compliance, delivery quality, and adherence to regulatory and quality requirements
• Implementing and driving global logistics process standardization

In addition, you will be responsible for transportation and shipping documentation, including:

• Preparation, validation, and control of transport and shipping documentation (e.g. transport documents, export/import documentation, commercial invoices, packing lists)
• Ensuring documentation accuracy and completeness to support customs clearance, regulatory compliance, and on‑time delivery

You’re the right fit if:

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, with a focus on Logistics or Transportation
• You have 1-2 years of relevant experience in transportation, logistics operations, freight forwarding, or a shipper environment
• You have a good understanding of international transportation documentation and customs‑related processes
• You demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with internal stakeholders and service providers
• You have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and an analytical mindset
• You have good working knowledge of MS Office, with expert‑level skills in Microsoft Excel / Access
• Knowledge of SAP and TMS systems is a strong asset
• You have a fluent level of English

Compensation & benefits
Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The annual base salary range for this role is 71,200 PLN – 94,933 PLN. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience, and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations.
This role is eligible for an annual incentive, with your rewards linked to both individual performance and company results. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision. Benefits include: hybrid working, paid time off, health and wellbeing benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, and learning and development opportunities. 

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
 

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