Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Design end-to-end supply chain solutions tailored to client needs, leveraging industry best practices and advanced logistics tools.
Lead engineering support for client RFPs and RFQs, including solution design, network modeling, pricing inputs, and development of written responses and client-facing presentations.
Manage spot quote and RFQ activity for key accounts, ensuring timely, competitive responses and coordinating rate, capacity, and service inputs across internal teams. This includes managing and quality-reviewing the output of the dedicated pricing desk team, ensuring accuracy, competitiveness, and correct spot versus contract-rate determinations. This includes triage of incoming shipment requests, determining spot versus contract-rate applicability, and escalating recurring lanes for migration into standing contract rates.
Partner with the Global Tender Management team and Sales to ensure RFP responses are competitive, accurate, and aligned with operational capabilities.
Identify process gaps and recommend, design, and implement process improvements.
Oversee rate and cost data integrity for assigned accounts across air, ocean, and ground, including auditing carrier-provided costs, ensuring accurate accessorial itemization, and supporting rate card administration.
Proactively identify, quantify, and present cost-savings and network-optimization opportunities to clients as a core component of ongoing account support, including responsibility for presenting a defined annual savings target to the client across air, ocean, and ground supply chain optimization.
Establish baselines, define KPIs, and implement performance measures to track ongoing solution effectiveness.
Track spot event volume, quote cycle time, and rate and accessorial accuracy trends; flag recurring issues and template or process gaps and drive corrective actions.
Apply advanced analytics to interpret business data and drive continuous improvement.
Meet with clients on a regular basis and deliver clear, executive-level presentations.
Lead recurring business reviews with key clients, presenting performance results, savings delivered, and forward-looking optimization roadmaps.
Act as a liaison across Operations, Sales, Clients, and the broader Engineering team to align on solution design and delivery.
Mentor and develop junior engineers and analysts, supporting their technical growth and project execution.
Other duties as assigned.
Other Skills and Abilities
Strong technical aptitude across:
Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Transportation Management Systems (TMS) such as e2open TMF or Descartes Aljex; Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) experience a plus
SmartSheet (or similar) structured trackers and Coupa Sourcing (CSO)/Coupa Pay
Microsoft Visio (or similar) for process mapping
Experience with:
Transportation routing and network optimization tools, such as Appian DirectRoute (trucking) and Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru (supply chain network design)
Simulation and inventory modeling tools
Data visualization platforms - Tableau, Spotfire, and Power BI
Additionally:
Strong working knowledge of Air, Ocean, and Ground transportation operations, pricing, and optimization, including per-kilo, per-container, and per-truckload rate construction and common accessorials.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear client deliverables.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
Ability and willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time for client meetings, business reviews, and site visits.
Ability to work on-site in Houston, TX.
Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree preferred in Engineering/Business/Supply Chain or equivalent.
MBA and/or Industrial Engineering favored.
Minimum of seven years of related experience.
Certification and Licenses
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification preferred.
WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FOR CRANE?
At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work.
We offer:
Quarterly Incentive Plan
136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use
Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job
Employee Referral Bonuses
Employee Recognition and Rewards Program
Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities
Employee Discounts
Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates
Come join the leader in logistics and take your career in the right direction.
Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
This position requires the final candidate to successfully pass an E-Verify Check.
More Information: http://www.dhs.gov/e-verify
Company benefits are contingent upon meeting eligibility requirements and plan conditions.
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