Planner

Responsibilities

• Process referent and owner of Airfreight approval process, accountable to enforce compliance, proper level of information for decision making and correct cost allocation.
• Evaluate tactical requests for airfreight, confirm necessity, and communicate with requestor.
• Identify non-compliant airfreight occurrences, calculate impacts (cost and CO2) and communicate to leadership.
• Analyze open PO’s and communicate with Planning personnel on opportunities to reduce upcoming airfreight usage proactively.
• Assess and maintain master data parameters for accurate air and ocean freight cost estimate vs Transit Times for decision making based on data.
• Monthly review with Finance to guarantee correct cost allocation of airfreight to different projects and cost center.
• Collaborate with Planning to define airfreight forecast for the subsequent months and discuss capacity with carriers and freight forwarders.
• Translate forecast into transport handling units, weights, and dimensions.
• Analyze deviations on forecast vs actual utilization and collaborate with planning to improve accuracy.
• Lead and collaborate with International Transport Operations and Procurement to identify and communicate hybrid alternatives to airfreight.
• Develop KPIs to analyze airfreight pareto and key triggers for action.
• Explore, identify, and develop internal tools to simplify overall process and streamline the approval flow.
• Assist LTP Leader with Ad-Hoc project support.