# Transportation Specialist

**Company**: 3M
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

The Transportation Specialist is responsible for managing day-to-day transportation operations, including oversight of third-party vendors and freight forwarders.

This role ensures efficient, cost-effective, and compliant movement of goods while driving continuous improvement across transportation processes.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Responsible for onboarding all vendors to the new Control Tower 4PL partner

- Coordinate and oversee daily transportation activities

- Manage relationships with 3M vendors, carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics service providers

- Ensure timely delivery performance and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs)

- Monitor shipment status, proactively resolving delays, disruptions, or service issues

- Act as the primary point of contact for carriers/transportation vendors and freight forwarders locally

- Serve as the key transportation contact for material vendors/suppliers to coordinate shipment readiness, collection planning, and issue resolution

- Evaluate vendor performance using KPIs such as on-time material readiness, cost, and service quality

- Conduct regular business reviews and implement corrective actions as needed

- Ensure compliance with transportation regulations, trade requirements, and company policies

- Review shipping documentation for accuracy

- Maintain audit-ready records for all transportation activities

- Identify inefficiencies in transportation processes and recommend improvements

- Analyze shipping data to drive cost savings, route optimization, and performance enhancements

- Lead or support projects related to network optimization, system improvements, and process standardization

- Monitor continuous improvement using metrics, root cause analysis, and best practices

- Monitor freight spend and identify cost-saving opportunities

- Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for transportation expenses

- Ensure cost-effective transportation solutions without compromising service quality

- Work closely with supply chain, vendors, procurement, and customer service teams

- Align transportation strategies with business needs and customer expectations

- Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and external partners

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)

- +5 to 7 years of experience in transportation, logistics, or supply chain operations

- Experience managing carriers, freight forwarders, or 3PL providers

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

- Proficiency in transportation management systems (TMS), ERP systems, and Microsoft Excel

- 10% of domestic travel to visit local suppliers

- Ability to converse in Chinese, Japanese, and English (optional: Korean)

**Preferred**

- Experience with international shipping, Air, Ocean and LCL modes, customs processes, and trade compliance

- Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.)

- Familiarity with KPI development and performance reporting

## Skills

### Required
- transportation management
- data analysis
- process improvement
- communication
- logistics
- supply chain
- Microsoft Excel
- TMS

### Nice to have
- international shipping
- customs processes
- trade compliance
- continuous improvement
- KPI development

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