Transportation Logistics Specialist

Job Summary

The Transportation Logistics Specialist will perform activities that ensure efficient truck transportation of materials and products from origin to destination for the CHS Ag and Energy Platforms. We seek a professional who will participate in identifying and selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective truck transportation. This position will also provide stakeholders in the product lines with accurate and market-based freight pricing and ensure that accurate freight rates are loaded in appropriate rating systems. Additionally, they will build a firm understanding of freight markets within the position's scope of responsibility and use this understanding to communicate market insights, context, and knowledge to stakeholders within CHS. Likewise, the Transportation Logistics Specialist will work to improve organizational understanding of customer and plant specific shipping requirements across multiple product lines and assist in effectively managing to these requirements and communicating them to our third-party truck carriers.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the enterprise transportation carrier management strategy through rate negotiations, relationship management, capacity management, shipment execution, truck carrier segmentation, and overall spend management.
• Negotiate rates with carriers, maximize load pairing (backhauls) and value creation across product lines in a collaborative manner with other transportation team members.
• Independently analyze current transportation operations practices to resolve process and cost improvement opportunities.
• Negotiate rates and contract terms, ensuring rates paid for transportation services are competitive and executed in the best interest of CHS (one CHS voice to truck carriers).
• Serve as subject matter expert on transportation markets and rates. Ensure that all third-party transportation relationships are profitable and accretive to business unit earnings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Systems and Data

• Maintain carrier performance/KPIs and take corrective action to reverse negative trends and maintain required service levels to meet both CHS and customer expectations.
• Update TMS (Master Mind), internal documents/spreadsheets, databases and systems for contracts, freight rates, and volume estimates, customer information, and resolve any truck freight invoice issues to ensure accurate payments to third-party truck carriers.

About the Client

This client is a Fortune 500 agricultural cooperative — the largest farmer-owned enterprise of its kind in the United States — serving customers in 65 countries and operating across grain handling and marketing, agronomy, food processing, energy distribution, and financial services. Founded in 1931 and governed by active farmers and ranchers, the organization employs more than 10,000 professionals, including grain merchandisers, agronomists, energy distribution specialists, supply chain and logistics experts, and financial services professionals who collaborate to connect American agricultural production to global markets.

About GTT

We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.