Transportation Coordinator

Shearer's Foods, founded in 1974 and headquartered in Massillon, OH, is a leading manufacturer of salty snacks, cookies, and crackers. Specializing in private label and co-manufacturing, Shearer's is the largest supplier of private brand salty snacks and second-largest supplier of private brand cookies and crackers.

With a strong focus on innovation, service, quality, and sustainability, Shearer's has been awarded the food industry's highest award for environmental sustainability, as well as multiple Supplier of the Year awards.

Operating 16 locations across North America and employing more than 5000 team members, Shearer's is driven by its core values of People, Grow, Impact and Win. The company mission is to deliver exceptional products and services that make snacking a time to celebrate for our customers, colleagues, and community.

At Shearer's Foods, we believe in a skills-first approach to recruitment and employment. This means focusing on what you can do and how you can grow, rather than traditional metrics alone. We are committed to adhering to anti-exclusion practices, removing barriers to access, and enhancing opportunities for all individuals based on merit and potential. Your skills, experience, and perspective are valuable-and we want to empower you to make your mark here with us.

Transportation Coordinator

Massillon, OH (Hybrid Schedule)

The Transportation Coordinator will oversee transportation logistics and ensure products are delivered on time and according to regulations. The position will help the Supply Chain Team and report to the Transportation Manager.

Your Seat at the Table:

• Work efficiently with Customer Service and Warehousing to achieve established shared goals, support order changes, special requests, and customer freight requirements.
• Evaluates and implements transportation and distribution procedures to maximize delivery efficiency for international, intercompany, and raw material transportation methods.
• Conduct Shipment level speed and transit analysis to identify cost effectiveness, considering the needs of the business.
• Identify variances and work with the Transportation Team to optimize costs & service.
• Researches and analyzes transportation and pricing data global freight costs/classifications, tariffs, delivery methods, routing needs and delivery schedules in collaborations with vendors and suppliers to minimize delivery costs.
• Analyze transportation operations, including performance and productivity data, error rates and their root causes.
• Manage operational process improvement projects, I.E., Order life cycle reductions, implementing SOP's.
• Identify and lead projects to help measure and improve lane routing and performance.
• Monitor and analyze carrier expectations, execution, reporting and data integrity to ensure accountability from both internal and external partners.
• Monitor exception reports and partner with Procurement, Customer Service & Production Planning to create and initiate action plans to resolve repetitive service issues.
• Own development and maintain SOP's.
• Become coordinator-level user in JDA TMS.
• Maintain full truckload intermodal and LTL routing guides for Intercompany shipments.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.