Freight Administrator - Laval, Canada - Lafarge Canada Inc

Lafarge Canada Inc

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Laval, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we're committed to shaping a

greener,

smarter and

healthier world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,

safety comes first,

collaboration matters and

diversity is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually

make our materials better.
Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

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Overview:
The Freight Administrator ensures the integrity of the information in SAP as it pertains to freight. The administrator must maintain a strong working relationship and open communication with carriers, sales

teams, logistics/distribution team and plant operations personnel to assist and support the following key activities: A) Maintain carrier rates and fuel surcharge up to date in SAP; B) Manage shipment cost corrections and carrier payment reconciliations; C) Validate and process waiting time and accessorial charges in SAP; D) Manage the Unbilled report and work with other teams to ensure that month-end targets are maintained.

Responsibilities:

Safety:

Promotes a positive safety culture through leadership by example and participation with others to drive the development of safety initiatives within the cement supply chain network.
Adheres to all Lafarge safety policies and procedures.

Systems & Data Management:

Ensures the integrity of the information in the system (SAP) as it relates to freight.
Provide support by providing SAP information, maintain rates up to date, enter monthly fuel surcharge, PO creation/changes.
Be involved into processing carrier waiting time and accessorial charges.
Provide support to carriers with payment disputes and reconciliations.
This task includes validating and disputing charges when necessary.

Reporting:

Communicate and monitor the freight data performance accordingly with the Logistics Transportation team Monitor the unbilled report daily and work with the CVC Supervisor to ensure that all shipments have a freight rate in SAP.
Update and maintain the freight KPI's Dashboard report and work with branch plants, sales team and the CVC, to maintain monthend targets.
Provide support with the Open Preload process.
Oversee the open preload report. Work with carriers and branch plants to ensure preloads are completed in a timely manner.
Acts as the main point of contact for Finance in relation to logistics data.

Process Improvement:

Identifies opportunities for improvement, puts actions plans in place, create reports to measure progress and implement follow up tools in relation to onroad carrier performance.
Creates and implements continuous performing business data analysis to support decision making process.

Relationships with Others Jobs:

High level of interaction with Sales teams, Transportation Manager, Freight Supervisor and Finance teams.
High level of interaction with CVC, Terminals and Plants.

Dimensions:

Geography: Eastern Canada
Product Lines: Cement

Qualifications:
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Education and Work Experience:
_**- 2 to 3 years of general business or logistics/supply chain experience preferred.

Logistics certification preferred.
Experience with Google Docs, SAP and asset.

Knowledge and Skills:

Demonstrate strong skills in problem solving, decision making and multitasking.
Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with intermediate levels of management (Directors through end users).
Experience working and administrating databases.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Time management and selfmanagement skills including the ability to redefine priorities based on demand.
Strong sense of teamwork.

Job Specific Competency Profile (Lominger)

Problem Solving
Process Management
Action Oriented
Time Management

LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are

passionate, driven by

curiosity and keen to

grow,

learn, develop and

thrive in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.