Supply Chain Consultant - TMS

Summary

Join Open Sky Group as a TMS Consultant and implement the MercuryGate (Infios) TMS application for clients. You will leverage your transportation expertise and MG TMS skills to develop comprehensive solutions, enhance supply chain performance, and conduct process re-engineering. Responsibilities include understanding client needs, sharing best practices, creating functional design documents, executing designs within the MG TMS application, and collaborating with internal and external teams. You will utilize project management processes, participate in client meetings, and maintain client confidentiality. This is a remote, full-time role with up to 35% travel.

Requirements

• 4 years’ understanding of transportation, transportation concepts, freight rates, logistics functional processes, and familiarity with standard transportation transactions (204, 990, 214, 753, 754, 856, 210, 300, 301)
• 4 years’ experience with MercuryGate (Infios) TMS
• Experience configuring and executing multiple carrier modes, including Parcel, LTL, TL, Ocean, Intermodal, Rail, Air, etc
• Carriers & Carrier Maintenance
• Rates & Rate Maintenance
• Optimization, Load Tendering & Exceptions
• Track and Trace
• Freight Bill Audit
• KPIs and Reporting
• APIs, including SOAP and REST
• Systems including ERP (SAP, Oracle, Infor), Shipping Management Software (Centiro, Logistyx, SMC3), Visibility (Inttra, FourKites, P44), Samsara, Omnitracs, Financials (SalesForce, WorkDay), YMS, BI (Cognos, PowerBI, Tableau), etc
• Skills including SQL, XML, JSON; electronic interfacing methods (EDI, XML, Flat File, etc.), transport methods (EDI VAN, AS2, FTP, etc.)
• Understanding of connected fleet management technology and its integrations (familiarity with Lytx DriveCam, Geotab, TenStreet, Zonar, Eleos, ThermoKing)
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the US. Can live anywhere in the US
• This is a home-based, full-time, exempt role
• This position requires the ability to travel up to 35% by airplane and/or car, with overnights
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• The employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms
• This position requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry or pull office products and supplies, up to 40 pounds

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to understand their problems, opportunities, and risks
• Share industry best practices and be simultaneously flexible to clients’ unique circumstances
• Engage consistently across remote and in-person sessions to build relationships
• Produce detailed functional design documents to capture client requirements
• Execute each clients’ unique design within the MG TMS application
• Utilize established PM processes and tools to illustrate progress and manage toward assigned task due dates, communicating updates, including successes and blockers, to Teammates and Manager(s)
• Collaborate closely with both internal and external client members to maintain progress, and relationships and ultimately ensure completion of deliverables per phase throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Participate and lead, when needed, project meetings with clients
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality when working with client information

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong track record demonstrating industry and application expertise, ownership of task completion and project success
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong verbal and written presentation skills
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and in a team environment with the ability to handle multiple priorities and complete tasks in a timely manner in a fast moving and dynamic environment
• Candidates will also be organized and analytical and comfortable designing and executing approved designs within the designated project schedule

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurance
• Incentive compensation
• A retirement savings plan with company match
• A flexible and fun work environment