At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
In this role, you will be responsible for the Carrier setup, along with maintaining and managing both the rates, and the route maintenance within the TMS.
This role will be a critical component of the TMS functionality and will play a vital role in enabling the overall solution/execution. Also, ensuring that information from new contracts, change orders, and amendments is accurately reflected within the TMS, providing insights to other transportation teams.
In this role, you will look to identify the best option/s for each carrier for the various functions within the TMS, supporting rating, operational execution and tracking. As well as being accountable for ensuring that the right Tariff Master Data and Tariff Configuration Data Elements are managed within the TMS accurately.
As an additional responsibility, this role will also support the Procurement team during Request For Proposal, which could include data collection, rating exercises to support negotiations, and/or analysis of bid completeness.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Maintain route and rate maintenance
- Manage and maintain strategy by carrier for collaboration & connectivity
- Collaborative Contract Lifecycle Management within TMS: In partnership with Indirect Supply Management, regional teams and LCC day to day execution.
- Supports Budget Management and Carrier Alignment by accurately aligning system rate / route load and performing testing as needed to ensure accuracy and alignment
- Provide FP&A Support
- Compliance and Procedures: Work alongside carrier performance team to ensure compliance to contract, develop procedures, and maintain accurate records
- Systematic Updates: Maintain precise and updated contract records within the systems, enhancing accessibility and accuracy of information
- Pricing Guidance and Contract Support: Provide pricing guidance, contract support, and facilitate setups
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate for operational excellence with cross-functional teams
- Identifies carriers’ ability to integrate to our systems enable the tracking
Required Knowledge And Experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Logistic – Transportation role
- Minimum 2 years' experience using or managing TMS activities
- Knowledge of transportation operations and freight tendering / tracking processes
- Knowledge of various modes within the Transportation Industry and their pricing nuances
- Data analytics skills
- Hands-on mentality
- Self-starter with strong aptitude to think critically, solve problems, and drive improvements in a professional and respectful manner
- Ability to work within a team and cross-functionally, building relationships, influence and collaborate with peers
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
