Highlights
This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products. Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Davenport, FL (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $31.17 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: Specialist Commodities Distribution
Location: Davenport, FL, 33897
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Shift Timings: 1st Shift
Job Description:
- Seeking a temporary contractor to provide transportation operations support during a team member's parental leave.
- This role will help ensure continuity of daily transportation execution, carrier coordination, and issue resolution across Client's domestic transportation network.
Main Duties:
- Support daily transportation execution and monitor shipments for service issues.
- Coordinate with carriers, plants, distribution centers, and internal partners to resolve transportation exceptions.
- Monitor carrier performance, including tender acceptance, pickup, and delivery execution.
- Escalate service or capacity risks and drive timely resolution.
- Assist with shipment tracking, operational reporting, and follow-up on open issues.
- Support peak-volume and customer-service priorities as needed.
- Maintain clear, proactive communication with transportation stakeholders.
Typical Day:
- Review active shipments and identify pickup, delivery, capacity, or service risks.
- Planning shipments, coordinating with carriers for pickups and deliveries coordinating with 3PL Uber Freight.
- Work directly with carriers to resolve late pickups, missed deliveries, rejected tenders, and other exceptions.
- Coordinate with plants, DCs, customer teams, and internal transportation partners on priority shipments.
- Monitor carrier performance and follow up on open issues until resolved.
- Escalate significant service or capacity concerns quickly and provide clear status updates.
- Support daily reporting, shipment tracking, and operational meetings.
- Balance planned work with urgent transportation issues that arise throughout the day.
Top Three Technical Skills:
- Transportation Management Systems (TMS): Experience managing loads, tenders, shipment status, and transportation exceptions.
- Excel & Data Analysis: Comfortable with Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, filters, and basic transportation performance reporting.
- Transportation Execution & Carrier Management: Understanding of truckload operations, tender acceptance, appointment/pickup and delivery performance, capacity management, and carrier issue resolution.
Must Haves:
- 2+ years of experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or a related operational role.
- Hands-on transportation execution experience, including shipment tracking, carrier coordination, and resolving pickup/delivery exceptions.
- TMS experience, with the ability to manage loads, tenders, shipment status, and service issues.
- Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, filtering, and basic data analysis.
- Experience working directly with carriers and cross-functional operational teams.
- Strong problem-solving and prioritization skills in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Ability to communicate issues clearly and proactively escalate service or capacity risks.
Software Skills and Purpose:
- Transportation Management System (TMS) / Uber Freight: Manage shipment execution, tenders, load status, carrier performance, and transportation exceptions.
- Microsoft Excel: Analyze transportation data, track performance, research issues, and create operational reporting. Pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, filtering, and basic formulas preferred.
- SAP S/4HANA: Review shipment/order information and support troubleshooting of transportation execution issues.
- Microsoft Outlook & Teams: Daily communication with carriers, plants, DCs, and internal partners, including issue escalation and coordination.
Industry Experience:
- Transportation/logistics experience required, preferably within CPG, food & beverage, manufacturing, or another high-volume distribution environment.
- Truckload carrier management and daily transportation execution experience strongly preferred. Tanker experience a plus.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.