Arconic has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Category Manager International & Air Freight within our Corporate Transportation Procurement.
This position will report to the Senior Manager Transportation Excellence and International Freight and can be situated either at our Headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, or at one of our Production Plant locations (Davenport, IA Alcoa, TN Lancaster, PA).
This individual will be innovative, analytical, process driven, and team oriented with an entrepreneurial approach to problems.
This candidate must be able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced and at times ambiguous environment.
This role will be responsible for our International Freight strategy (Ocean, Transloading, & Air) and is fundamental to the advancement of the Transportation organization within Arconic.
We will look to this individual in developing fresh, creative, and effective ideas that drive transparency, process optimization, compliance, and cost savings with the overarching target of broadening & strengthening our service level to our stakeholders and customers.
We are looking for an individual who is motivated to make a difference in an area that is ripe with opportunity. This role requires knowledge of overall supply chain, sound financial acumen, and knowledge of logistics as well as their inter-connectivity to upstream supply chains and downstream customers.
Excellent communication and partnership skills are essential as the role interfaces with a broad stakeholder base including operational teams, supply chain leaders, global process owners, customers, suppliers, Trade Compliance, etc.
If you are a highly motivated individual who thrives on analytics, loves to problem solve, is solution oriented, is creative, and is good with people; let’s talk!
Key Deliverables / Focus of this role :
- Category Management for Ocean, Transloading and Air including the development and execution overall category strategy and sourcing strategies.
- Strategically drive process improvements and standardization that align with our Category Strategy, Transportation Game Plan, and support stakeholders needs (.
continuous development of the NVOCC model, Transparency across shipment segments, Standard analytics, Market Assessments, etc)
- Proactive communication of Market Insights, evaluation of impact of those insights to Arconic, and effective communication or current events to Stakeholders
- Act as Project Manager in the evaluation and deployment of automated Booking process for Ocean and Air shipments to streamline the process and enhance transparency.
- Supporting in the establishment and deployment of standardized reporting, Key Performance Indicators, as well as controlling activities to support process compliance.
- Collaborate with Global Trade Compliance to ensure all shipments are compliant with all import / export requirements.
- Act as an escalation point for stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective transportation of International and air shipments.
- Effectively navigate international freight issues with stakeholders and partners to resolve and operational issues that arise.
- Effective Collaboration with internal and external Stakeholders
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