Job Description

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Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies. 

Position Description: 

The primary responsibility of the Freight Coord. Dispatcher is to Route out going deliveries and communications regarding freight shipments and transportation needs for ATD Branches and Mixing Warehouses and the coordination of forward DC’s shipments to ensure proper workload and Distribution Center goals for productivity are achieved, also responsible for achieving delivery of merchandise and documentation within projected timelines and liaising effectively and fostering relationships with ATD team members.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Achieve delivery of merchandise and documentation within projected timelines.
• Liaising effectively and fostering relationships with ATD team members.
• Maintain accurate information and reports of all assigned materials. Ensure project objectives and milestones are achieved.
• Coordinate and work closely with appointed field contacts to ensure common objectives are met, support the Logistic Manager/Analyst to achieve corporate goals while providing recommendations of continuous process improvements. Improvements should lead to the minimization of freight expenses while bolstering branch sales. 
• Assist in the validation of expenses and help identify trends for further analysis.
• Maintaining worksheets on detention charges throughout American Tire Distributors. Analyze data to determine root cause.  Works Closely with ATD Accounting Department.
• Tender Exception Deliveries with Carriers along while coordinating with the receiving branch to assure branch effectiveness.
• Work closely with Freight Payment organizations assuring proper Freight rates are applied to all ship methods, communicate effectively with all disciplines.
• Execute reports timely and accurately, hold carriers to freight metrics established by Logistic Analyst, excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Commitment to tasks and goals set forth by operations

Key Partners (Positions):

• Logistics Manager
• Operations Manager
• Asst. General Manager
• Procurement Manager
• ATD Accounting

Experience(s) that Best Prepares You:                       

• Education:  High school diploma
• Experience: Previous Logistics experience and accounting skills preferred.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Company, in its discretion may find appropriate and acceptable.

Key Competencies:

Self-management:

Set well defined and realistic goals

Display initiative and commitment to meet goals

Work with minimal supervision

Decision Making:

Make sound, well informed and objective decisions.

Understand the impact of the decisions made.

Creative Thinking: 

Use imagination to develop solutions to problems.

Always remember what worked yesterday no longer works today.

Continuous Learning:

Recognize strengths and weaknesses

Allow feedback from others and pursue self-development.

Demonstrate Respect:

Handle all business matters ethically and in full compliance with American Tire Distributors “Code of Conduct”.

Teamwork:

Work collaboratively with all departments to coordinate effective work environment. Share information and foster the exchange of ideas.

Be Accountable for Results:

Assume full responsibility for the consequences of one’s behavior, decisions, and results.

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:

• Physical demands:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Travel required:  as required by the specific position.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.  Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment in any way for any person.   All employees hired by American Tire Distributors, Inc. are employees at will and the company reserves the right to terminate employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

Build a challenging and rewarding career with us!

American Tire Distributors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace

Shift Type: 1st Shift (United States of America)
Job ID: R13667