About this Logistics Specialist role at Toyota Tsusho America
We firmly believe that our employees drive the success of the company! With success in mind as the ultimate goal, we strive to create and provide an environment that offers challenging, stimulating and financially rewarding opportunities. We are looking for The Right One to join our team!
What's In It For You?
Competitive Salary with Bonus Opportunities
Paid Time Off
Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits (Low Premiums!)
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
14 Paid Company Holidays
401(k) with Company Contribution
Educational Tuition Reimbursement
Summary
Logistics specialist serves as a critical liaison between overseas suppliers, internal stakeholders, and customers, ensuring seamless operations while maintaining financial integrity. This role requires strategic oversight of the end-to-end supply chain, proactive financial management, and the ability to drive operational excellence through data-driven decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.What You'll Do
- Orchestrate international logistics operations by managing comprehensive documentation workflows for outbound shipments, cross-border transfers, and regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to customs requirements and delivery timelines
- Direct procurement activities by strategically evaluating customer and affiliate demand, negotiating with suppliers, and issuing purchase orders that optimize cost, quality, and delivery performance
- Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with sales teams through proactive communication regarding inventory status, order fulfillment progress, and potential supply chain constraints that may impact customer commitments
- Execute performance monitoring protocols to track shipment accuracy, on-time delivery metrics, and service level agreements, implementing corrective actions when deviations occur
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process inefficiencies, leading root cause analysis for operational challenges, and driving cross-functional projects that enhance supply chain effectiveness
- Ensure forecast accuracy and demand planning integrity by maintaining 100% alignment between customer forecasts and actual orders, recognizing the critical impact on financial performance, working capital management, and supplier production planning
- Responsible for managing and avoiding aged account receivable.
- Work closely with contact manufacturer to achieve capacity requirements and address issues and concerns relating to suppliers’ performance as soon as possible.
- Makes important decisions for the procurement of raw materials and management of inventories to ensure continuous delivery of finished products to customers and avoidance of aged inventory.
What You'll Need
Associate's degree and 6-9 years of experience is preferred.
May lead (orient, train, assign, check work) of other administrative employees
Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer! It is the policy and commitment of the company to maintain a work environment that provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all its employees and applicants. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital/domestic partner status, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other applicable lawfully protected basis. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
We seek to employ individuals qualified for a position by virtue of job-related educational standards, training, experience, and personal qualifications.
