Inbound Logistics Coordinator

What will you do?

The primary responsibilities of the Inbound Logistics Coordinator are to proactively monitor, expedite, and measure the import/export flows from sourced vendor freight for their assigned region(s) and brand(s). Accountabilities also include regular meetings with logistics 3PL providers, carriers, as well as with internal business partners within the brands and distribution centers in the assigned region(s).

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

The Inbound Logistics Coordinator will monitor the flow of inbound air, ocean, and truck freight to the distribution network for the assigned region(s). Responsible for ensuring correct carriers are used, dwell time is minimized at various stages of the supply chain, and proactive communication of status of expedited freight to key stakeholders on a regular cadence. Responsible to make sure applicable systems (Infor Nexus, SAP, etc) are updated with relevant dates and milestones as movement of freight occurs within the supply chain. Coordinator will produce and present basic KPIs to measure logistics provider performance and will be accountable to recommend improvements or changes to business process to achieve target lead times and costs.

Logistics Strategy

• Engage with business partners in developing strategies related to cost, speed, and service.

• Collaborate with logistics team, carriers, and other business partners to develop, design, and implement logistics cost management and customer service enhancement strategies.

• Foster and develop strong relationships with logistics and transportation partners.

Logistics Analysis

• Conduct monthly root cause analysis on S&OP results and collaborate with Logistics team to provide commentary for S&OP meeting.
• Participate in the ongoing logistics supply chain analytics and utilize metrics to recommend carrier, service, and lead time changes.
• Identify and implement cost savings initiatives.
• Provide internal business partners with air freight estimates and make recommendations for alternative routings when appropriate.
• ·Responsible for all lead time analysis, publication, and performance measurements within the responsible brand operations.

Logistics/Transportation Operations Responsibility

• Monitor inbound in-transit visibility reporting to proactively identify and mitigate inbound flow exceptions such as vessel delays and container drayage delays.
• Notify internal customers with inbound delay information in a timely manner.
• Provide guidance to VF origin logistics team in the case of origin booking and loading exceptions.
• Provide VF distribution centers visibility to inbound volume flow, communicate priority shipments, and expedite deliveries with VF carriers.
• Collaborate with VF business partners and logistics providers to ensure we meet our end of quarter inventory goals.
• Work closely with Customs Compliance team and external customs brokers to optimize the inbound flow.

Miscellaneous

• Assume super user role in all relevant systems (Infor Nexus, SAP, etc).
• Lead and/or support ad hoc projects as assigned.
• As point person for brand Operations, Distribution, and Customer Service teams provide excellent service as needed.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 1+ years of experience and professional achievements.

• The foundation skills you will need in this position are:
• Knowledge of inbound logistics and all modes of carrier operations (air, ocean, truck, and courier).
• Above average interpersonal, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability and proven experience providing best-in-class service to stakeholders and key partners, especially with support to remote customers.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook Required). Access experience a plus.
• Must be comfortable making decisions with financial impact under uncertainty and sometimes under pressure with limited supervision.
• Experience using NGC, GT/Infor Nexus and SAP software preferred.
• Expertise with prioritization to achieve key deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team environment in pressure situations within changing demands and time constraints.

Location requirement: hybrid role, in Vans HQ (Costa Mesa, CA)

Now WE have a question for YOU.

Are you in?

Hiring Range:

Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.

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About Us

Vans is about a state of mind. Thinking differently. Embracing creative self-expression. Authenticity and progression. Choosing your own line on your board and in your life. Vans holds 50 years of youth culture connectivity, Vans continues to advance its roots in action sports while recognizing the global 'Off the Wall' connection between the brand and art, music and street culture enthusiasts.

Today, the Vans brand evolution continues- from its foundation as an original skateboarding company since '66, to a leading action sports brand, to defining its anthem of living 'Off the Wall' as youth culture. From its birthplace on the West Coast, Vans has grown beyond a shoe. It's a global movement- reaching from Barcelona to Beijing, Sao Paulo to Sydney, Orange County to New York.

Vans goes to market through its network of deeply rooted wholesale partners and its direct-to-consumer platform with more than 450 owned retail stores worldwide. Given this amazing platform to connect with consumers, we're constantly looking for better and more creative ways to amplify the brand's in-store presence. And equally strong is the Vans' extraordinary e-commerce and social media presence, inclusive of its digital video platform, OffTheWall.tv. Through its various online channels, Vans has access to over 14 million brand loyalists at any given time.

At Vans, providing consumer-focused product is essential and among perhaps one of the staunchest critics there is - the world's youth - the continued relevance and authenticity of Vans' product, whether performance-based or fashion-forward, must be in the right balance at all times. From weatherizing the head-to-toe collections to enhancing the durability of the performance based footwear, Vans is elevating the level of quality and technology and enabling active consumers everywhere to enjoy Vans through all four seasons.

We also believe it's important to deliver more than just great products. Vans supports the action sports lifestyle, youth culture and creative self-expression by promoting the sports, music, art and culture that matter most. The Vans team includes many top names in action sports including skateboarding legends Steve Caballero and Christian Hosoi, skate pros Geoff Rowley, Anthony Van Engelen, Gilbert Crockett and Tony Trujillo, BMX riders Dakota Roche and Scotty Cranmer, surfers Dane Reynolds, Nathan Fletcher, Joel Tudor and Leila Hurst and snowboarders Louri Podladtchikov, Andreas Wiig, and Hana Beaman.

Vans owns and sponsors world-class events in skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding and BMX including the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing®, the Vans Pool Party, the Van Doren Invitational and surfing’s most prestigious contest the Vans US Open of Surfing.

Vans supports original and creative music acts ranging from Band of Horses to Public Enemy to Turbonegro by bringing memorable shows to global audiences at the House of Vans roving music venue that echoes Vans’ Brooklyn-based cultural hub and to more than half a million fans each summer at the Vans Warped Tour, America’s longest-running music tour.

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