Transportation Analyst

Transportation Analyst

Location: Thomasville, GA, US

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) is not just about baking; it's about crafting moments of joy with every delicious bite. With 2024 sales of $5.1 billion, and as one of the leading producers of packaged bakery goods in the United States, Flowers Foods brings passion to the table. From the wholesome goodness of Nature's Own and Wonder to the bold and artisanal flavors of Dave's Killer Bread, the rustic goodness of Canyon Bakehouse, and the sweet delights of Tastykake, each product is a celebration of taste and quality. Beyond the oven, Flowers Foods fosters a culture that values and reflects Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility. With a commitment to innovation and a recipe for success, Flowers Foods is more than a bakery it's a delightful journey into the heart of flavor and community.

Full-time employees are offered the following benefits: Comprehensive health and medical benefits, 401(k) Retirement savings plan, Professional growth and leadership training, Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave. Benefits may vary depending on your work location.

The Transportation Analyst provides key financial and analytical insights across corporate logistics, warehouse logistics and distribution departments. The role is supported by our digital investment and utilizes tools to provide greater insights and dynamic reporting to drive operational achievement. The role is responsible for weekly, bi-weekly and period financial reporting supporting day-to-day management along with our S&OP process. The Transportation Analyst will support the Manager of Digital Logistics & COE across any ad-hoc requests that are focused on driving efficiency and reducing our year-over-year costs. This role requires a digitally savvy and data-driven leader who looks for ways to improve reporting and visibility to drive stronger accountability.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop weekly, period, quarterly, and annual KPI reporting of logistics performance
• Interact with bakery, regional, and corporate team members to provide analytical logistics performance data and insights.
• Develop materials and insights for the bi-weekly logistics performance calls, regional logistics performance meetings and ad-hoc requests.
• Create and maintain reporting dashboards using various Business Intelligence (BI) tools while partnering with the technical product owner and digital products team members.
• Brokerage: maintain brokerage capability including setting our strategy, new carrier onboarding, carrier quotation participation and all brokerage related reporting/ value tracking. Also, serve as the single point person that brokers all planned and unplanned brokerage freight needs.
• Backhaul: maintain backhaul capability including setting our strategy, maintaining strong relationship with Procurement, constantly evaluating opportunities across brokerage or on our own assets, utilizing the brokerage tool for quotation and all backhaul related/ reporting/ value tracking
• Warehouse Frozen Network: Provide transportation support for warehouse operations, managing both inbound and outbound loads to oversee the frozen network.
• Budget: provide insights and opportunities on the corporate logistics budget each period and share with key corporate logistics leaders
• Display a professional and courteous attitude to co-workers, supervisors, and the carrier community always
• Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures (EEO, Sexual Harassment, Sarbanes Oxley, Safety, etc.)
• Performance of other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adhere to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across the organization
• Must be willing to adapt to different work settings as required by schedule
• Must possess extremely good organizational skills with the ability to multitask, work independently, and to effectively prioritize
• Ability to generate written and verbal communication as well as read and review correspondence
• Ability to attend work on a regular and consistent basis

Additional Ingredients:

• Essential Job Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in operations, logistics, or other supply chain management related field
• Minimum of 2 years of shipping and relay experience
• Salary Range- $58,800 - $60,000

We offer a competitive salary up to $60k and an excellent total rewards package. Interested job seekers who successfully complete the series of pre-screening questions and who appear to possess the basic qualifications for this position may be contacted for a telephone interview.

EEO Statement Flowers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Flowers encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or people of any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.