Freight Payment Manager

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 Freight Payment Manager is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely processing of freight invoices, auditing agreements, and coordinating freight payments. This role supports cost control and process efficiency within transportation operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Audit and monitor SLAs and contracts with transportation partners and freight aggregators.
• Collaborate with domestic and international staff to ensure timely processing of freight bills.
• Collaborate with internal SMEs to resolve problems and support implementations.
• Collaborate with carriers and freight payment providers to maintain efficient payment workflows.
• Process weekly domestic and international metrics performance reports.
• Ensure Distribution Center operations adhere to best practices and resolve issues promptly.
• Monitor key performance indicators, executing root cause analysis.
• Ensure planned and actual freight invoice costs match, resolving discrepancies efficiently.
• Ensure timely data processing, reporting, analysis, and response to customer inquiries.
• Execute analysis and prepare data to support logistics activities.

Competencies

• Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Analyze Alternatives & Recommend Solutions - Ability to analyze potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders; Business capability analysis, Business model canvas, Business rules analysis, Concept modeling, Prototyping
• Attention to Detail - Ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task.
• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Financial Management Methods -Ability to oversee and execute financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals, transfers, and payments, while ensuring accuracy, security, and compliance with banking regulations. Proficiency in utilizing banking systems and software to process transactions efficiently and maintain transaction records. Possess strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and risk management abilities to identify and mitigate potential transactional errors or fraud risks. Effective communication and problem-solving skills to address customer inquiries and resolve transactional issues promptly, contributing to a smooth and reliable banking experience for customers.
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Review and Reporting - The ability and skill to create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.
• Risk Management - The ability and skill to identify, assess, prioritize and manage risks and use with proficiency aligned software
• Verbal Communication - Ability to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
2 years of related experience preferred

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• Builds Effective Teams
• Balances Stakeholders
• Analyze Alternatives & Recommend Solutions
• Decision Quality
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Manages Ambiguity
• Plans & Aligns
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Strategic Mindset
• Review and Reporting
• Verbal Communication
• Financial Management Methods
• Business Insights
• Action Planning
• Financial Acumen
• Risk Management

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

Physical Demands Category: Office

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 position.

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

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