ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 200 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century-long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, life insurance covered by the company
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Two (2) weeks vacations
• Ten (10) paid holidays

POSITION SUMMARY

Under the direction of the Senior Transportation Manager, the Assistant Transportation Manager is responsible for the successful management and operation of the inbound and outbound freight. The position manages all inter-company transfers, outbound transportation services to all customers in the Americas, direct shipments from overseas to customers in Americas.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide operational leadership to logistics team and ensure the execution of daily tasks and activities including driver deliveries, loading/unloading of trailers, and customer service operations in a manner consistent with company services and cost objectives.
• Supervise logistics operations including customer service, freight loading and unloading, dispatch and proper documentation and procedure control.
• Handle all aspects of logging orders, routing, shipping and tracking outbound orders.
• Inform transporters for freight pick-up and ensure that cargo is routed appropriately.
• Prepare and verify bills of lading.
• Maintain high levels of customer service, and ensure complete orders are transported to meet distributor/customer needs.
• Confirm that all orders are shipping on time and reports schedule changes to appropriate parties.
• Monitor shuttle drivers and ensure driver activities are efficient and consistently moving.
• Monitors driver performance ensuring company’s policies including state, federal and DOT laws and regulations are in compliance. Enforces strict adherence to both State & Federal transportation rules and regulations.
• Performs management functions of staff selection, development, discipline and performance reviews.
• Conduct safety observations.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Problem Solving
• Action Oriented
• Drive for Results
• Planning & Organizing
• Customer Focus

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position directly supervises 4-5 other transportation staff.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each major responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major responsibilities.

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  EDUCATION, SKILLS and EXPERIENCE
  • High School Diploma required. At least five (5) years of hands-on experience in logistics environment or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • This position requires a customer-oriented, results driven, self-motivated, and self-confident individual with strong communication skills. Specifically, the individual must include solid knowledge of or experience in:
    • Intermodal transportation.
    • At least 3 years of working experience working with such as brokers/third-party logistics (3PL), freight forwarder and trucking company. Knowledge of Import/Export is helpful.
    • Coordinating logistics and shipping directly to large retail chains and distributors.
    • Handling a large number of orders.
    • Flow of supply chain & logistic processes - from order, invoices, to cash.
  • The individual must be able to define problems through data gathering and analysis, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
  • He/ she must be able to interpret a variety of instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

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  LANGUAGE SKILLS

• This individual must possess excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Spanish is preferred.

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  MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• The candidate must be able to apply mathematical concepts to compute rates, discounts, percentages, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Working knowledge of SAP (preferred), Word, Excel, etc. is required.

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  PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to perform daily job functions.
• Required to stand, sit, kneel, and walk when performing essential job functions.
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds.
• The position does not require travel out of the office.

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  WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The noise level in the work environment is light to moderate.
• The position is often in office settings or at the plant and warehouse locations.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 300 employees. We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.