About this role
Key Responsibilities
Route Planning & Optimization
- Perform daily route planning based on available orders, delivery locations, and vehicle capacity.
- Generate optimized routes using last-mile routing platforms
- Ensure optimal allocation of orders across available trucks and drivers.
- Balance orders across trips based on capacity, route duration, distance, and operational constraints.
- Review and validate route sequences, stop allocations, and delivery priorities.
- Identify opportunities to reduce truck utilization and improve route efficiency.
Capacity & Resource Management
- Monitor vehicle capacity and utilization across different markets and regions.
- Manage last-minute changes in truck counts and vehicle capacity.
- Rebalance orders when additional orders are received or vehicles become unavailable.
- Ensure vehicle capacity and route constraints are maintained during planning.
Route Execution & Issue Management
- Monitor route generation and planning completion within defined cut-off times.
- Investigate missing orders, sequencing issues, route delays, and planning failures.
- Coordinate with technical teams to resolve system and integration issues.
- Perform route adjustments, stop resequencing, and trip-level changes when required.
- Ensure successful integration of route IDs and stop sequences with downstream systems.
Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate with regional operations, dispatch teams, and technical support teams.
- Communicate route planning status, operational risks, and escalations.
- Support users with routing platform issues and process-related queries.
- Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
Required Skills
- Strong understanding of last-mile transportation and route planning
- Experience with route optimization or Transportation Management Systems FarEye, Locus, similar platforms
- Understanding of vehicle capacity, delivery windows, service time, route duration, and driver/shift constraints
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (good with MS Excel/ Reporting)
- Ability to make time-sensitive decisions during routing cutoffs
- Strong communication and coordination with Operations, Technology, carriers, dispatchers, and drivers
- Ability to work in a high-volume environment with strict operational deadlines
Preferred Experience
- Experience in large-scale last-mile delivery operations.
- Knowledge of route optimization algorithms and planning constraints.
- Experience with ADP, FarEye, TMS, or other transportation platforms.
- Understanding of API integrations and order interfaces.
- Experience managing multiple markets or regions.
- Exposure to automation and operational KPI improvements.
- 3 to 6 years relevant experience.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in commerce, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
Shift Timings
- US Shift
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