Freight Operations Associate

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About the Role
Calling all 2021 Graduates! This is a full time position starting in Q1 of 2022. Looking for candidates who have graduated in the past 6-12 months.
The Uber Freight Rotational Development Program is an exciting opportunity to grow critical operations and leadership skills, positioning you for a successful career at a fast moving tech company like Uber Freight. You'll acquire skills through on-the-job learning in key operations roles at Uber Freight on a rotating basis. This role is designed to develop comprehensive knowledge of the business, and expand skills such as stakeholder engagement, logistics knowledge, business acumen, project management, and more. The 2 year rotation includes training and professional development resources throughout. This rotational role will also expose you to key aspects of working for a tech company like product training, how to work with product teams, and the environment of fast paced innovation. The role is a 2 year commitment, comprised of four 5.5 month rotations through key non-technical teams. Role examples include:

  • Customer Success
  • Tracking
  • Account Management
  • Carrier Sales
  • Sales

What You'll Do
While each role has different responsibilities, there are consistent high level themes throughout all jobs. Take a look below for some highlights of each role's responsibilities.
Carrier Sales

  • Use service and relationship building skills to manage existing carrier partners
  • Bring new transportation partners onto the platform to increase active Uber Freight app users
  • Work with carrier partners to continually seek new solutions for their logistics challenges
  • Actively manage the quality of our transportation partner base


Account Management

  • Work with shippers to continually seek new solutions for their logistics challenges
  • Develop process and system improvements to continually raise the bar of execution for customers
  • Participate in the development, implementation and automation of critical business processes and tools used to track sales process, forecasting, pipeline management and performance
  • Serve as a partner to our sales team, anticipating challenges and presenting solutions to support Uber Freight's business objectives


CSX

  • Identify Customer trends at a lane and load level
  • Address customer escalations and perform necessary follow up to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Action all inquiries (Financial, Product, Account Support) from internal and external stakeholders
  • Perform day-to-day shipping activities for customers along with other duties as assigned


Tracking

  • Use our "Load Board" to monitor live Uber Freight loads from creation to delivery
  • Stay organized and ahead of schedule ensuring that loads are moving without issue during the many stages of transit
  • Use multiple platforms (phone, chat, text, email) to contact carriers and all parties involved in each load
  • Triage issues and loop in key colleagues as needed


All roles:

  • Be resourceful, scrappy, and get things done
  • Work collaboratively across all teams who interact within the lifecycle of a load to ensure strong execution
  • Always think about how to do things better, faster, more efficiently and at a fair cost
  • Ensure that all freight is moved on time and a fair cost
  • Be dedicated to seeking out and solving freight related operational issues
  • Be able to speak to core operational and growth metrics with the management team
  • Develop process and system improvements to continually raise the bar of execution
  • Manage any issues that come up in the normal operation of freight


Basic Qualifications:

  • You must have graduated within the past year or before Feb 2022.
  • Time-management skills - you'll be balancing multiple issues at once to efficiently resolve a large number of inquiries
  • Ability to investigate and troubleshoot problems efficiently
  • The ability to flourish and collaborate in a work environment where we learn from one another and continuously improve processes on behalf of users
  • Agility - you can move quickly with attention to detail and accept change while absorbing new information with ease. This is especially important in a rotational role such as this.
  • To be an Uber evangelist - you are a proponent of the product and services Uber Freight provides, and you're able to get others motivated to partner with us
  • Strong team player
  • Ability to balance attention to detail with swift execution
  • Self starter & strong work ethic
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems under pressure
  • Ability to collaborate and work with a highly diverse set of shippers, transportation partners, and internal partners


Additional Benefits

  • Participants will be invited to complete a logistics executive education certificate through a partner university at the end of their 2 years in the program.
  • Multiple development paths layered on top of core learning comprised of mentorship, training, and project work in areas such as;
    • Analytics
    • Product
    • Leadership
  • Role placement after the completion of the 2 years, based on performance
  • Mentorship throughout 2 year period
  • Professional Development Spend available on an annual basis
  • Senior leadership visibility
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