Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to escalate in the US and around the world, we are committed to keeping our teams and their families as our greatest priority. To that end, we are making some adjustments to the way we will be doing business in the upcoming weeks.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to keep our employees and customers safe, and would love to have you on our team as we can continue to serve our communities.

Home Chef is hiring a Logistics Coordinator to assist with the planning and tendering of retail and e-commerce shipping loads. This person will be communicating directly with warehouse teams, shippers, drivers and internal stakeholders. You will play an important role to make sure our products get from point A to B and resolve issues that may arise.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Responsibility Area:
• Actively track and trace all shipments scheduled for pick up and in transit
• Log rates and assist Accounts Payable with reconciling invoices
• Troubleshoot delays and other loading, in-transit and delivery issues quickly and confidently
•  Proactively communicate issues to internal and external partners where appropriate
• Secure capacity and tender loadsUse internal tools to communicate forecasted load information to all parties for truckload and LTL shipments
• Ensure brokers or carriers have NDAs, transportation agreements and other requirements like insurance in place
• Coordinate load plans internally and with all third party contacts
• Create reports on transportation cost, utilization and other KPIs
• Manage claims and other exceptional items as required
• Maintain data within internal tools
• Weekend Shift: Saturday & Sunday 8:30 - 4:30pm + 3 Week Days (Flexible schedule)

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Highly autonomous and proactive
• Strong verbal and written communicator and negotiator
• 1+ year logistics and/or transportation experience required
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Mastery of spreadsheet usage (excel, google sheets)Strong ability to multi-task and flexibly switch between tasks, detail orientation
• Strong sense for numbers in a business context e.g., prices, spend
• Willingness to travel to plant locations and suppliers as necessary (