Job Description

Position is Hybrid (3 days in Chester, NY office)

Company Overview:

Party City Holdings, Inc. is the largest party goods supplier and party retail chain in the world. We are also the country's premier retailer of Halloween costumes, accessories, and decorations. Party City Holdings is made up of two divisions, Party City Retail Group (PCRG) and AMSCAN Wholesale. At Party City Holdings, we like to have fun! We are helpful, passionate, and creative. We inspire our customers with exciting concepts, themes and ideas and provide everything they need to bring them to life. We make it easy to create unforgettable moments.

Job Overview

The Transportation Coordinator is responsible for supporting the Transportation Operations Manager in Inbound, domestic and international freight, managing 3PL providers, the carrier audit process, as well as invoice approvals and producing reports. The Transportation Coordinator is responsible for providing data to assist the annual budget creation, analyzing and providing feedback on performance of SLA targets, report on benchmarks and KPIs and provide input for corrective actions to meet KPI. Additionally, this individual will support daily operations for inbound freight, support 3rd party audit process, and work directly with key PCHI stakeholders to insure regulatory guidelines are adhered to.

Must embrace and present a Customer First, People Matter, It Can be Done and willingness to Celebrate focus at all times.

Core Accountabilities

• Provide reporting on tracking and visibility of shipments, provide daily reports on seasonal programs, and conduct daily processing of invoice data.
• Monitor and maintain visibility to daily shipments and communication any delivery issues or delays to the Store Communications and Distribution Center teams.
• Review reports, analyze vendor and financial performance, and provider volumes for visibility against performance and KPIs.
• Identify booking and service issues and advise Transportation leadership of reported issues to obtain resolution.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and vendors to ensure shipment and delivery plans are established and met throughout the year, with extra focus on peak weeks, Holiday weeks and special events.
• Review and analyze existing business practices, procedure and processes, with the goal of establishing benchmarks and standards; identify improvements to efficiencies, existing business processes and service levels.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as Finance, Merchandizing and Operations, to process any outstanding invoices, and review carrier A/R to ensure timely payments.
• Process rate changes to ensure new rates are updated in systems.
• Manage the daily reports and processes required to support seasonal distribution program and support the PCHI team in Asia to ensure success with current bypass programs
• Work with Compliance team to have vendors, 3PL to provide all supporting documents
• Other related duties as assigned