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Air Freight Planning Liaison
TMC USA is seeking an Air Freight Planning Liaison to support North America transportation operations.
About The Member Company
We are a global high-tech consultancy company with a team of entrepreneurial engineers, scientists, and digital experts from around the world. Together we form a fast-growing and proud community. We offer consultancy services to high-profile clients globally in diverse service areas, such as:
- Technology & Engineering
- Energy & Renewables
- Life sciences & Pharma
- Digital & IT
About this vacancy
This role focuses on evaluating and minimizing domestic and international airfreight usage, ensuring compliance with internal processes, and supporting cost-effective and sustainable transportation planning.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Act as process owner for the airfreight approval workflow, ensuring compliance and proper cost allocation
- Review and validate tactical airfreight requests, confirming necessity and coordinating with requestors
- Identify non-compliant airfreight usage, calculate cost and CO₂ impact, and report findings to leadership
- Analyze open purchase orders and partner with Planning teams to proactively reduce airfreight reliance
- Maintain transportation master data to ensure accurate freight cost estimates and transit times
- Conduct monthly cost allocation reviews with Finance
- Collaborate with Planning to develop airfreight forecasts and discuss capacity with carriers and freight forwarders
- Translate forecasts into transport handling units, weights, and dimensions
- Analyze forecast versus actual utilization and work with Planning to improve accuracy
- Partner with International Transport Operations and Procurement to identify hybrid or alternative transport solutions
- Develop KPIs to monitor airfreight usage and define triggers for corrective action
- Support development of internal tools to streamline the airfreight approval process
- Assist with ad-hoc project support as needed
What we expect from you
- 3–5 years of experience supporting air and ocean transportation
- Strong planning, analytical, and communication skills
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Bilingual capability is a strong plus
What you can expect from us
This is a W2 hourly contract position paying $40/hour, with no benefits, offering consistent full-time hours and a clear scope of work. You’ll gain hands-on experience supporting large-scale transportation and supply chain operations, with direct exposure to planning, finance, and logistics stakeholders. TMC USA provides structured onboarding, ongoing support throughout the assignment, and the opportunity to build strong, market-relevant experience.
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