Summary
Results-driven Single Carrier Specialist with expertise in negotiating contracts and managing vendor relationships. Proven ability to reduce transportation costs while maintaining service quality. Committed to optimizing routing efficiency and enhancing operational performance.
1
Certification
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Single Carrier Specialist
4 Years 9 Months- Dispatch & Terminal Operations: Managed dispatch activities via Transportation Management (TM) systems; monitored container discharges to coordinate timely vendor appointments, ensuring zero demurrage/detention charges by strictly adhering to port and rail free-time limits.
- Carrier & Vendor Management: Evaluated vendor KPIs, reallocated loads based on performance benchmarks, and systematically phased out underperforming carriers to optimize lane reliability.
- Rate Negotiation & Procurement: Negotiated competitive spot and contract rates with third-party vendors to secure cost-effective transportation capacity for Maersk containers.
- Cross-Functional Logistics Support: Partnered with the diversion team to validate route feasibility, enhancing cross-functional agility and network responsiveness.
- Cost Optimization & Process Innovation: Pioneered a standardized triangulation (street-turn) workflow by repurposing import containers for export moves, boosting quarterly cash flow by approximately $80K.
- Financial Integrity & Audit: Arrested revenue leakage by auditing vendor accessorial charges, submitting credit memos, and recovering overpaid funds resulting from improper invoice approvals.
- Stakeholder Reporting & Analytics: Prepared and presented weekly data-driven dashboards to senior stakeholders to align operational goals, build relationships, and bridge process gaps.
- Team Leadership & Performance: Led post-execution review initiatives, consistently achieving all monthly KPI targets, while spearheading team-building activities to drive engagement and morale.
Accounts Payable Associate
1 Year 6 Months- Processed and validated high-volume customer concession requests utilizing case management systems and SAP, maintaining 100% policy compliance and accurate data verification prior to final approval.
- Resolved complex customer concession cases within strict SLA timelines, driving high accuracy rates and ensuring uninterrupted transaction flow.
- Prepared and parked journal entries on a quarterly basis in SAP, directly supporting the accurate and timely month-end and year-end financial book closures.
- Maintained audit-ready data integrity across financial records, mitigating compliance risks and streamlining audit reviews during close activities.
- Executed critical financial adjustments, including overpayment resolutions, ledger reconciliations, and SAP error corrections, in full compliance with internal controls and client policies.
- Achieved core performance metrics and processing targets under tight turnaround times, demonstrating high adaptability during high-volume periods.
- Collaborated across cross-functional teams to negotiate, prioritize, and reallocate workloads effectively, optimizing team throughput and operational efficiency.
- Managed administrative workflows and documentation handling, generating key financial reports to streamline departmental reporting and record-keeping.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
Skills
Advanced Excel
VBA / Excel Macros
Stakeholder Management
Dashboard using Power BI
Vendor Management
Continues Process Improvement
Certification
- Data Analysis Dashboard Associate using Power BI.
- MIS Reporting Business Modeling Specialist using MS-Excel.
- Certified Advanced Excel Associate.
Timeline
Single Carrier Specialist
Maersk Global Service Centre
01.2022 - Current
Accounts Payable Associate
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2015 - 07.2016
Loyola College
Bachelor of Science from Biotechnology