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Solutions Consultant
Company | Flexport |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $95000 – $118000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with a persistent, proactive, results-oriented mindset
- Ability to effectively drive integrations between Flexport, our customers and the ERP, TMS, WMS and / or systems they rely on
- Familiarity with transmission protocols (FTP, SFTP, AS2, etc.), payload / file formats (JSON, XML, delimited files, etc.)
- Work well with cross-functional teams and provide project leadership
- Initiative and positive attitude with a desire to learn and seek answers independently
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects with organizational and time-management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or relevant work experience
- 3+ years of work experience
- Willingness to travel (up to 25%)
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end delivery for common integrations including purchase order, booking, advanced shipping notification, shipment milestone, freight invoice and more
- Participate in functional requirements gathering and own project requirements design, functional testing and operations impact deliverables for complex integration projects
- Share functional insights and nuances about different freight forwarding scenarios that might impact a given customer’s integration with Flexport Ecosystem peers
- Collaborate with the Account Management and Global Operations teams to review, update and socialize SOP changes for integrated customers
- Work closely with Solutions Engineers to create the business objects (Quotes, Bookings, Shipments, Invoices, etc..) necessary to facilitate integration testing across various functional scenarios
- Facilitate User Acceptance Testing across end-users including the customer and Client Solutions ensuring successful testing and approval prior to integration go-live
- Partner with Client Solutions in your region / time-zone to help drive successful adoption of integrated solutions, assist in triage / diagnosis of integration issues, and aggregate feedback to recommend improvements / feature requests to applicable teams
- Partner with Account Executives in your region/time-zone, ensuring they have requisite support in navigating integration related requests from their customers throughout the pre-sales process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with EDI X12 and EDIFACT
- Experience working with APIs
- Experience with data analytics, data manipulation and system integrations
- Supply-chain, logistics, or operations experience