Transportation Consultant
Posted 2 days ago by eTeam
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Tadworth, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Transport Consultant role involves providing internal consulting and operational support for transportation and outbound logistics processes across EMEA, focusing on SAP-enabled processes. The position acts as a liaison between Logistics Operations and IT, supporting business continuity and transformation initiatives. Key responsibilities include process consulting, training, and continuous improvement of transportation systems. The role requires a strong background in logistics and SAP, with a focus on enhancing operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as subject matter expert for transportation processes.
- Provide consultancy to Logistics Operations, DTS, and Managed Services for issue resolution and root cause analysis.
- Ensure adherence to standardised transportation and logistics execution processes.
- Develop and maintain transportation process and system training materials.
- Deliver training to key users and end users on existing and newly implemented functionality.
- Support business readiness during enhancements, releases, and large system upgrades.
- Propose and validate transportation-related process and system enhancements.
- Lead business design, testing, and implementation of approved enhancements.
- Apply LEAN methodologies to drive efficiency and standardisation.
- Provide SME input to strategic transportation and logistics projects.
- Support or lead projects prioritised by process councils or transformation programmes.
- Support business integration testing for large-scale system changes.
- In-depth knowledge of end-to-end business processes and SAP.
- Experience with transportation management systems and their integration with other supply chain systems.
- Ability to support SAP-enabled logistics execution processes and issue resolution.
- Understand S/4HANA impacts on transportation and logistics execution processes.
- Act as business counterpart for S/4-driven design and process decisions.
- Support end-to-end scenario testing (order to delivery to freight settlement).
- Identify process versus system gaps arising from S/4 standardisation.
- Contribute to UAT, cutover, and hypercare activities from a logistics perspective.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years relevant logistics or supply chain experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders across business and IT.
- Experience working in cross-functional and multicultural environments.
- Essential to have previous SAP experience along with strong transportation process knowledge.
- Previous substantial experience in end to end transport execution in SAP/TMS.
- Degree-level education preferred.
- Fluent English required; additional languages beneficial.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Tadworth
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Transport Consultant
Location: Tadworth, KT20 7NS, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 12 Months
Work Model: Remote
Summary:
- The Transport Consultant provides internal consulting, process design, and operational support expertise for transportation and outbound logistics processes across EMEA.
- The role supports business continuity, standardisation, and transformation initiatives by acting as a bridge between Logistics Operations and IT (DTS), with a strong focus on SAP-enabled end-to-end processes.
Key Accountabilities – Transportation Process & System Consulting
- Act as subject matter expert for transportation processes.
- Provide consultancy to Logistics Operations, DTS, and Managed Services for issue resolution and root cause analysis.
- Ensure adherence to standardised transportation and logistics execution processes.
Training & Operational Support
- Develop and maintain transportation process and system training materials.
- Deliver training to key users and end users on existing and newly implemented functionality.
- Support business readiness during enhancements, releases, and large system upgrades.
Continuous Improvement & Enhancements
- Propose and validate transportation-related process and system enhancements.
- Lead business design, testing, and implementation of approved enhancements.
- Apply LEAN methodologies to drive efficiency and standardisation.
Project & Transformation Support
- Provide SME input to strategic transportation and logistics projects.
- Support or lead projects prioritised by process councils or transformation programmes.
- Support business integration testing for large-scale system changes.
SAP & Digital Capabilities – Current State
- In-depth knowledge of end-to-end business processes and SAP.
- Experience with transportation management systems and their integration with other supply chain systems.
- Ability to support SAP-enabled logistics execution processes and issue resolution.
SAP S/4HANA Capabilities – Future State
- Understand S/4HANA impacts on transportation and logistics execution processes.
- Act as business counterpart for S/4-driven design and process decisions.
- Support end-to-end scenario testing (order to delivery to freight settlement).
- Identify process versus system gaps arising from S/4 standardisation.
- Contribute to UAT, cutover, and hypercare activities from a logistics perspective.
Experience & Skills
- Minimum 5 years relevant logistics or supply chain experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders across business and IT.
- Experience working in cross-functional and multicultural environments.
- EMEA based; travel to sites may be required.
- Essential to have previous SAP experience along with strong transportation process knowledge, SAP enabled execution (order to delivery, freight) and the ability to act as a business counterpart to DTS
- Previous substantial experience in end to end transport execution in SAP/TMS.
Education & Languages:
- Degree-level education preferred.
- Fluent English required; additional languages beneficial.