Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abacus Service Corporation is seeking a Logistics Proposal Specialist to support its Inquiry-to-Order organization. The role develops logistics strategies, transportation concepts, cost estimates, risk assessments, and proposal content during the bidding phase, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure executable logistics offerings and successful project handoffs.
Responsibilities
- Support logistics activities during the Inquiry-to-Order (ITO) phase for domestic and international projects
- Assist in developing logistics content for customer proposals, tenders, and RFQ responses
- Participate in bid review meetings and customer clarification discussions as required
- Prepare logistics scope narratives, assumptions, exclusions, and commercial qualifications
- Develop preliminary transportation concepts for heavy haul, breakbulk, containerized, rail, and multimodal shipments
- Prepare budgetary transportation estimates using market intelligence, historical data, and carrier quotations
- Coordinate budgetary pricing from freight forwarders, carriers, heavy haul providers, ports, terminals, warehouses, and specialty service providers
- Support transportation feasibility studies, route assessments, and logistics execution planning
- Develop preliminary logistics schedules, delivery assumptions, and milestone planning to support project execution strategies
- Identify logistics risks, constraints, permitting requirements, infrastructure limitations, and schedule impacts
- Review preliminary packing lists, shipping drawings, and equipment dimensions to validate transportation assumptions
- Document logistics assumptions, exclusions, and commercial qualifications for proposal submissions
- Support value engineering initiatives by identifying cost-saving opportunities and alternative transportation solutions
- Collaborate with Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, Commercial Operations, and Logistics Strategy teams during proposal development
- Support the evaluation of Incoterms, delivery strategies, and customer logistics requirements
- Ensure logistics assumptions, pricing, schedules, and execution strategies are properly documented for project handoff
- Participate in transition meetings to ensure a seamless transfer of logistics information from ITO to Order-to-Remittance (OTR) upon project award
- Maintain budgetary pricing databases and logistics estimating tools
- Support development of standard estimating templates, bid checklists, and logistics planning tools
- Assist in documenting lessons learned and incorporating best practices into future proposals
- Promote standardization and continuous improvement within the ITO logistics process
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
- • 5 years of experience in logistics, transportation, freight forwarding, supply chain, or project logistics
- • Experience supporting transportation planning, freight estimating, or proposal development
- • Understanding of domestic and international transportation modes and logistics operations
- • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- • Logistics planning and transportation strategy
- • Cost estimating and budget development
- • Analytical and problem-solving skills
- • Commercial and financial awareness
- • Risk assessment and mitigation
- • Project coordination
- • Cross-functional collaboration
- • Communication and presentation skills
- • Time management and prioritization
- • Attention to detail
- • Continuous improvement mindset
- • Experience supporting capital equipment, energy, industrial, or infrastructure projects
- • Knowledge of heavy haul, oversized cargo, breakbulk, rail, ocean freight, and project logistics
- • Familiarity with Incoterms, import/export documentation, customs processes, and international shipping
- • Experience reviewing engineering drawings, packing lists, and shipment specifications
- • Knowledge of logistics cost estimating and commercial proposal development
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- 12-month contract
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