Route Planner

Johnson Brothers is a multi-generational family-owned wine, beer, and spirits distributor in the United States. Founded by Lynn Johnson in 1953, the company remains committed to its founding values of work ethic, passion, innovation, teamwork, excellence, and integrity. Through forging strong partnerships with top-tier suppliers globally, Johnson Brothers offers an exceptional portfolio of world-class brands to customer partners across 17 states. With a dedicated team of 3,800, Johnson Brothers remains committed to delivering excellence and continued growth across its operations. For the second consecutive year, Johnson Brothers has been honored as one of the Most Trustworthy Companies in America by Newsweek.

Explore exciting career opportunities at Johnson Brothers across a range of functions. Whether your expertise lies in accounting, finance, customer service, sales, trade development, or information technology, we have opportunities tailored for you. Join us and be part of a dynamic team driving innovation and excellence in the beverage industry.

For more information about Johnson Brothers, please visit johnsonbrothers.com, or visit the company on Instagram and LinkedIn.

This position is responsible for routing outgoing orders according to pre-existing route guidelines. Also, this position establishes priorities and schedules deliveries in a manner consistent with customer service goals.

Job Description:

Specific Duties:

• Reviewing customer orders
• Select standardized delivery routes based on destination, shipment size, equipment, and customer time requirements
• Communicate daily with Ryder maintenance crew to determine available working equipment for each route.
• Control driver, truck, and route productivity by ensuring that each truck carries a full load. Utilize equipment and drivers to full potential.
• Coordinate with invoicing team that all reships, POS, and graphics are accurately routed.
• Develop batches and coordinate the truck loading with the night warehouse staff.
• Maintain and distribute daily delivery log containing start times, driver, and equipment required for each delivery route.
• Complete all daily and periodic maintenance activities in the routing platform, including but not limited to, adding customer locations, open/close times and delivery time windows.
• Perform analysis to determine opportunities for greater efficiency and serviceability related to delivery days, geographic locations, volume, customer open/close times, customer service times, driver cost, and equipment cost.
• Forecast and adjust seasonal/holiday delivery routes.
• Other duties as required and requested by management
  
  

Position Requirements:

• 4 year BA/BS college degree (highly preferred)
• 2+ years related experience preferred
• Experience with Routing Software preferred, Omnitracs/Solera a plus
• Computer proficiency with Microsoft (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and Internet applications
• WMS and Mainframe experience preferred
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

Johnson Brothers is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and equal treatment in employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender/gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, military status or any other basis in protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Johnson Brothers makes employment decisions based solely on the basis of qualifications for the job.

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time