As an Inbound Logistics Coordinator, you'll optimize transportation strategies, manage carrier relationships, ensure compliance, and drive efficiency in the logistics process.
About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
Job Overview
We are currently seeking an ambitious Inbound Logistics Coordinator to join our Logistics and Material Planning team. You will be the main interface between Harbinger internal teams and its carriers (2PL/3PL/4PL).
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with material planners and procurement teams to develop and refine transportation strategies, ensuring seamless alignment with carrier tendering processes.
- Oversee a diverse panel of carriers across multiple transportation modes, including ocean, air, ground, and parcel, to meet organizational logistics needs efficiently.
- Ensure all supplier documentation is accurate, complete, and readily accessible to carriers and customs brokers, adhering to regulatory requirements and compliance standards.
- Coordinate the end-to-end shipment process, from booking to final delivery, ensuring real-time tracking and issue resolution.
- Manage claims related to lost, damaged, or delayed shipments, proactively mitigating risks and minimizing disruptions.
- Escalate transportation delays that pose a potential impact on production, implementing contingency measures as necessary.
- Identify and execute cost-reduction initiatives, such as freight consolidation and optimization of service levels, to drive operational efficiency.
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs), including Inbound and Outbound Logistics Costs, ensuring alignment with financial and operational targets.
- Hold carriers accountable for performance through structured governance frameworks, leveraging KPIs such as On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery rates and detention fee management, while conducting periodic performance reviews and business meetings.
- Lead the issuance of Requests for Quotation (RFQs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for standard transport lanes and specialized project cargo.
- Oversee the outbound shipment process, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of samples, engineering and service-related materials, return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), and finished chassis/stepvans.
Who You Are:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in logistics, with at least 1 year of international logistics experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, lookup formulas, and data analysis).
- Strong knowledge of Incoterms (mandatory).
- Basic understanding of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) import process.
- Hazmat certification/experience is preferred.
- Experience in vehicle shipping is a plus.
- Prior experience working with carriers is preferred.
- Familiarity with Oracle NetSuite and Transportation Management Systems (TMS) is a plus.
- Proficiency in Spanish and/or Mandarin Chinese is preferred.
Key Benefits & Perks:
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
- Early-stage Stock Options
- Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Wellness & Fertility Benefits
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens
California Pay Range
$80,000—$115,000 USD
Equal Opportunity
Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].
Candidate Data Privacy
Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.
Top Skills
Excel
Oracle Netsuite
Transportation Management Systems
Harbinger Garden Grove, California, USA Office
12821 Knott St, Garden Grove, CA, United States, 92841
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