Transportation EDI Integration Project Manager

We are looking for Transportation EDI Integration Project Manager - Onsite for our client in Austin, TX.

Job Title: Transportation EDI Integration Project Manager

Job Location: Austin, TX

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience in transportation, supply chain systems, or logistics technology.
• Direct experience working on carrier EDI and API integrations.
• Strong understanding of common transportation data flows and message types.
• Proven ability to manage cross functional teams and external partners without direct authority.

Responsibilities:

• Lead onboarding for common transportation messages, such as load tender, shipment status, appointment scheduling, and freight invoice.
• Ensure data mapping aligns with Blue Yonder TMS structures and operational workflows.
• Lead electronic document exchange integration and plan unit testing, end to end testing, and operational validation with carriers.
• Proactively escalate risks and delays with impact-based recommendations.
• Partner closely with transportation planners, execution teams, and freight pay/audit to confirm integrations solve real operational problems.
• Ensure carriers are onboarded in a way that supports timely tendering and acceptance, accurate shipment visibility, reduced manual work and exceptions, and clean billing.
• Develop and execute cutover strategies that minimize disruption to daily shipping.
• Work with Logistics Analytics team to develop and track onboarding metrics such as carrier compliance and go live success rate.
• Identify opportunities to standardize carrier integrations and reduce custom work.
• Support future TMS enhancements, carrier expansions, or regional rollouts.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on knowledge of transportation operations, including how planners and execution teams use TMS inputs and outputs.
• Experience working with or implementing Blue Yonder TMS.
• Experience onboarding dozens of carriers across multiple modes, domestically and internationally.
• Experience supporting TMS implementations, upgrades, or large transportation transformations.
• Experience with electronic document transmission to and receipt from logistics providers.

Skills:

• Execution focus: drive work to closure.
• Operational credibility: demonstrate trust with stakeholders.
• Structured thinking: bring order to messy carrier onboarding reality.
• Clear communication: translate between IT, carriers, and business.
• Risk based decision making: know when 'good enough to go live' is better than perfect.
• Project Management Skills: develop and manage project plan.