Position Summary:

Support transportation-related project administration and freight execution by creating, entering, auditing, and routing Coupa requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, and approvals. Maintain accurate transportation project, vendor, shipment, and financial support data while partnering with business owners, carriers, suppliers, finance, and approvers to resolve exceptions and keep transportation work moving.

Key Responsibilities:

- Create, enter, and maintain Coupa requisitions for transportation-related projects, services, freight support, and vendor work as directed by business owners.
- Convert approved requisitions into purchase orders, validate coding and supporting documentation, and coordinate updates when scope, vendor, dollar amount, or timing changes.
- Enter, review, and audit transportation-related invoices for accuracy against purchase orders, contracts, project documentation, freight support records, and expected charges.
- Route requisitions, purchase orders, invoice expectations, and approval requests to the correct transportation, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders.
- Track open requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, exceptions, and approvals to help ensure timely resolution and accurate project financial visibility.
- Maintain Coupa records, project support files, vendor information, shipment or lane references, and audit documentation needed for transportation project reporting follow-up.
- Support inbound or outbound freight coordination, carrier communication, TMS updates, and shipment issue resolution when needed for transportation projects.
- Prepare operational and financial summaries related to transportation projects, managed freight, route performance, invoice status, and approval aging.
- Identify data, invoice, routing, coding, and approval issues; escalate discrepancies and recommend process improvements to reduce rework and cycle time.
- Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment
- Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner
- Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information




- Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues

Qualifications/Skills :

- Other college degree or 1+ years of related experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, procurement, finance support, accounts payable, or project coordination.
- Coupa experience required or strongly preferred, including requisition entry, purchase order support, invoice review, exception follow-up, and approval routing.
- Microsoft Office proficiency required; TMS, JDA fleet management, One Network, i-Trade, procurement applications, and Kroger web applications preferred.
- Strong attention to detail with ability to audit documentation, validating coding, follow approval workflows, and communicate clearly with transportation, finance, procurement, carriers, and suppliers.

Kroger Leadership Model:

Some of the Leadership Behaviors needed to successfully perform this position are:

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are committed to creating an environment of respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity for all. We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our ability to serve customers and communities effectively. We seek to attract, develop, and retain talent from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to contribute and grow. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This commitment reflects our broader purpose to serve people, support communities, and create an workplace where individuals can do their best work.

- Puts the Customer First - Anticipates customer needs, champions for the customer, acts with customers in mind, exceeds customers expectations, gains customers trust and respect.




- Communicates effectively and candidly - Communicates clearly and directly, approachable, relates well to others, engages people and helps them understand change, provides and seeks feedback, articulates clearly, actively listens.
- Achieves results through teamwork Is open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable, involves others to accomplish individual and team goals.
- Leads through positive influence Demonstrates robust character; builds partnerships; models a conscious balance between work and personal life; takes personal responsibility for own development; role models leadership qualities such as motivation, inspiration, passion and trust.
- Coaches and develops others - Develops and cares about associates, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback.
- Leads change and innovation - Challenges the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about which ideas will work.
- Executes with excellence - Is action oriented, drives for results, sets clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, can be counted on to consistently meet or exceed goals.
- Provides transparent and strategic direction - Plans and organizes well, sets a transparent and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities, has the ability to visualize and plan for the future, understands the industry and marketplace.
- Safety Awareness -Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employee safety; upholding safety standards.

Talent Value Proposition statement:

At Kroger Capability Center India, your expertise becomes part of something bigger. Work alongside global teams, build capabilities across critical business functions, solve meaningful challenges, and help shape how Kroger operates and grows. As the center takes shape, you have the opportunity to contribute early, learn continuously, and see the connection between your work and the millions of customers Kroger serves.

📌 Logistics Operations Specialist I (India)
🏢 Kroger Capability Center
📍 India