Transportation EDI Integration Project Manager

• 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.

• 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., * 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.

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area, Cynet Systems Inc. is a leading staffing and recruiting powerhouse. Proudly recognized as a nationally and locally certified diversity firm, Cynet delivers agile, scalable talent solutions across industries. With an active footprint in all 50 U.S. states and Canada, we support thousands of consultants through our expansive, high-performing recruitment engine operating across North America and Asia-ensuring speed, quality, and consistency in every hire.