# Freight Pay Specialist

Position Overview: The Freight Pay Specialist works directly with supply chain, finance, and logistics procurement to ensure Ascend’s third party Freight Payment and Audit system functions seamlessly and as per the agreed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). This position will ensure that freight payments to carriers are processed within terms to avoid credit issues. The position will also be responsible for distributing invoices with exceptions to the proper internal approvers. Targeted Outcomes: Establish and maintain a disciplined carrier account management process that ensures Statements of Account are reviewed regularly, payment discrepancies are resolved promptly, and carrier relationships remain in good standing without service disruptions. Develop expertise in Ascend’s freight payment, audit, and approval processes while serving as the primary point of coordination between carriers, internal stakeholders, and third-party Freight Audit & Payment providers to ensure accurate and timely invoice processing. Own and standardize the Demurrage & Detention (D&D) invoice management process, ensuring invoices are validated, approved, disputed when appropriate, and submitted for paymen

- **Id**: 4089817
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ascend-performance-materials-freight-pay-specialist>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T19:54:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T19:54:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5802
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Plastics & Polymers, Chemical Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1958719
- **Name**: Ascend Performance Materials
- **Domain**: ascendmaterials.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ascendmaterials>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T19:54:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T21:36:23Z

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