Transportation Logistics Specialist

Job description

USN - Danone North America Inc, a subsidiary of Danone, is looking for a Transportation Logistics Specialist in United States (US) forBroomfield!

Danone is a global food company holding top positions in healthy food through its four businesses: Fresh Dairy Products, Early Life Nutrition, Waters, and Medical Nutrition. Its mission, bringing health through food to as many people as possible, embodies commitment to human progress and business success. It gives meaning to the work of our 100,000 Danoners worldwide on an everyday basis.
For passionate people looking for autonomy and exciting career opportunities, Danone truly has something special inside.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:   The Transportation Logistics Specialist will plan, consolidate and schedule outbound customer deliveries; inbound materials and finished goods between Whitewave plants, DCs and co-manufacturers using knowledge of carrier regulations and requirements to ensure domestic and international shipments meet customer requirements, arriving safely and in a cost effective manner.   Analyze carrier performance to requirements and service expectations; provide fact based suggestions for cost and service improvements.  Collaborate across total customer supply chain team on improvement initiatives which enhance the total customer experience.

 

RESPONSIBILITES:

Transportation & Logistics Management

·  Plan and tender full truck load (FTL) single drop loads and consolidates less than truck load (LTL) orders maximizing utilization while reducing cost per lb. 
·  Arrange domestic and international freight utilizing optimal routing to assure required level of customer service is received at the lowest rates. 
·  Focus on cost effectiveness and priority customers.  Responsible for executing against annual transportation budget per region, to make least cost decisions. 
·  Key transportation liaison for all Whitewave plants and DCs.  Responsible for mitigating issues causing delays in customer delivery, inbound materials and finished goods re-supply at all Whitewave plants, suppliers and co-manufacturers.
·  Responsible for tracking carrier’s process compliance from tender to reporting delivery
·  Monitor issues outside normal business hours insuring timely deliveries to customers and mitigate additional costs. 
·  Monitoring and follow up on adherence to pick up appointments.
·  Follow up on carrier activities not accomplished at appointed time to obtain updates/current status, discuss options for meeting customer requirements with Customer Logistics team, determine balanced resolution between service and cost, execute against plan.

 

Distribution Cost Management

·  Using weekly/monthly KPI reporting identifies service improvement/ cost reduction opportunities.  Recommends and implement adjustments to processes to optimize transportation spend.
·  Provide volume forecasts to carriers to assure capacity available to meet customer demand.
·  Maintaining inbound and outbound routing guides.
·  Analyze and approve rate change requests.
·  Assessorial Management

 

Service, Productivity & Process Improvement

·  Identify, collaborate and implement continuous improvement projects to elevate service levels to customers. Identifies opportunities to innovate, improve service and/or reduce cost.  Analyzes opportunities, develops recommendations and implements process improvements that deliver results.
·  Drives cross functional collaboration with Supply Chain, Customer and Field Sales to achieve supply chain efficiencies.
·  Support Customer Service and Logistics KPI's by monitoring carrier adherence to making both pick up and drop appointments within specified time frame and customer lead times.
·  Communicates potential delays to Customer Logistics team member and revised delivery appointments. 
·  Develops and maintains process and procedure documentation. 
·  Develops and maintains training content; plans and provides training to new hires.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Education and Experience:

 

·  SAP and Lean Logistics experience preferred
·  Bachelor’s Degree required (3-5 years relevant experience and/or 1-3 years internal experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
·  12 months progressive Customer Service, Logistics or Transportation experience required

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

·  Demonstrated experience in Excel, Order Fulfillment & Management, Transportation, Pricing Structure and the Credit and Returns process required
·  Demonstrated experience or relevant knowledge in the following areas:  Lean Logistics or Third Party TMS, SAP OTD experience in Order Processing and Logistics, Forecasting, Planning, Inventory Management, Warehousing Management preferred
·  Understanding of DOT rules and regulations
·  Ability to develop work instructions, training material and presentations
·  Must be able to work well in a self-managed team environment. This includes cooperatively scheduling work, vacation, hours and team task assignments
·  Ability to apply a logical, creative and comprehensive approach to problem solving
·  Capacity to comfortably interact with all levels of the business and customers to deliver results in a fast-paced environment
·  Judgment to resolve issues with the appropriate sense of urgency including after standard business hours support
·  Ability to maintain productivity and professionalism while under pressure to meet strict deadlines and balance multiple priorities; Displays attention to detail for both accuracy and content
·  Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to analyze issues, develop corrective actions or continuous improvement process, align stakeholders to implement the change and communicate the outcome
·  Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

For more information about Danone, its people and its business, please visit danone.com. We have something special inside, do you?
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The Dannon Company is a US-subsidiary of Danone, a Fortune 500 company and one of the most successful health-focused food companies in the world with leading positions in fresh dairy products, water, baby nutrition and medical nutrition.  Danone’s mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible.

Our core values foster individual professional growth. We reward entrepreneurialism and innovation. There truly is something very special inside our company. You can see it reflected in our people, our products and our culture. If you like what you have learned, we encourage you to apply and learn more.

Dannon is an equal employment and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other unlawful criterion.

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