Description

As stated in the Land O'Lakes Job Posting policy, all employees who post for an internal opening must inform their current manager at the time they apply. ​

Our growth relies on our extraordinary talent. Unlock your greatest potential at Land O'Lakes by continuing to make a difference, driving results and growing your career.

Logistics PlannerThe Transportation Planner role is a job position where you will partner with multiple cross-functional teams such as warehousing, customer service, deployment, sales, marketing, etc to support operational excellence within Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition and WinField United divisions.

Responsibilities and activities include planning outbound and inbound transportation, track and trace shipments for on-time performance, leveraging transportation technology tools to improve load visibility, facilitate internal conversations with transportation buyers regarding capacity, carrier service issues, etc.

Transportation will offer you the opportunity to learn about the industry by providing you formal and informal training, work with many cross-functional teams, identify projects that will create a win/win situation for your career development and for our department.

The Transportation Team is located in Arden Hills, MN and focuses on planning/execution of outbound and inbound freight from around 290 US facilities and shipping locations.

Manage transportation events and enhance carrier utilization to ensure on-time deliveries and customer satisfaction.

Facilitate all Transportation related activities, such as understanding freight bill payments and assisting Accounts payable in resolution, entering Transportation claims.

Coordinate, direct and own decision-making processes necessary to accomplish service goals and objectives

Create and foster strong relationships with internal and external business partners such as material resource Planners, distribution centers, manufacturing personnel, customer service representatives and carrier providers.

Ensure that issues are addressed quickly and professionally

Identify and implement continuous process improvements by strategically develop, recommend, cost savings and/or service improvement programs


Qualifications:
Ability to multi-task in high pace environment.

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Adaptability and flexibility.

Experience with TMS systems.

Detail oriented and highly organized.


Required Experience:
4-year degree or higher in Business, Supply Chain or Logistics.

1+ Years of comparable Logistics experience.

Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word).

Preferred Experience
OTM (a plus)

FourKites (a plus)


DAT
PowerBI

Grade:

E5