Transportation Specialist - Englewood Cliffs, United States - Unilever
Description
Background & Purpose of the Job
Become a leader in a winning distribution operations team named top in the industry consistently since 2012 by Gartner, Inc. This fast paced, constantly evolving role offers you the opportunity to manage internal and external relationships with the key strategic functions involved with building, managing, and growing relationships with carriers as well as keeping at the forefront of an ever-changing industry.
This role moves quickly within a challenging environment to support the business and its on time goals. This cross-functional position develops the strategic vision for our Specialists to gain a rich understanding of our Supply Chain and the transportation industry. Team commitment, on-going business engagement and breakthrough thinking will be required to evaluate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in an effort to identify distribution solutions that align Unilever and partner. Unilever offers a range of opportunities with a high focus on professional development and monthly reviews which will give you real responsibility from day one. The Unilever culture offers you an open, diverse, and collaborative work environment. We also provide the flexibility of agile work to meet your home-life balance.
Who You Are & What You'll Do
You're a changemaker: The partnerships you build with carriers will be a competitive differentiator for Unilever. You will collaboratively work with internal and external customers to measure performance and improve the KPIs on many reports and processes. You will demonstrate strong bias for action and drive accountability to quickly action business continuity plans and/or deviations from best practice and identify and execute efficiency opportunities; either through driving savings or making recommendations for better ways of working.
You're a born leader: You will develop and maintain relationship within logistics as well as with carrier partners to drive cross-functional, fully integrated processes that enable successful carrier performance and partnership. You hear messages from the business and galvanize your Carriers by translating business goals into strategic initiatives to achieve the ambitions. You have a passion for experimenting and record of encouraging others to do the same.
You're a dot connector: You will develop and drive strong relationships with internal and external partners to enable success across Unilever's network by gathering and analyzing data to drive continuous improvements for KPIs across the organization; such as on-time pick-up, delivery and cost reduction. Through leveraging both your market and business acumen, you can find patterns and anticipate challenges to put robust mitigation plans in place. Your collaboration and strength of relationships will support your team to better determine root cause, develop and implement solutions and monitor to ensure success.
You're a storyteller: You can hold straight, honest, and motivating discussions to drive development across Carriers and stakeholders. You can go beyond presented information to see relationships across issues to simplify business needs into required action. You will be required to develop a continuous improvement culture and improve ways of working such that you and your Carriers have open and strategic communication; in relation to carrier capacity, seasonal inventory, volume spikes, and opportunities for synergy and growth. Strong communication and clear articulation of the reasons to believe will ensure delivery of your strategic vision to stakeholders.
You love to win and have fun doing it: You are motivated and empowered to provide exceptional service at competitive costs to support the overall strategic direction of the Unilever network. This position requires the ability to develop and coach Carriers into partners that grow competitively with business ambitions.
What You'll Need to Succeed
What do the minimum requirements look like?
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience.
• Preferred 4 years in Logistics and Supply Chain (or 8 if no Bachelor's degree attained)
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of management
• Strong interpersonal and supervisory skills
• Experience using advanced Microsoft Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint and comfort using integrated computer systems
What else is critical to your success? Your attitude. You love to work in an evolving and fast-paced environment and are a master at juggling multiple priorities with pressure to deliver on-time. You'll have an innate ability to translate numbers into stories and discuss them with a multitude of audiences. But most of all, you want to improve everything you touch, whether it be processes, problem solving or creative ways of being proactive.
What We Can Offer You
Culture for Growth ) | Top Notch Employee Health & Well Being Benefits ) | Every Voice Matters ) | Global Reach ) | Life at Unilever ) | Careers with Purpose ) | World Class Career Development Programs ) | Check Out Our Space ) | Focus On Sustainability )
Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.
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Job Category: Supply Chain
Job Category: Chaîne d'approvisionnement
Job Category: Supply Chain
Job Type: Logistics Specialist
Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals