Transportation Planner

Location: Hoboken, NJ

Outbound Transportation Planner

Background & Purpose of the Job

Become a part of 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 key strategic functions involved in the distribution of product to customers for approximately $€9.5B in turnover, annually.

Transportation Planners move quickly within a challenging environment to support our customers and their strategic goals. This cross-functional position allows Planners to gain a rich understanding of both, our customers and the Supply Chain. 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 Customer strategies. 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.

Day to day you will be managing the transportation operations for 2 of our 9 US warehouses. You will be partnering with our Customer, Warehouse and Logistic partners to provide optimal on time service to our customers. You will also be balancing key KPI’s to drive efficiency and reduce costs. Strategically you will be evaluating losses and looking for trends to drive overall improvements across all metrics.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

You’re a born leader: You understand the business priorities and leverage your business knowledge to align with customer needs to execute logistics processes with consistency. You will develop, implement, and lead the cross-functional, fully integrated processes that enable successful on-time delivery to our customers and align with our customers to achieve their strategic goals to build for continued growth.

You’re a storyteller: You will interact and build positive relationships with internal departments and external partners. Through leveraging business acumen, system knowledge and analytical strengths, you will lead open and strategic communication with internal and external stakeholders in relation to carrier capacity, seasonal inventory, volume spikes, and opportunities for synergy, strategy development and growth.

You’re a changemaker: You will collaboratively work with internal and external customers (Customer Service, Warehousing, Logistics Procurement, Logistics Operations and Carriers) to measure performance and improve KPIs to achieve business and customer service goals via reviews of on time performance, accessorial reduction, chargeback mitigation and proactive track and trace. Your collaboration and strength of relationships will support you in driving continuous improvement through determining root cause, developing and implementing sustainable solutions for long term success. 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 paradox navigator: You will identify critical issues and escalate appropriately, assemble opportunities and engage appropriate decision makers. Through leveraging acumen, your facilitation to gain cross functional alignment will drive the business in achieving best practices that can be shared with your peers. You will utilize your highly analytical skills using MS-Excel, SAP and Power BI.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

What do the minimum requirements look like?

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum 2 years in Logistics and Supply Chain (or 6 if no Bachelor's degree attained)

• 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. Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $58,700 to $86,280. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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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, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

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