Associate Logistics Planner Location Arden Hills, MN : Associate Logistics Planner Imagine what you can do at Land O'Lakes. Our growth relies on extraordinary talent and boundless thinkers who are always looking for a better way and believe anything is possible. Like you, innovation and technology drive us. At Land O'Lakes, you will also be part of a community with creative doers and dreamers, who want to make a difference. We work together combining our global perspective and direct access to the source to create practical, new solutions to meet agriculture's toughest challenges.
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: The 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.
Position Purpose: Do you enjoy making moving parts come together? If so, a career as a Transportation Planner may be a fit for you.
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 a 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
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We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
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