Strategic Supply Chain Specialist – Strategic Transport and Empties Management

Bachelor’s degree in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university preferred, or equivalent related experience

Ability to identify and solve problems, to work within deadlines with a high attention to detail, and to work independently in a fast paced, dynamic environment

Strong business acumen and the ability to influence and develop strong working relationships with colleagues, senior level management and/or executives, vendors, suppliers, etc.

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation delivery

·         Must have broad understanding of purchasing principles

·         Advanced computer skills, especially in MS Office

·         Advanced experience with SAP transportation management (TM) and logistic business network (LBM) modules preferred

·         Advanced level experience with expedited freight tool preferred

Essential Duties

·         Primary Contact for definition of specifications of the external supply chain.

·         Define process, methods, and volume plan to tender external freight providers together with non-production materials (NPM) purchasing.

·         Collaborate with purchasing to find best possible service providers for transportation, empties management, and warehousing.

·         Support implementation of new freight forwarding companies.

·         Define standard processes and tools to support the operational logistics and plants.

·         Lead logistic cost and performance improvement projects and initiatives.

·         Develop ideas and concepts to improve transport and returnable empties processes.

·         Collaborate with plants and development areas to define best practice processes.

·         Collaborate with operational logistics to implement new processes and identify areas of improvement.

·         Explore and analyze data to identify areas of improvement and show improvement.

·         Act as third level escalation for logistics issue to support process problem solving.

·         Support cost improvement CIP and PPI workshops to realize short term savings.

·         Support management initiatives with logistics, freight, and returnable knowledge.

·         All other duties and projects as assigned.