What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Planner position at Post Consumer Brands?
Business Unit Overview
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Brand
Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Overview
The Transportation Planner is responsible for the day-to-day management of freight and carrier execution throughout the supply chain. This position ensures that transportation is planned to balance service and cost, while maintaining strong relationships with carriers, customers and the Post Consumer Brands’ (PCB) supply chain. This position leverages data to develop logistics solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PCB to support company objectives.
This Position Interacts With
Skills: Broad knowledge of logistics processes and planning systems. Cost control, cost: benefit analysis and the implementation of productivity improvements. Good communication and presentation skills. Demonstrated good business judgment; good understanding of economic principles affecting decisions related to transportation. Good understanding of modes of transportation (over-the-road full truckload, intermodal and less-than-truckload), shipping lanes and material handling. Ability to use technology as a decision support tool. Skill in prioritizing workloads and stress management.
Management Skills: Collaboration, decision-making, problem solving, results orientation, ability to establish clear objectives for self; ability to identify and evaluate tactical methods to achieve objectives; identify deviations from plan and facilitate resolution. Ability to handle confidential information appropriately. Ability to focus on Transportation strategies that meet our internal and external customer requirements.
Qualifications
Education
4-year college degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, or applicable field of study.
Experience
One to three years’ experience operating in a supply chain-planning environment in areas of operations, materials management, transportation planning, carrier management or warehousing.
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Brand
Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Overview
The Transportation Planner is responsible for the day-to-day management of freight and carrier execution throughout the supply chain. This position ensures that transportation is planned to balance service and cost, while maintaining strong relationships with carriers, customers and the Post Consumer Brands’ (PCB) supply chain. This position leverages data to develop logistics solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PCB to support company objectives.
This Position Interacts With
- Customer Operations - to meet and analyze customer expectations for on time delivery
- Supply Chain Planning - to communicate costs associated with deployment and assist in repositioning
- Distribution - to create shipping schedules that can be executed and act as a liaison with carriers
- Purchasing - to meet delivery expectations of inbound materials and ingredients
- Manufacturing Operations - to ensure appropriate equipment is available to most efficiently support plant production
- Customer Focus
- Achieve and maintain alignment in the value chain between suppliers, PCB and the Customer
- Effectively and efficiently manage freight orders by providing appropriate communication to PCB internal customers, PCB freight vendors (carriers) and PCB external customers.
- Technical / Functional Expertise
- Transportation Planning
- Run transportation routing and scheduling plan daily, including Customer deliveries, plant transfers, inbound materials and other freight movements for the company.
- Use the Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage capacity across carriers, lanes, PCB facilities, and customers to maintain service and cost metrics.
- Local Facility Transportation Liaison
- Support assigned facilities as a liaison between sites and freight vendors.
- Manage trailer pools.
- Provide information and analysis of Transportation metrics to Transportation Management, Supply Chain stakeholders and vendors.
- Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators for freight vendors and manage vendor actions to improve upon these key metrics.
- Technology - Provide feedback regarding system performance and offer solutions to improve systems, procedures, or operating standards.
- Results
- Create transportation plans that control costs, meet customer service requirements and manage transportation carrier capacity.
- Report on key performance metrics, including but not limited to: On-Time Delivery to Request Date, and On-Time Delivery to 1st Appointment, On Time Pick Up and Primary Tender Acceptance
- Identify and quantify opportunities in transportation and logistics to reduce supply chain costs and improve service.
- Act
- Develop strong relationships with transportation vendors and internal PCB contacts.
- Proactively establish and implement countermeasures to negative performance trends, industry cycles and network disruptions.
- Organization and People Development
- Development - Develop yourself against the competency profiles for successful individual contributors at PCB.
- Represent the PCB transportation function as a professional and viable resource for the company to customers, both internally and externally.
- Other - Perform other projects, tasks and services as required or assigned.
Skills: Broad knowledge of logistics processes and planning systems. Cost control, cost: benefit analysis and the implementation of productivity improvements. Good communication and presentation skills. Demonstrated good business judgment; good understanding of economic principles affecting decisions related to transportation. Good understanding of modes of transportation (over-the-road full truckload, intermodal and less-than-truckload), shipping lanes and material handling. Ability to use technology as a decision support tool. Skill in prioritizing workloads and stress management.
Management Skills: Collaboration, decision-making, problem solving, results orientation, ability to establish clear objectives for self; ability to identify and evaluate tactical methods to achieve objectives; identify deviations from plan and facilitate resolution. Ability to handle confidential information appropriately. Ability to focus on Transportation strategies that meet our internal and external customer requirements.
Qualifications
Education
4-year college degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, or applicable field of study.
Experience
One to three years’ experience operating in a supply chain-planning environment in areas of operations, materials management, transportation planning, carrier management or warehousing.
