What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Planner position at Unilever?
ABOUT UNILEVER
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our, collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centres around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
JOB PURPOSE
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are motivated and empowered to provide exceptional service at competitive costs to support the overall strategic direction of the Unilever network, then this role is just for you!
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 10 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.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Logistics from an accredited university
- Minimum 1-3 years’ experience in Logistics/Supply Chain
- Strong understanding of order to cash process, deployment, warehousing, and/or transportation.
- Strong communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of management
- Strong interpersonal and supervisory skills
- Working knowledge with numerous systems including: SAP, OTM, Excel, LBC, PowerPoint, and Power BI
- Logistics, Transportation, Process Improvement, data driven decision making, cost performance management, root cause analysis.
- You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
- As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
- Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
o PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
o CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
o PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
o AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
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.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal and Pay Transparency Non discrimination Provision.
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Salary : $58,700 - $86,280
