What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Associate (REMOTE) position at Nestlé Health Science?
As a leader in the science of nutrition, Nestlé Health Science believes in empowering healthier lives for patients and consumers through a rich product portfolio featuring top brands such as Garden of Life®, Nature’s Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Nuun®, Persona Nutrition®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more, as well as through Aimmune Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies to prevent, manage and treat food, GI and metabolic-related diseases.
Our team members are challenged to make a genuine impact and play an integral role in driving the business forward. We embrace a dynamic culture that always puts the consumer first, and where ownership, accountability and agility are celebrated at every level. To help our people thrive, we offer expansive career growth potential, the opportunity to work alongside and learn from talented colleagues with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, and a range of best-in-class benefits.
We have more than 11,000 employees around the world, and products available in over 140 countries.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
The responsibility of the Transportation Associate is to ensure operational success of freight orders by supporting the planning objective of building and maintaining mode-optimal and actionable load plans, ensuring load-level compliance, providing coverage oversight, performing risk management activities, and supporting cost and service targets.
To support this objective the Transport Associate will be responsible for a one or multiple of areas of focus including initial load creation, appointment capture/recapture activities, meeting predefined constraints present within the Nestle physical logistics network, and collaborating with partners both internal and external to Nestle to identify solutions that maintain continuity in T-Hub operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with external (non-Nestlé) providers, Nestlé value chain partners, and T-Hub colleagues to develop robust load plans, including ensuring utilization is optimized for freight order creation as opportunity permits
- Coordinate with external (non-Nestlé) providers, Nestlé value chain partners, and T-Hub colleagues to manage reschedule requests and escalate scheduling anomalies
- Perform daily activities and complete demand requirements in accordance with timing and cutoff rules defined by T-Hub
- Execute upon T-Hub strategies and the aligned strategies of partner E2E flows while balancing cost and service targets during daily issue resolution and risk mitigation activities
- Maintain continuous focus on ensuring that all transportation planning/scheduling activities are driven by the goal of achieving on time delivery to the STA date or STA window for all customer orders.
- Provide event reporting data to facilitate stakeholder visibility, drive personal role accountability, and escalate issues as they relate to T-Hub success
Requirements & Skills:
- 1-3 years of experience coordinating activities across multiple internal and external departments.
- 1-3 years of experience with domestic Transportation modes and equipment.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience working in transportation required.
- Strong Knowledge of MS Office applications, Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Excellent problem solving skills: able to work under pressure while prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
- Organized and detail oriented.
- Prior experience working with both LTL and FTL providers.
- Must possess a clear understanding of the basic principles of both LTL and FTL operations.
- Must understand lane and mode transit times to assist in proper load building tasks. Must understand if load plan and mode selection will meet required customer delivery dates
- Some travel may be required
Expected high performance behaviors:
- Exhibit positive attitude regarding work and responsibilities
- Ability to work collaboratively within teams
- Ability to maintain effectiveness during major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusting effectively to within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
- Continuously look for ways to do things faster and better, while maintaining high quality standards
- Is creative and intellectually curious; tries different and novel ways to solve obstacles
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