Transportation Planner (12 months contract)
Transportation Planner (12 months contract)
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Job Description
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
The Transportation Planner is responsible for the management and oversight of the movement of goods across the Medtronic Global Supply chain.In addition the Planner is responsible for managing our transportation providers and key partners to ensure the optimal balance of service cost and capacity. The planner will identify process improvements and drive meaningful changes across the business to improve service while maintaining or lowering costs. The Transportation Planner will manage the day to day execution of their assigned region/activity as well as drive results across the transportation function and the supply chain.
In this role the planner will assist in the creation of the load perform optimization as needed and manage the end-to-end execution of the shipment activities.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Develops and implements transportation plans and policies.
Partners with internal/external stakeholders builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives. Builds relationship with operational leaders to provide superior service; responds to feedback to create solutions to unique market requirements.
Develop implement and lead on-boarding of new vendors management policies procedures processes and standards.
Manage shipment exceptions shipment prioritization and expedited shipments.
Leverage systems and technology to manage transportation network. Identify and execute opportunities to improve processes service and reduce freight spend.
Proactively monitor and strive to maintain high level of quality accuracy and process consistency in the planning effort.
Support transportation related new functionalities and/or new systems implementations.
Partner with Transport planning team in other regions to ensure On Time Performance of cross regions shipments.
Lead projects as assigned.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 3 years experience in a Logistic Transportation role.
Knowledge of transportation operations and freight tendering / tracking processes.
Knowledge of various modes within the Transportation Industry
Experience with Transportation Planning and Optimisation is benefitial
Experience with TMS and Transport Operational Planning experience is benefitial
Experience working in a US multinational (matrix organization) is a plus.
Experience working within the healthcare environment is beneficial.
Supply Chain Management expertise
SAP Knowledge
DG knowledge Expertise
Data analytics skills.
Hands-on mentality
Self-starter with strong aptitude to think critically solve problems and drive improvements in a professional and respectful manner.
Ability to work with ambiguity
Skillful negotiator with strong ability to influence.
Ability to work within a team and cross-functionally/regions building relationships influence and collaborate with peers.
Resolve conflicts/discrepancies positively and professionally.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
Employment Type
Full-Time
