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-Are you a Contract Logistics Transport Planning Specialist? Do you want to work in the largest logistics company of the world?
Your Role
Contract Logistics Transport Planning Specialist works within Contract Logistics. In this case, She/He will operate for adidas Campus South, our new fully automated warehouse located in Mantua, which, with over 130,000 square meters, will represent an unparalleled example of excellence and innovation in automated technology operations. Contract Logistics Transport Planning Manager will be part of the Customer Service team but will strictly collaborate with Flow Planners and Operation department to manage properly carriers and transportation services. Her/His main goal will be to manage her/his team about the scheduling and organization of all trucks arrivals/departures to guarantee a proper workflow of inbound and outbound departments. In addition, She/He will interact constantly with the customer to get updated information about transportation needs and consequently align the transport strategy.
Your Responsibilities
In line with customer service guidelines and direction, plan daily deliveries of customer's goods in collaboration with flow planning stakeholders by using TMS/OTM (transport management system)
To operate smoothly, provide and get information from/to Operation departments regarding workflow status, issues, delays and/or advances; whereupon adapt transports schedule by considering current workflow situations
Working with a statistical and metric approach, supervise the status of transport services and define strategies to avoid critical delays
In accordance with operation and other departments related to the local business, implement, and execute specific actions to solve transportation issues which could compromise the warehouse workflow
Build and empower a strong relationship with transport carriers’ partners based on daily interaction and timely communication to perform efficiently the transport planning strategy
Identify and elaborate easy to understand solutions (reports, dashboards, slides, extc …) to show information downloaded from TMS and other transportation tools to inform and update different types of stakeholders
Your Skills and Experiences
2 years of transport planning experience in large scale (>300FTE & >50 trucks/day) highly automated fulfilment operations with strong preference given to eCommerce / Fashion / Retail field, preferably in multinational companies with matrix organizational structure
Familiarity with fast paced work environments with high level of planning variations and characterized by frequent interactions with customers and/or external stakeholders which required solid communication skills
Exposure to dashboard data representations with the aim of creating easy to understand ways to communicate information to different stakeholders
Accumulated wisdom about metrics and data analysis related to transport planning as practice with software’s and/or ERPs/TMSs
Good Reasons to Join
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