Transportation Planner

2 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Sonoco Full time

Reporting directly to the Logistics Operations Manager, the Transportation Planner is primarily responsible for planning and scheduling transportation for specified Sonoco plants and suppliers while also managing our suppliers to drive operational excellence.

What you'll be doing:

  • Be actively involved in resolving service issues, supporting the business units’ requirements, and participation in division planning sessions.
  • Plan, tender, and monitor (tracking and tracing) carrier shipments via TMS in accordance with department policy/procedure.
  • Work with other logistics functions to ensure the right carriers and the right capacity established on assigned lanes.
  • Be able to extract and manipulate data from the TMS or other platforms for financial analysis.
  • Develop/build reports from complex data sets for analysis and recommend actions. 
  • Meet productivity and customer service level targets.
  • Manage carrier performance to ensure performance is at or above target KPI’s.
  • Be able to balance the cost/service relationship, be an excellent communicator, and be able to manage multiple tasks at one time.
  • Coordinates the resolution of service complaints including through root cause analysis and developing corrective actions to prevent future service failures.
  • Cross train on other areas to help cover department resources appropriately as assigned by Manager.
  • Work closely with division stakeholders to drive cost effectiveness through problem solving and process improvement.
  • Other duties as assigned.

This position will be located in Manchester, UK

We'd love to hear from you if:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, SC, Finance, or related field.
  • 2 – 3 years Previous experience within transportation industry or logistics experience required.
  • Advanced knowledge and high proficiency using PC based applications.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Above average skills in Microsoft Suite required.
  • Experience with TMS required with OTM experience preferred.
  • Strong analytical abilities.
  • German and/or other European languages are preferred.

Compensation: 

The annual base salary range for the:

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