Transportation Specialist, Optimization

Transportation Specialist, Optimization

Job Description

As a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement.

You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

As a Transportation Specialist, you work cross-functionally to aid in delivery of the overall transportation strategy, which includes delivering the highest levels of carrier capacity, cost benefit, and service performance.  The candidate must have an exceptional understanding of transportation processes, systems and data, from procurement through execution.  They will have the business and financial acumen to identify process gaps through data and analytics and use them drive improvements across functions.

In this role, you will:


* Be responsible for transportation master data management and optimization including transit times, service grades, and customer/carrier restrictions.


* Analyze and optimize transportation processes, procedures and systems to ensure high levels of efficiency.


* Lead strategic initiatives and continuous improvement activities within CTT and cross-functionally supporting all businesses.


* Create and monitor new strategic initiatives that will deliver benefit across the organization.


* Participate in network design strategy meetings and provide feedback and data to help drive decisions.


* Keep leaders and stakeholders informed on status of plans and programs, changing conditions, requirements, issues, and accomplishments that may affect program delivery or key decisions.


* Make decisions that impact the entire (approx.

$600 MM) transportation spend.

About Us

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Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world.

In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact.

We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity.

It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

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Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion...