Transportation Planner

Transportation Planner

The Transportation Planner role is a job position where you will partner with multiple cross-functional teams such as warehousing, customer service, deployment, sales, marketing, etc to support operational excellence within Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition and Winfield United divisions.

Responsibilities and activities include planning outbound and inbound transportation, track and trace shipments for on-time performance, leveraging transportation technology tools to improve load visibility, facilitating internal conversations with transportation buyers regarding capacity, carrier service issues, etc.

Transportation will offer you the opportunity to learn about the industry by providing you with formal and informal training, working with many cross-functional teams, identifying projects that will create a win/win situation for your career development and for our department.

Position Purpose:

Do you enjoy making moving parts come together? If so, a career as a Transportation Planner may be a fit for you.

The Transportation Team is located in Arden Hills, MN and focuses on planning/execution of outbound and inbound freight from around 290 US facilities and shipping locations.


* Manage transportation events and enhance carrier utilization to ensure on-time deliveries and customer satisfaction.


* Facilitate all Transportation related activities, such as understanding freight bill payments and assisting Accounts payable in resolution, entering Transportation claims.


* Coordinate, direct and own decision-making processes necessary to accomplish service goals and objectives.


* Create and foster strong relationships with internal and external business partners such as material resource Planners, distribution centers, manufacturing personnel, customer service representatives and carrier providers.


* Ensure that issues are addressed quickly and professionally.


* Identify and implement continuous process improvements by strategically develop, recommend, cost savings and/or service improvement programs.

Required Experience & Education


* 4-year degree or higher in Business, Supply Chain or Logistics.


* 1+ Years of Logistics experience or related field.


* Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word).

Required Competencies & Other skills


* Ability to multi-task in high pace environment.


* Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.


* Strong problem-solving skills.


* Must be comfortable with conflict management while maintaining strong internal and external relationships.


* Adaptability and flexibility.


* Experience with TMS systems.


* Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Experience


* OTM (a plus)


* FourKites (a plus)


* Sonar


* PowerBI

Salary: $61,360 - $92,040.

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