Transportation Planner
Reynolds Consumer ProductsOverview
Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. Are you looking to build a strong career? Then we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Transportation Planner to join our team located at our corporate headquarters in Mavern, AR.
Responsibilities
Your Role:
As a Transportation Planner, you will plan the freight for the company while also balancing customer service requirements, ensuring carrier compliance, and maintaining cost effectiveness.
You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
- Performs initial load planning and routing for all outbound transport orders at assigned facilities; reschedules and adapts load profiles as necessary.
- Coordinates with customers, sales, warehouse and logistics personnel to ensure most cost effective routing and carrier assignments.
- Examine truckload combinations to maximize full cube utilization, ensure most effective routing, and prevent transport of duplicate orders.
- Actively work to improve freight costs, provide timely tender of transport orders to carriers and manage carrier response to transportation requests.
- Resolve problems associated with product distribution between customers, customer service and carriers.
- Monitor freight payment service for assessorial charges and proper billing.
- Work with procurement on scheduling inbound truckloads to control costs and utilize core carrier equipment and capacity.
- Work with Supply Chain when planning promotions to determine cost effective shipping org.
- Supply quotes for CVTK pickup allowance customer requests and specialty group pre-pay and add shipments.
- Supervisory responsibilities for Receiving Utilities (6 People).
- System Development around scrap materials receiving.
You will love it here if…
- You put safety first, always.
- You listen, learn, and evolve.
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals.
- You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity.
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities.
Qualifications
We need you to have:
- BA/BS degree Logistics or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in production planning, scheduling, inventory control, manufacturing or distribution operations in a multi facility environment.
Icing on the cake:
If you answer yes to the following…we want to meet you!
- Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
- Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on?
- Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
- Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first?
- Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection?
- Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo?
Want to know more? Check out our website or connect with us on LinkedIn!
Apply today to join a fast-growing innovative company!
Not a good fit but know someone who is? Please refer them.
Local candidates only, no relocation assistance available
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Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!
For applicants or employees who are disabled or require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may request assistance by emailing us at Recruitment@ReynoldsBrands.com.
No recruiter calls or emails please.
RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.