Job Title:  CBS Transportation Planner

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164225 - Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

Main Purpose:
Coordinate all logistic activities, ensuring service excellence and meeting customer expectations while managing costs and driving efficiencies. Activities include managing daily transport activities, establishing/maintaining good relationships with internal/external partners, and ensuring accurate reporting, invoicing and pallet administration. 
(The Transport planner must maintain good relationships with Customer Service, the Warehouses, countries, and carriers)

Main responsibilities:

• Plan, negotiate and execute daily transport activity for Finished goods and POS material 
• Daily activity: booking, confirmation of transport, tracking and pre-warning call, planning, resolving issues, follows up with warehouses on planning and capacity.
• Manage peaks, month/quarter ends with extra focus and effort to achieve company goals
• Identify short term actions with carriers in order to avoid / minimize customer and cost impact
• Submit and follow up on freight claims, review / set actions with carriers : credit for damages, insurance coverage
• Work with customer service coordinators and local Hill’s organizations to insure that transportation daily operations are satisfactory and support them on daily tasks
• Work with countries / customers in order to optimize transport modes, order patterns and co-loads.
• Prepare KPI reports by country / customer / carrier for review with transport manager and carriers
• Manage monthly pre-invoices and review freight bills with Finance when needed
• Create, update and follow SOP for the area of given responsibility
• Manage pallets activity : administration, outbound, stock, costs, reporting, relation with supplier(s), warehouses and countries
• Meet transport budget, improving processes and finding cost efficiencies

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of proven experience
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Results oriented approach
• High degree of accuracy and attention to details
• Team oriented and problem solving approach
• Proficient in English is a requirement
• Solid understanding and working experience with SAP is an advantage
• Good knowledge of MS Excel, G-suite

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.

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