Ice Cream Transportation Planner

If you want to work for a global, leading Ice Cream player with €7.9bn Turn Over in 2023, come join Unilever Ice Cream! The Ice Cream business is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall’s, Magnum, Ben &Jerry’s. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025. Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered under a different ownership structure. As Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent as we build our diverse and inclusive culture. You will have ample options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
Transportation Planners move quickly within a challenging environment to support our customers and their strategic goals. This cross-functional position allows Planners to gain a rich understanding of both, our customers and the Supply Chain. Team commitment, on-going business engagement and breakthrough thinking will be required to evaluate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in an effort to identify distribution solutions that align Unilever and Customer strategies. Unilever offers a range of opportunities with a high focus on professional development and monthly reviews which will give you real responsibility from day one. The Unilever culture offers you an open, diverse, and collaborative work environment. We also provide the flexibility of agile work to meet your home-life balance.
Day to day you will be managing the transportation operations for 2 of our 10 US warehouses. You will be partnering with our Customer, Warehouse and Logistic partners to provide optimal on time service to our customers. You will also be balancing key KPI’s to drive efficiency and reduce costs. Strategically you will be evaluating losses and looking for trends to drive overall improvements across all metrics.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
•    Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Logistics from an accredited university
•    Minimum 1-3 years’ experience in Logistics/Supply Chain 
•    Strong understanding of order to cash process, deployment, warehousing, and/or transportation.
•    Strong communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of management 
•    Strong interpersonal and supervisory skills
•    Working knowledge with numerous systems including: SAP, OTM, Excel, LBC, PowerPoint, and Power BI

Skills
•    Logistics, Transportation, Process Improvement, data driven decision making, cost performance management, root cause analysis. 

Leadership
•    You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
•    As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
o    PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
o    PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
o    CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
o    PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
o    AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $58,700 to $86,280. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

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