Job Information
Post Holdings Inc. Transportation Planner in Lakeville, Minnesota
Brand: Post Consumer Brands
Categories: Supply Chain
Locations: Lakeville, Minnesota
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Eligible: No
Req ID: 30445
Job Description
Business Unit Overview
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.
Brand
At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.
This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Overview
The Transportation Planner is responsible for the day-to-day management of freight and carrier execution throughout the supply chain. This position ensures that transportation is planned to balance service and cost, while maintaining strong relationships with carriers, customers and the Post Consumer Brands’ (PCB) supply chain. This position leverages data to develop logistics solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PCB to support company objectives.
This position interacts with:
Customer Operations – to meet and analyze customer expectations for on time delivery
Supply Chain Planning – to communicate costs associated with deployment and assist in repositioning
Distribution – to create shipping schedules that can be executed and act as a liaison with carriers
Purchasing – to meet delivery expectations of inbound materials and ingredients
Manufacturing Operations – to ensure appropriate equipment is available to most efficiently support plant production
Work Location and Hours:
Hybrid -
Onsite 3 days a week at our Lakeville, MN headquarters. Remote opportunity 2 days a week.
Weekend coverage required as well: 5-6 weekends a year and covering one holiday – hours are Saturdays and Sundays 8-5 and then would get one comp day the following week.
#LI-hybrid
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Customer Focus
Achieve and maintain alignment in the value chain between suppliers, PCB and the Customer
Effectively and efficiently manage freight orders by providing appropriate communication to PCB internal customers, PCB freight vendors (carriers) and PCB external customers.
Technical / Functional Expertise
Transportation Planning
Run transportation routing and scheduling plan daily, including Customer deliveries, plant transfers, inbound materials and other freight movements for the company.
Use the Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage capacity across carriers, lanes, PCB facilities, and customers to maintain service and cost metrics.
Local Facility Transportation Liaison
Support assigned facilities as a liaison between sites and freight vendors.
Manage trailer pools.
Provide information and analysis of Transportation metrics to Transportation Management, Supply Chain stakeholders and vendors.
Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators for freight vendors and manage vendor actions to improve upon these key metrics.
Technology – Provide feedback regarding system performance and offer solutions to improve systems, procedures, or operating standards.
Results
Create transportation plans that control costs, meet customer service requirements and manage transportation carrier capacity.
Report on key performance metrics, including but not limited to: On-Time Delivery to Request Date, and On-Time Delivery to 1st Appointment, On Time Pick Up and Primary Tender Acceptance
Identify and quantify opportunities in transportation and logistics to reduce supply chain costs and improve service.
Act
Develop strong relationships with transportation vendors and internal PCB contacts.
Proactively establish and implement countermeasures to negative performance trends, industry cycles and network disruptions.
Organization and People Development
Development – Develop yourself against the competency profiles for successful individual contributors at PCB.
Represent the PCB transportation function as a professional and viable resource for the company to customers, both internally and externally.
Qualifications
Skills Needed
Broad knowledge of logistics processes and planning systems.
Cost control, cost: benefit analysis and the implementation of productivity improvements.
Good communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrated good business judgment; good understanding of economic principles affecting decisions related to transportation.
Good understanding of modes of transportation (over-the-road full truckload, intermodal and less-than-truckload), shipping lanes and material handling.
Ability to use technology as a decision support tool.
Education
4-year college degree REQUIRED. Preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, or applicable field of study.
Experience
One to three years’ experience operating in a supply chain-planning environment in areas of operations, materials management, transportation planning, carrier management or warehousing.
The pay range for this position is $59,423 - $83,191 per year.
Overview
The Transportation Planner is responsible for the day-to-day management of freight and carrier execution throughout the supply chain. This position ensures that transportation is planned to balance service and cost, while maintaining strong relationships with carriers, customers and the Post Consumer Brands’ (PCB) supply chain. This position leverages data to develop logistics solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PCB to support company objectives.
This position interacts with:
Customer Operations – to meet and analyze customer expectations for on time delivery
Supply Chain Planning – to communicate costs associated with deployment and assist in repositioning
Distribution – to create shipping schedules that can be executed and act as a liaison with carriers
Purchasing – to meet delivery expectations of inbound materials and ingredients
Manufacturing Operations – to ensure appropriate equipment is available to most efficiently support plant production
Work Location and Hours:
Hybrid -
Onsite 3 days a week at our Lakeville, MN headquarters. Remote opportunity 2 days a week.
Weekend coverage required as well: 5-6 weekends a year and covering one holiday – hours are Saturdays and Sundays 8-5 and then would get one comp day the following week.
#LI-hybrid
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Customer Focus
Achieve and maintain alignment in the value chain between suppliers, PCB and the Customer
Effectively and efficiently manage freight orders by providing appropriate communication to PCB internal customers, PCB freight vendors (carriers) and PCB external customers.
Technical / Functional Expertise
Transportation Planning
Run transportation routing and scheduling plan daily, including Customer deliveries, plant transfers, inbound materials and other freight movements for the company.
Use the Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage capacity across carriers, lanes, PCB facilities, and customers to maintain service and cost metrics.
Local Facility Transportation Liaison
Support assigned facilities as a liaison between sites and freight vendors.
Manage trailer pools.
Provide information and analysis of Transportation metrics to Transportation Management, Supply Chain stakeholders and vendors.
Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators for freight vendors and manage vendor actions to improve upon these key metrics.
Technology – Provide feedback regarding system performance and offer solutions to improve systems, procedures, or operating standards.
Results
Create transportation plans that control costs, meet customer service requirements and manage transportation carrier capacity.
Report on key performance metrics, including but not limited to: On-Time Delivery to Request Date, and On-Time Delivery to 1st Appointment, On Time Pick Up and Primary Tender Acceptance
Identify and quantify opportunities in transportation and logistics to reduce supply chain costs and improve service.
Act
Develop strong relationships with transportation vendors and internal PCB contacts.
Proactively establish and implement countermeasures to negative performance trends, industry cycles and network disruptions.
Organization and People Development
Development – Develop yourself against the competency profiles for successful individual contributors at PCB.
Represent the PCB transportation function as a professional and viable resource for the company to customers, both internally and externally.
Skills Needed
Broad knowledge of logistics processes and planning systems.
Cost control, cost: benefit analysis and the implementation of productivity improvements.
Good communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrated good business judgment; good understanding of economic principles affecting decisions related to transportation.
Good understanding of modes of transportation (over-the-road full truckload, intermodal and less-than-truckload), shipping lanes and material handling.
Ability to use technology as a decision support tool.
Education
4-year college degree REQUIRED. Preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, or applicable field of study.
Experience
One to three years’ experience operating in a supply chain-planning environment in areas of operations, materials management, transportation planning, carrier management or warehousing.
Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)