Senior Transportation Planner
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Senior Transportation Planner
- Job/Office location: Hybrid remote in Minneapolis, MN
- Typical office environment – 50%
- Travel 10%/year
Careers that Change Lives
The Senior Transportation Planner is responsible for the management and oversight of the movement of goods across the Medtronic Global Supply chain.
In addition, the Senior Planner is responsible for managing our transportation providers and key partners to ensure the optimal balance of service, cost, and capacity. The planner will identify process improvements and drive meaningful changes across the business to improve service, while maintaining or lowering costs. The Senior Transportation Planner will manage the day to day execution of their assigned region/activity, as well as drive results across the transportation function and the supply chain.
In this role, the planner will assist in the creation of the load, perform optimization as needed, and manage the end-to-end execution of the shipment activities.
A Day in the Life
- Develops and implements transportation plans and policies
- Partners with internal/external stakeholders, builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives. Builds relationship with operational leaders to provide superior service; responds to feedback to create solutions to unique market requirements.
- Develop, implement, and lead on-boarding of new vendors, management policies, procedures, processes, and standards.
- Manage shipment exceptions, shipment prioritization and expedited shipments.
- Leverage systems and technology to manage transportation network. Identify and execute opportunities to improve processes, service and reduce freight spend.
- Support transportation related new functionalities and/or new systems implementations.
- Lead projects as assigned.
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