Transport Coordinator - Brussels, België - Kimberly-Clark

    Kimberly-Clark
    Kimberly-Clark Brussels, België

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    Your Job

    You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

    About Us

    Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. And it takes the right people, in the right jobs and the right places, to make that happen.

    At Kimberly-Clark, you'll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There's no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark.

    About You

    As the Transport coordinator - Northern Europe, you will support in the control of a pan European full and part load road transport operation across Europe, managed by Kimberly-Clark's outsourced service provider (4PL). You will own the relationship and delivery of the contract with the third party (3PL) and fourth party (4PL) providers in Northern Europe, whilst giving direction, support and a collaborative approach to the wider UK & Western Europe team.

    You will be working collaboratively with the 4PL and the European transport manager to continuously improve, monitor and evaluate the cost and service of Kimberly-Clark`s transport activities and ensure that transport delivers against our ways of working. Furthermore, you will be working closely with the Kimberly-Clark European Supply Chain organization to improve processes which add value to the business and improves our position in terms of cost, cost savings and service, whilst innovating to ensure we improve our customer experience.

    You will report to the UK & WE Transport Sustainability Leader and will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

    Location: we can offer a remote model with some visits to Ede Office when needed, for candidates already based in the Netherlands.

    This is primarily Northern Europe based but has some European responsibility and there is some European travel involved.

    YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Owning the contractual delivery of the 3PL / 4PL service in Northern Europe, ensuring that the contractual obligations of both parties are met and devising local market strategies for tendering and service improvement
  • Continually monitoring service levels enacting strategies to address service failings on a corrective action, preventive action basis, whilst leading on problem solving through lean methodologies
  • Developing a technology and service improvement roadmap over the life of the contract with the 4PL
  • Building strong internal stakeholder networks within the supply chain, building transport forecasting models and tracking accuracy to forecast, ensuring that transport is integrated into their thinking
  • Controlling and reporting on the extra service requests, higher rate authorisation and additional costs within transport
  • Leading on cost transformation projects within transport and assist in sharing best practice across the wider European team
  • Providing contractual input to build win win scenarios when onboarding new suppliers, being actively involved in ensuring that Kimberly-Clark requirements are fully understood and realized

    • WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

  • Experience within a transport operation either in house or external, ideally managing complex 4PL contracts and supplier management within transport
  • Knowledge of EU transport legislation
  • Strong negotiation, prioritization skills
  • A good sense of team work and the ability to make decisions based on win win scenarios
  • English fluent, local language is a plus

    • We Offer

    Our employees value the opportunities for professional and personal growth which our company offers. Our employees appreciate both the open work environment and the global nature of our company and are always ready to take on new challenges. In addition we offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package. If you want a full overview of the many Benefits offered to Kimberly-Clark employees, go to .

    To Be Considered

    Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Recruiting Team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role.

    Please submit your CV in English as it will be considered by English speakers.

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    Primary Location

    Netherlands -Flexible Location

    Additional Locations

    Belgium -Brussels, Germany -Koblenz

    Worker Type

    Employee

    Worker Sub-Type

    Regular

    Time Type

    Full time