Sr Transportation Analyst

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At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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Your Role at Baxter

As a Transportation Sr Analyst you will be responsible for financial, operational and system analysis within the Logistics department. You will be the point of contact for validating and approving all departmental invoices, entering purchase requisitions as well as tracking and reporting on department spend. Responsible for building tools to support analytics and understanding cost to serve. In addition, a key component of this role is to analyze both operational and financial performance within the Logistics area and recommend improvements and proactively implement solutions designed to maximize asset utilization, drive costs out of the warehousing and transportation network and efficiently ensure customer service expectations are consistently attained.

What you'll be doing

3PL Management and Reporting

• Work directly with 3PL to review KPIs and identify gaps with aligned corrective actions

• Perform a variety of operational activities including the audit of freight bills, preparing and negotiating claims, and selecting and recommending carriers.

• Lead and participate in Monthly meetings where KPIs and project action plans are reviewed

• Lead and support QBRs with 3PL

• Support Operational Excellence/continuous improvement initiatives

• Work with 3PL to ensure spend is approved and tracked

Financial, warehousing and transportation operations

• Work with finance team to support preparation for the monthly financial and operational reviews with the 3PL provider.

• Compile and present monthly logistics dashboard including financial and service metrics as specified

• Identify and implement various VIPs designed to optimize costs across the distribution and warehousing network including off-schedule and expedite delivery mitigation

• Serve as a SME on assigned projects and tasks

• Support the commercial team in preparing customer RFP responses relating to logistics/distribution

• Provide total logistics support as required for all Baxter transportation and warehousing including frozen, chilled and ambient product.

• Coverage for Logistics Analysts as required

What you'll bring

• Bachelors Degree Preferred

• 3+ years experience in transportation, distribution or warehousing

• Logistics management operational expertise

• Intermediate to expert level of MS Excel

• Basic understanding of data import, manipulation and file/report development

• Detailed understanding of domestic and international logistics and transportation

• Strong process improvement and development

• Systems experience including routing, load planning and scheduling

• Strong ERP understanding as it relates to TMS, WMS and transportation and logistics planning

• Operations financial analytics capability

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $80,000 to $110,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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