Senior Transportation Analyst

Kenvue is currently recruiting for a:

Senior Transportation Analyst

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Role reports to:

Manager Transportation Operations

Location:

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit

Work Location:

Hybrid

What you will do

The Senior Analyst, Transportation Operations, is responsible for managing and optimizing a portfolio of transportation lanes ensuring consistent product availability and the highest levels of customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for sites and logistics providers to communicate issues affecting shipment flows, including but not limited to missing documentation, freight delays, quality events and shipping receiving delays.

• Collaborate with internal & external business partners, including Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing, and Carriers to deliver results across critical metrics owned by Transportation such as on-time delivery, cost improvement programs, freight spend performance vs. budget, security infraction rates, and quality deliverables.

• Lead operational activities to support carrier bids for various domestic and inter-region transport moves; including requirements, baseline validation and lane implementation to pre-established metrics.

• Lead/participate in operational vendor management meetings (business reviews, reporting on operational vendor performance) and lead day to day tactical relationship with the vendors

• Utilize data to develop analyses that uncover insights and opportunities; provide input and analyze strategic transportation supply chain requirements. Lead process improvement projects leveraging PM methodologies like Six Sigma, FPX, etc., to drive reliability and or cost efficiencies.

• Oversee specified transportation services, including freight management, strategic transportation analysis, compliance, claims, freight payment, import/export services, and deviations.

• Additional responsibilities include coordination, track & trace/exception management for assigned transportation lanes, and ad-hoc operational analytics to drive day to day business efficiencies

What we are Looking for

Requirement Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree required

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience required

• Experience in logistics, customer service, transportation, distribution, operations, supply chain, and/or information technology

• Intermediate Microsoft Office proficiency, including lookup & reference functions, conditional statements, and pivots

• Requires data analytics experience to successfully organize, analyze, and interpret data to identify opportunities and influence business operations

• Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully and work independently while demonstrating initiative

• Ability to work in fast paced environment with multiple priorities

• Strong intellectual curiosity and ability to embrace learning

• Ability to work in a matrix environment and work with different cultures

• Need to be comfortable challenging the status quo and navigate between different hierarchical levels while maintaining collaboration and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business results in optimizing business processes, through the use of various Data & Analytics tools

• Experience or thorough working knowledge desired with SAP, BW, Tableau, or Power BI; Alteryx, Qlik, or other data software is a plus

• Strong interpersonal and co