Transport Specialist

Job Title

Transport Specialist

Job Description

Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips*. Employees may request a reasonable accommodation. *Montana employees are currently excluded from this requirement at this time.

If you are a Colorado resident and this role is a field-based or remote role, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. You may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.

The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to

Oversee the transport infrastructure to ensure that all Philips products reach each customer within the contractual agreed lead times, at the most cost-effective service, un-damaged and at the correct destination. The Transport specialist draws up and maintains the transportation plan for finished products within a medium-term time frame, calculates transport capacity, and obtains and analyzes data from the transport system.

You are responsible for (but not limited to):

• Management of shipment visibility and in-transit activities, destination customs arrival (completeness of documentation and pieces/ship units), as well as cross-dock and multi leg coordination
• Execution and re-planning in the event of exceptions/disruptions in planned shipments
• Managing order consolidation opportunities, emergency/expedited orders, and return flows
• Interfacing with Service Providers (carriers, Freight Forwarders, Customs Brokers),
• Identifying optimal route opportunities (e.g. x-dock assigned location, port of entry), as well as evaluating alternatives and selecting optimum routing and carrier based on pre-planned forecast data
• Overseeing booking/reservation of LSP capacity (provisionally or confirmed) based on forecast/pre-planning data
• Tariff & rate management and transit time compliance management/KPI
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

You are a part of

The Transport team, which is part of the Global Business Services (GBS) North American hub, in Nashville, TN. This team functions as the operational Center of Excellence (COE) group that handles transportation planning and execution.

To succeed in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain with a focus on Logistics/Transportation is preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 2+ years of experience in a Transport environment, with working knowledge operating as a shipper, carrier, Freight Forwarder, or supply chain transportation/logistics specialist
• Experience working with a TMS (Transportation Management System) and SAP
• Proven-track record of Customer Service and ability to problem solve
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point.
• Excellent written and verbal skills, Fluency in English is required (bilingualism in Spanish, German, French, Japanese, and or Chinese languages are a plus)

In return, we offer you

We offer you a dynamic working environment in an innovative business, which offers you excellent opportunities to further develop and fully exploit your talents. This job comes with a competitive salary, excellent benefits and up-to-date training.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you will reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville, TN.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart - which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home - for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when, and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams, and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

We want to be at our best: The way we work, and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips Global Business Services?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it's like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person's relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

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