Capacity Load & Compliance Specialist

Salary:
Circa £27,500 depending on experience (plus 10% weekend premium).

Shift pattern: 37hrs per week Mon-Fri plus 13 weekend days per annum

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus.
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle.
• Flex Days: 12 days
• A focus on personal development and growth.

We have a fantastic opportunity to join the UK&I THub Team as a Capacity Load & Compliance Specialist reporting to the Capacity Load & Compliance Team Lead.

Nestlé SA is the world’s leading health,wellness and nutrition company, with over seven thousand employees in the UK and Ireland alone across the 19 sites of all our business. We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, GoCatand Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year.

Our supply chain really is at the heart of our entire business, the success of Nestle relies on its ability to effectively manage our hugely complex operation. Wepossessone of the most sophisticated value chains from farm to fork, putting the consumer at the heart of everything we do.

The THub has responsibility for planning and executing Nestlé’s road and rail transportation within UK & Ireland, doing so with a focus on optimising efficiency, cost, service and sustainability. We manage this across Nestlé‘s network of factories and distribution centres, as well as inbound raw and packaging materials from our major suppliers where opportunities arise.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

Your role will involve driving transportation efficiency, by optimizing vehicle utilization and minimizing freight expenses whilst exceeding customer expectations .

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring all transport demand is planned in SAP TM as per requirement, with carriers assigned with agreed rates, minimising cost and ensuring compliance to agreed business shares and volumes.
• Supporting the focus on accurate system set up and master data to ensure we can efficiently complete freight settlement activities and pay our hauliers on time.
• Maximizing opportunities to build efficiency across our haulier base through analysis of data and trends and relationships with hauliers.
• Work with business categories and site planners ensure smooth outbound flow and minimise cost.
• Utilise improvement techniques to drive performance and eliminate waste from our processes.

You will have an understanding of Supply Chain end to end processes and will have worked in a similar role with experience in either international or domestic transport planning.

It would be preferred for the successful candidate to have Logistics experience and Transport knowledge would be a distinct advantage.

Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across various functions and markets are key; along with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.

You will:

• Be an analytical thinker with a passion for problem solving and a root cause mindset
• Have used SAP based or similar Transport Planning systems
• Understand cost vs. service trade off.
• Have experience of service provision and escalation management
• Understand supply chain principles associated with “total delivered cost”
• Be able to handle competing priorities and at times a high-pressure environment.