Transport Planner

Job Title
Transport Planner

Job Description

Transport Planner
As a Transport Planner you are responsible for preparing and maintaining transportation plans for finished products, ensuring alignment with short-term objectives and strict adherence to established processes, working under general supervision.

Your role:

• Provide weekly support through touchpoints focusing on freight status and issue resolution, while ensuring the optimization of operations across regions and leveraging capacity with carriers and freight forwarders.
• Oversee Advanced Shipment Notices (ASN) processes by communicating with suppliers and transport teams for timely deliveries, manage ASN revisions, and facilitate claims follow-up with suppliers and carriers to maintain accurate records and resolve shipment issues.
• Responsible for coordinating inbound and outbound shipments, proactively monitoring daily operations, tracking missed milestones, and implementing corrective actions to ensure timely delivery from booking to destination.
• Manage logistics processes including transportation planning, execution, and tariff and rate management, ensuring compliance with transit time KPIs, data accuracy in the Transport Management System, and effective daily capacity management.
• Foster positive relationships with logistics counterparts, carriers, and internal business units, acting as an escalation point, maintaining alignment, and driving global logistics process standardization and cost control.
  
  

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 2+ years of experience with Vocational Education in areas such as Supply Chain, Transport, Logistics, Operations, Physical Distribution or equivalent OR no prior experience with Bachelor's Degree.
• Your skills include knowledge in Excel (Pivot table generation, use of V-look up, report generation) and SAP.
• You have a High School Diploma, Vocational Education or a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or equivalent.
• You’re a professional with a customer-focused and solution-oriented mindset with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bilingual ability to read, write, and speak English required.
  
  

How We Work Together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an in-office role.
About Philips

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