The Bountiful Company Hiring for Associate Transportation Job at Bohemia, NY Full Time

The Bountiful Company, a Nestlé Health Science Company, is a pure play branded leader in global nutrition, living at the intersection of science and nature. As a manufacturer, marketer and seller of vitamins, minerals, herbal and other specialty supplements, and active nutrition products, we are focused on enhancing the health and wellness of people’s lives. The Bountiful Company’s portfolio of trusted brands includes Nature’s Bounty®, Solgar®, Osteo Bi-Flex®, Puritan’s Pride®, Sundown® and Ester-C®.

Inclusion and Diversity in the workplace matters at The Bountiful Company. This includes being focused on retaining and recruiting a diverse workforce and building a culture of inclusivity. Our goal is to create a place where people feel respected, valued and able to bring their authentic selves to work each day.

Did we mention that we also offer excellent benefits, competitive compensation and a progressive, healthy company culture? If you’ve ever spent your workdays watching the clock, you know how important a positive work environment is for a person’s well-being. The Bountiful Company is committed to supporting wellness in all forms. And when it comes to wellness, nature is a pretty good place to start.

The responsibility of the Transportation Associate is to ensure operational success of freight orders by supporting the planning objective of building and maintaining mode-optimal and actionable load plans, ensuring load-level compliance, providing coverage oversight, performing risk management activities, and supporting cost and service targets.

To support this objective the Transport Associate will be responsible for a one or multiple of areas of focus including initial load creation, appointment capture/recapture activities, meeting predefined constraints present within the Nestlé physical logistics network, and collaborating with partners both internal and external to Nestlé to identify solutions that maintain continuity in T-Hub operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with external (non-Nestlé) providers, Nestlé value chain partners, and T-Hub colleagues to develop robust load plans, including ensuring utilization is optimized for freight order creation as opportunity permits.
• Coordinate with external (non-Nestlé) providers, Nestlé value chain partners, and T-Hub colleagues to manage reschedule requests and escalate scheduling anomalies.
• Perform daily activities and complete demand requirements in accordance with timing and cutoff rules defined by T-Hub.
• Execute upon T-Hub strategies and the aligned strategies of partner E2E flows while balancing cost and service targets during daily issue resolution and risk mitigation activities.
• Maintain continuous focus on ensuring that all transportation planning / scheduling activities are driven by the goal of achieving on time delivery to the STA date or STA window for all customer orders.
• Provide event reporting data to facilitate stakeholder visibility, drive personal role accountability, and escalate issues as they relate to T-Hub success.

• 1-3 years of experience coordinating activities across multiple internal and external departments.
• 1-3 years of experience with domestic Transportation modes and equipment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience working in transportation required.
• Strong Knowledge of MS Office applications, Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Excellent problem solving skills: able to work under pressure while prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Prior experience working with both LTL and FTL providers.
• Must possess a clear understanding of the basic principles of both LTL and FTL operations.
• Must understand lane and mode transit times to assist in proper load building tasks. Must understand if load plan and mode selection will meet required customer delivery dates.
• Ability to work collaboratively within teams.