Nestle is Looking for Logistics Business Excellence Specialist Full Time

Nestle is the world’s largest food and beverage company. We have over 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favourites and are present in 190 countries worldwide. In Canada, excelling means sharing our passion for our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. It also means living up to our exemplary values which are rooted in respect for ourselves, others, diversity, and the future. We will support and improve your tasting skills with a people-focused culture and a flexible and diverse working environment. Join our team to support our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Bringing our brands to life and making them as relevant for today’s consumers as they’ve always been takes vision, passion, and an innovative mind-set. If you can bring that into the mix, we know the magic will happen.

Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Logistics Business Excellence Specialist
Location: Brampton, ON
Job Grade: 13

We are looking for a Logistics Business Excellence Specialist for Nestlé based at our Brampton location. The primary purpose of the Transportation Business Excellence Specialist position is to administer all 3rd Party Supplier payments; (Domestic & IMSP Transportation, and Warehousing) through third Party AP service providers, utilizing SAP Transportation Management (TM) and 3rd Party payment systems. This role also encompasses freight payment auditing, ad hoc manual carrier payments, carrier rate table updating and reports creation for Transportation analysis and RFP bidding.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us. We embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance and flexibility to reach their fullest potential, allowing us all to think in new and creative ways that enhance our business and allow us to grow together both professionally and personally. At Nestlé, you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. Bringing our brands to life and making them as relevant for today’s consumers as they’ve always been takes vision, passion and an innovative mind-set. If you can bring that into the mix, we know the magic will happen.

As a Logistics Business Excellence Specialist, you will ensure an Accurate 3rd Party (3P) Audit and Payment Processing. This role be responsible for timely payment and in charge of reconciliation of batch reports with the 3P Provider as well as effective utilization of 3P online tools and automation. You will help to be compliant with Nestlé processes and adherence to Nestlé Supplier Code, Nestlé Terms and Conditions, and Nestlé Continuous Excellence foundations to demonstrate improvements in sustainability

You will also:

• Oversee any 3P invoices for rate/shipment discrepancies as well as auditing and processing of all carrier accessories and processes of all Custom Broker Payments.
• Ensure compliance and timely set-up of new carriers in SAP and vendor information provided to 3P and maintenance of carrier rates in SAP TM
• Provide monthly and/or quarterly scorecards published with transport providers
• Audit payment patterns and invoicing via EDI to 3P and adherence to carrier rates aligned to 3P system.
• Help to achieve effective administration of Transportation Business Excellence
• Approach PO creation, management and situations with lean problem-solving activities demonstrated within end to end Freight and Accessorial payment process.
• Demonstrate effective use of TMS (transportation Management System) through improvements and TMS/Digitalization projects
• Contribute to Value Creation through a Lean Enterprise Mindset
• Actively participate in the customer service logistics strategies
• Deliver yearly operation expense targeted impacts and/or will demonstrate results of pull and flow by reduction of waste (i.e. TIMWOOD)

As the successful candidate, you will be a champion of logistics throughout the organisation so you will need to be passionate, tenacious, results focused and really enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment.

We have a friendly, supportive team with a coaching and mentoring environment. There are real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards the exciting opportunity to drive strategy and build a career in Logistics with the leader in Food & Beverage.

We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

Nestlé is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodations you may require. Nestlé will work with you in an effort to ensure that you are able to fully participate in the process.