Transportation Analyst

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role:

In this role, you will be responsible for financial, operational and system analysis within the Logistics department. You will be the point of contact for validating and approving all departmental invoices, entering purchase requisitions as well as tracking and reporting on department spend. Responsible for building tools to support analytics and understanding cost to serve. In addition, a key component of this role is to analyze both operational and financial performance within the Logistics area and recommend improvements and proactively implement solutions designed to maximize asset utilization, drive costs out of the warehousing and transportation network and efficiently ensure customer service expectations are consistently attained.

What you’ll do:

A) 3PL Management and Reporting

• Work directly with 3PL to review KPIs and identify gaps with aligned corrective actions

• Perform a variety of operational activities including the audit of freight bills, preparing and negotiating claims, and selecting and recommending carriers.

• Lead and participate in Monthly meetings where KPIs and project action plans are reviewed

• Lead and support QBRs with 3PL

• Support Operational Excellence/continuous improvement initiatives

• Work with 3PL to ensure spend is approved and tracked

B) Financial, warehousing and transportation operations

• Work with finance team to support preparation for the monthly financial and operational reviews with the 3PL provider.

• Compile and present monthly logistics dashboard including financial and service metrics as specified

• Identify and implement various VIPs designed to optimize costs across the distribution and warehousing network including off-schedule and expedite delivery mitigation

• Serve as a SME on assigned projects and tasks

• Support the commercial team in preparing customer RFP responses relating to logistics/distribution

• Provide total logistics support as required for all Baxter transportation and warehousing including frozen, chilled and ambient product.

• Coverage for Logistics Analysts as required

What you’ll have:

• College/University Education

• 3+ years experience in transportation, distribution or warehousing

• Logistics management operational expertise

• Intermediate to expert level of MS Excel

• Basic understanding of data import, manipulation and file/report development

• Detailed understanding of domestic and international logistics and transportation

• Strong process improvement and development

• Systems experience including routing, load planning and scheduling

• Strong ERP understanding as it relates to TMS, WMS and transportation and logistics planning

• Operations financial analytics capability

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Reasonable Accommodations

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