Description
Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!
Position Overview:
Logistics Specialist will form an integral part of the Supply Chain function to achieve the operational objectives. This role will be responsible for materials, goods and products (including importing and exporting), overseeing the transportation of goods to and from the plant and implementation of best practice for logistics vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures.
Key responsibilities include:
- Planning, managing and evaluating logistics operations liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies and customers
- Delivering solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary requirements
- Monitoring quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs
- Negotiating rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers, and recommending optimal transport modes and routes
- Selecting carriers/suppliers and monitoring service against performance criteria
- Resolving problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports or customer issues
- Identifying savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics process
- Ensuring compliance with import/export regulations, customs regulations and legal and health and safety requirements
Experience and skills required:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, logistics, supply chain, or relevant field
- Job related experience for minimum 3 years of working in logistics/supply chain/transportation function within manufacturing environment
- Work collaboratively across departments as well with key stakeholders
- Expert knowledge of technical regulations related to logistics such as import/export and customs regulations
- Good management and analytical skills
- Knowledge of MS Office and SAP
- Advanced knowledge of English language
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.