Transport Planner
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
As a Transport planner, you ensure the smooth and reliable flow of products across international markets for a leading global chocolate manufacturer. You coordinate daily transport operations, safeguard data accuracy, and help maintain high service performance. Your work directly supports on time deliveries, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence. By collaborating with logistics partners and internal teams, you contribute to a resilient and efficient global supply chain. This role plays a key part in bringing high quality chocolate products to customers worldwide.
Key Accountabilities
- Plan, schedule, and optimize bulk transport operations (road / bulk carriers) to ensure timely, cost effective delivery aligned with customer and production needs.
- Coordinate daily bulk transport execution with third party logistics providers, resolving issues related to capacity, sequencing, delays, or operational deviations.
- Prepare transport schedules, loading plans, and delivery instructions, ensuring full alignment between production, warehousing, and carrier availability.
- Oversee execution by ensuring accurate communication of sales orders, transport orders, and delivery data to third party carriers via electronic systems.
- Monitor and manage inventory levels at the external warehouse, ensuring stock accuracy, transport availability, and timely replenishment.
- Track bulk transport performance and contribute to KPI reporting, including transport efficiency, on time delivery, and service deviations.
- Handle complaints and non conformances related to bulk transport, conducting investigations and initiating claims with carriers when required.
- Provide administrative logistics support, including transport invoice validation, documentation control, and adherence to audit, safety, and quality standards.
- Serve as backup for transport planners and export administration tasks.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of bulk transport processes.
- Ensure compliance with product safety, quality, and hygiene standards throughout bulk transport and storage activities.
- Resolve routine planning and execution issues independently, escalating more complex or systemic problems to senior logistics or supply chain management.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in logistics.
- Fluent in 3 languages : Dutch, French and English
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:
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