Logistics Specialist

Nature's Bakery; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nature's Bakery is seeking a Logistics Specialist to manage transportation and inventory tasks, ensuring customer needs are met. The ideal candidate will have experience in logistics and ERP systems, and possess strong analytical and communication skills. Join a fast-growing company committed to health and wellness.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid vacation

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Paid short-term disability

Paid life insurance

Wellness Benefits and Discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in logistics, transportation, or customer service.
• 1 year working in ERP systems, preferably SAP.

Responsibilities

• Own all transportation, inventory, and customer service tasks.
• Build reports to create visibility and resolve issues.

Skills

Analytical

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

Experience in logistics

Tools

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Since our founding in 2011, Nature’s Bakery has been baking better-for-you snacks to nourish families and enable them to thrive. We believe that the choice to snack healthier should be an easy and desirable one. Today, we are a top 10 granola and snack bar brand, with approximately 500 employees baking soft-baked snacks with real, recognizable, and wholesome ingredients, such as whole grains and sun-ripened fruits.

Our marketplace success led us to join forces with KIND to create a health and wellness platform within Mars, Inc. While continuing to operate as a standalone company, we are now part one of the most well-regarded consumer goods company in the world. That independence allows us to remain an agile, insurgent brand committed to our brand purpose and founding.

Nature’s Bakery is a fast-growing company with a bright future ahead. We have achieved great things, and there is more opportunity for growth both on the digital and retail shelves, through expanded distribution with existing and new retail customers. To achieve our aspirations, we are expanding our team of growth-minded, nimble, and entrepreneurial individuals who like to roll up their sleeves and get things done. We think like owners, act like operators.

So, come join us to create a world of snacking that is both good, and good for you.

About The Role

The Logistics Specialist will own all transportation, inventory, and customer service tasks related to their portion of the business. This includes building reports to create visibility, then utilizing that visibility to identify and resolve current issues/future problems, minimizing impact to customer as well as identifying and delivering unrealized opportunities. Specialist will report to Logistics Supervisor who will support and develop the specialist with the goal of the specialist performing many of their tasks independently including decision making.

The Critical Success Factors

You will be most successful if you:

• Can understand complex systems and how actions in one area impacts the entire system
• Have a keen sense of detail that produces accurate work with consistent report-driven reviews for accuracy
• Take ownership of your position’s responsibilities and are accountable to servicing your customers
• Can find meaning in data and deduce actionable steps to drive improvement
• Are a self-starter who is innately motivated to accomplish their goals without consistent oversight
• Can work well on teams, collaborating with others across the organization to resolve problems and communicate respectfully
• Developed understanding of processes, how they fail, and how to design them in ways to reduce failures
• Provide support to other team members and business partners to assist when requested
  
  
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate is a professional who can step in, take ownership of existing processes, learn how to accurately reproduce reports, and achieve the overall goal of ensuring all customer’s needs are met. This candidate ideally would grow to be a self-sustained contributor who is an expert in their customers, facilities, inventories, and transportation lanes. The candidate would also be a trusted partner who achieves shared goals with colleagues across the operations team.



The Minimum And/or Technical Requirements

At minimum, the candidate for the Logistics Specialist must have:

• Experience in logistics, transportation, or customer service, preferably 2+ years
• 1 year or more working in ERP systems, preferably SAP
• Good understanding of Microsoft Excel, capable of performing many tasks in tool
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Fantastic oral and written communication skill
• Proven ability to achieve goals independently
• Multiple instances of working successfully on teams
  
  
  
  

Your Career Journey At Nature’s Bakery

As a young company, we have had the opportunity to shape, reinforce and live our five core company values daily:

• Growth Minded. You are incessantly curious, you believe career development is journey built on experiences, feedback and personal growth
• Solutions-Focused. You excel at both thinking and doing and have a track record of turning organizational objectives into actionable solutions
• You thrive in environments where team members treat each other with respect and support one another, in fact you believe the best solutions emerge when you can engage in fact-based, low-ego discussions
• Stronger Together. Working as a team towards a common goal, we thrive on collaboration because we believe each of us has a unique perspective to offer
• “Doing the right thing” guides you, it is the compass that guides every decision and action you take
  
  

Our culture enables our success as individuals and as a company. From the start, you will have ownership over projects because we are a lean organization that tightly collaborates for faster decision-making. In doing so, you will deepen your skillsets while having exposure to broader experiences and senior leadership. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s Best Workplaces,” Mars, Inc. is a purpose-driven organization that will also provide you access to advancement and career growth opportunities, either within Nature’s Bakery or the broader Mars family of companies.

Our brand purpose extends to our own employees—we know that when you thrive, so does the company. That is why we offer market competitive compensation. In addition to a competitive base salary, our annual incentive plan rewards achievement toward company and individual goals.

WHAT WE OFFER

Our team members' physical and mental health is important to a thriving workplace. That’s why we offer the following benefits to full-time employees:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance offered for eligible employees
• 401(k) plan with a company match that vest on day 1 of eligibility
• Paid vacation
• Paid time off
• Holiday pay (11 days)
• Paid short-term disability
• Paid life insurance
• Banfield Pet Insurance Discounts
• Wellness Benefits and Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
  
  
  
  

EEO

We are committed to an inclusive workplace where diversity in all its forms is championed. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we are an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.



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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

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