Route Guide Specialist

Business Area: Nestle Supply Chain – Transport HUB

Location: York

We are recruiting for a Route Guide Specialist. This is a permanent opportunity which will report into the Transport Planning & Scheduling Lead. The York head office is home to Nestlé's first European Transport Hub (THub). The THub has responsibility for planning and executing Nestlé's road transportation within Europe, simplifying and standardising our European transportation processes. We manage the transport of finished goods between Nestlé's European factories and distribution centres, as well as inbound raw and packaging materials from our major suppliers where opportunities arise.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

Some of our other fantastic benefits:

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• A focus on personal development and growth

In order to perform this role effectively, there will be an expectation of office presence at least 3 days per week. This is not a remote role.

Your impact:

As part of the Planning and Scheduling team, you will be responsible for ensuring all loads requested by our internal customers have assigned hauliers, minimising transportation cost whilst respecting the commitments made in the tender process and driving the usage of sustainable solutions.

Your role will include haulier relationship management, haulier assignment, liaising with our procurement team and supporting cost-and-service-based optimization activities for Nestlé.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring all transports planned have carriers assigned with agreed rates, minimising cost, and ensuring compliance to agreed business shares and volumes
• Engaging with the tendered hauliers relating to unassigned shipments, working with them to ensure tender commitments are met
• Work cross functionally to drive the utilisation of procured intermodal transportation solutions to help the business in delivering on its sustainability ambitions
• Identifying gaps between transport demand and current market capacity and then working with our procurement team to find solutions that allow us to maintain service levels at an acceptable cost
• Acting as an operational point of contact for enquiries from both hauliers and our customer markets with regards possible transport issues and opportunities
• Provide support to the wider End-to-End team by responding to service failures and finding alternative solutions in order to minimise further impact on service
• Supporting the focus on accurate system set up and master data to ensure we are able to efficiently complete freight settlement activities and pay our hauliers on time

Your ingredients for success:

You will understand distribution end-to-end processes and will have worked in a similar role with experience in either international or domestic transport. Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across various functions and markets are key; along with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.

The ability to speak/write other European languages in addition to English would be advantageous however not essential.

You will also:

• Be able to deal with multiple tasks at any one time and be able to effectively prioritise them based on multiple inputs
• Have experience of dealing with suppliers and/or service providers and be able to use available data to help challenge and resolve performance issues
• Understand cost vs. service trade off
• Understand supply chain principles associated with "total delivered cost"

What you need to know:

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don't delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.