Logistics Contract Manager

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Nestlé UK & I

Location: York/ Any UK based Factory or office Location with regular travel

Salary: £50,000 - £52,000 + 17% Car Allowance and companywide benefits.

Position Summary

We have a brilliant opportunity for a talented individual to join the Logistics team as a Logistics Contract Manager. This role will have a key focus on storage and distribution for the UK Export volume and the NiM pallet contracts.

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process on what this could look like. We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

As one of the major exporters of the UK and Ireland’s food industry, our supply chain really is at the heart of all operations at Nestlé from sourcing raw materials right through to delivering the end product to our customer. Working closely with these customers and our internal colleagues, we are able to manage one of the FMCG industry’s most complex and sophisticated value chains, putting the consumer at the heart of everything we do.

Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s largest food and beverage company. Nestlé’s purpose is enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. We want to help shape a better and healthier world. We also want to inspire people to live healthier lives. This is how we contribute to society while ensuring the long-term success of our company.

We have more than 2000 brands worldwide, from global icons to local favourites, and here in the UK and Ireland we are major player within the food industry. However, at Nestlé it’s not just our big brands that matter…………………..….it’s our people. In the UK and Ireland, across numerous sites, we employ over 8000 people.

A day in the life of a Logistics Contract Manager

Your main responsibility will be to ensure outstanding delivery of Third-Party Logistics services such as warehousing, e-commerce and equipment across the NiM network

Key responsibilities include: -

• Set adequate target values for service and cost and effectively monitor the 3rd Party Logistics teams performance by:
• Putting in place a structured continuous improvement approach based on the application of Tools, methods (DMAIC) and the implementation of Best Practices
• Tracking productivity improvement
• Implementing, monitoring and managing Safety, Health & Environment, Quality and CARE regulations and Best Practices; NCE Goal alignment key meetings
• Driving initiatives for opportunities to Nestle’s benefit within the relationship with the 3PL
• Management of the budget for 3rd Party logistics services
• Ensure communication and collaboration with Customers and other functional departments (Customer Service, Transport, DCs, Factories)
• Influence Distribution Management, Demand & Supply Planning and Customer Service by regularly providing feedback to continuously improve service and cost, ensure freshness and avoid bad goods
• Working alongside Procurement to tender, negotiate and award contracts for a range of Logistics Services
  
  

What Will Make You Successful

You’ll come from a Logistics or Supply Chain background and can effectively influence people at all levels both internally and externally. Your self-motivation and drive will help you succeed when solving problems in what can often be a complex and demanding environment. This coupled with your proactive nature and the drive for continuous improvement will be key.

Although you will not have any direct reports in this role you will act as a leader within the function and support the development of others around you.

You’ll also have:

• Detailed knowledge of FMCG supply chain processes.
• Experience of Budgetary/cost control
• Previous experience of leading and managing a team.
• Experience of change management.
  

In return, the Supply Chain team can offer you all the support and guidance necessary to succeed. This is a great opportunity to work within a talented and dedicated team.

What You Need To Know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 20th July 2022

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 – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK

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.