Transport Coordinator

**Your Job**

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

**About Us**

Scottex®. Kleenex®. Huggies®. Cottonelle®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**About You**

As the Transport Coordinator for Southern Europe, you will own the relationship and delivery of the contract with the Third-party logistics (3PL) and outsourced service providers (4PL) in Southern Europe, whilst giving direction, support and a collaborative approach to the wider UK and Western Europe team.

You will work collaboratively with the 4PL and the European transport manager to continuously improve, monitor and evaluate the cost and service of Kimberly-Clark's transport activities and you will ensure that transport delivers against our ways of working. Furthermore, working closely with the Kimberly-Clark European Supply Chain organization, you will contribute to improve processes which add value to the business and innovate to ensure we improve our customer experience.

This is primarily Spain based but has some European responsibility and there is some European travel involved.

You will report to the UK & WE Transport Sustainability Leader and will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

**This is a temporary role and we can offer a six months maternity cover contract.**

**YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Owner of the contractual delivery of the Third-party logistics (3PL) and outsourced service providers (4PL) service in Southern Europe
- Governance of the relationship ensuring that the contractual obligations of both parties are met and devising local market strategies for tendering and service improvement
- Continually monitoring service levels enacting strategies to address service failings on a corrective action, preventive action basis, whilst leading on problem solving through lean methodologies
- Develop a technology and service improvement roadmap over the life of the contract with the 4PL
- Build strong internal stakeholder networks within the supply chain, as well as Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), deployment and mills, building transport forecasting models and tracking accuracy to forecast, ensuring that transport is integrated into their thinking
- Control and report on the extra service requests, higher rate authorization and additional costs within transport, leading on the headwind reduction as part of fuel to grow
- Lead on cost transformation projects within transport and assist in sharing best practice across the wider European team
- Work with the 4PL provider to realize added value for Kimberly-Clark, establishing market leading collaboration that brings benefits to both
- Provide contractual input to build win-win scenarios when onboarding new suppliers, being actively involved in ensuring that Kimberly-Clark requirements are fully understood and realized

**WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU**:

- Experience within a transport operation either in house or external, ideally managing 4PL contracts and supplier management within transport
- Ability to deal with conflict and independently in an effective and rational manner
- Ability to build good working relationships with external suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Strong negotiation and prioritization skills
- Fluent in English, Italian or Spanish would be an advantage

**We Offer**

**To Be Considered**

**Please submit your CV in English as it will be considered by English speakers.**

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**And finally, the fine print.**
- For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will rec