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About Us
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 RequirementsAt minimum, the candidate for the Logistics Specialist must have:
- Experience in logistics, transportation, or customer service, preferably 2+ years
- 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
- Experience working in ERP systems
Your Career Journey At Nature's BakeryAs 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
The duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and meet strategic objectives.
Nature's Bakery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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