Senior Logistics Specialist

4 weeks ago

Solon, Ohio, United States nVent Full time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Logistics Specialist to lead our transportation activities across relevant nVent sites and customers. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on speed and cost, with experience in logistics transportation or carrier management.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead spot transportation activity across relevant nVent sites and customers
  • Lead projects and initiatives to reduce supply chain cost, improve customer experience, and advance nVent supply chain goals
  • Focus on digital projects, including TMS implementation, Freight Audit and Pay implementation, and Tableau dashboards
  • Build scorecards and reporting to lead the business and report on outcomes and opportunities to top management
  • Support the implementation and removal of logistics partners in alignment with site and shipping leaders and enterprise teams
  • Bring ideas and build solutions to focus on ESG metrics and goals, including internal opportunities for improvement and carbon reduction in our external logistics network
  • Create and lead a funnel of continuous improvement items that require focus from the business to support key critical metrics

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • Ideally 7+ years of logistics transportation or carrier management experience with an emphasis on bids, negotiations, and performance monitoring
  • Funnel management, lean business tools, and project leadership experience preferred
  • Digital tools experience with preferably Tableau, ERP, TMS, WMS, and FAP
  • Analytic with experience using qualitative and quantitative to evaluate logistics operations and service providers
  • Interpersonal skills to ensure the ability to focus on the key day-to-day priorities without losing sight of longer-term initiatives
  • Experience with LTL and Parcel shipping
  • Requires up to 15% business travel (air and vehicle) and working hybrid out of Solon, OH office

About nVent:

nVent is a dynamic global company with diverse operations around the world. We believe safer systems ensure a more secure world and connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high-performance products and solutions for mission-critical equipment, buildings and essential processes. Our solutions are helping build a more sustainable and electrified world.

We are a $3.3B company with a dedicated team of more than 11,000 employees around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of enclosures, electrical and fastening, and thermal management solutions dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, RAYCHEM and SCHROFF.

We are committed to strengthening communities where our employees live and work. We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide through our nVent in Action matching program, which provides funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money.

We are known for being innovative and adaptable, dedicated to absolute integrity, focused on the customer first, respectful and team-oriented, optimistic and energizing, and accountable for performance. We offer benefits to support the lives of our employees and believe in inclusion and diversity, celebrating and encouraging each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.

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