Transport Coordinator

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Transport Coordinator

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Born

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Fulltime

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Secondary vocational education

As a Transport Coordinator (Planner), you and your team are responsible for efficiently and customer-oriented planning of (inter)national transports from our European Distribution Center in Born. You work closely with external transport partners and regularly communicate with customers and internal stakeholders to find the best solutions. You are able to anticipate problems, make informed decisions, and ensure a balance between cost and quality. With your experience and solution-oriented mindset, you are capable of optimizing and continuously improving the planning process.


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About us

Established in 2011, Samsung SDS Smart Logistics (part of the Korean multinational Samsung Group) is one of the fastest growing logistics service providers in the world and specializes in innovative logistics services by developing and applying optimized solutions and providing SCM consultancy to customers based on their own Cello platform. The company is active worldwide in 40 countries employing more than 4.500 logistics experts.

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Purpose of the job

In the role of transport coordinator (planner), you will work from the European Distribution Center in Born as part of a transport team consisting of 8 colleagues. Your responsibilities include:

  • Coordinating and monitoring transport: Issuing transport orders, monitoring planned transports, and immediately adjusting in case of deviations.
  • Solving planning-related problems: Proactively resolving bottlenecks in the planning to ensure efficient execution of transports.
  • Contact with customers and transporters: Maintaining regular contact with customers, transporters, and internal stakeholders to ensure the progress of shipments and manage expectations.
  • Process optimization: Identifying areas for improvement in the planning and actively contributing to the optimization of transport processes.
  • Document management: Inventorying shipments and requesting necessary (export) documents.
  • Administrative tasks: Performing additional administrative tasks related to transport planning, such as processing transport data in the TMS system and handling tickets in JIRA.

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Profile

You have strong communication skills and can communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, customers, and transporters, both over the phone and via email. You have the ability to quickly grasp problems and always work in a solution-oriented, service-focused, and customer-friendly manner. Our ideal candidate has:

  • A minimum of a completed MBO 4 education, preferably in logistics
  • Experience in logistics and transport
  • A good command of the English language, both written and spoken
  • Experience with Excel
  • Ability to work independently
  • High level of accuracy
  • Experience with TMS is a plus

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Benefits

  • Salary (2800 - 3400 EUR gross per month)  with yearly review on increase 
  • Fully paid healthcare insurance 
  • Bonus 
  • Fitness subscription
  • Bikeplan 
  • Trainings and digital learning 
  • 25 holidays (excluding public holidays) with possibility to buy 5 more
  • International working environment with colleagues coming from more than 40 different countries 

 

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Excited by this opportunity? Please upload your resume and we will reach out to you! 

Ernst van Doorn

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