Grow a Better Tomorrow with Nufarm.
We know that growing is about more than just crops and cultivation. It’s about sunshine and rain, early mornings and hard work. It can be frustratingly unpredictable but also wonderfully uplifting. More than anything, it’s about people. Nufarm is the dependable partner behind thousands of agricultural success stories. Every day, growers around the world turn to our products and our people to help with the challenges of fighting disease, weeds and pests, and to increase crop yields.
How can you grow with Nufarm?
Based in Alsip, IL, Nufarm is looking for a dynamic and energetic Logistics Network- Continuous Improvement Manager who will serve as the continuous improvement agent for logistics with a primary focus on managing the tactical and strategic improvement of the logistics network to reduce our logistics expenses while still providing the service level required by our customers within the Nufarm North American Region (US & Canada). He/she is responsible for the design, optimization, and continuous revision and adjustment of the Nufarm NA logistics network to ensure cost-efficient, resilient, flexible, and scalable product flows. The role bridges strategy and execution at the point where translation of the service requirements into an optimized network of warehouses, business rules, transport modes, and logistics partners is needed.
What will you be doing?
Logistics Network- Continuous Improvement Manager
- Propose and implement the optimum logistics network design by working with commercial/sales, marketing, and finance teams, developing and implementing business rules (freight & service level agreements) to support Nufarm customer segmentation strategies, and optimizing our Cost To Serve (CTS) position.
- In collaboration with the Global Cost to Serve Initiative Team members, implement and manage cost-to-serve processes to support business/commercial decisions regarding what product/customer to supply to maximize the region's profitability and support our growth aspirations.
- Generate multi-dimensional data and cost/service support alternatives to help advance business reviews and decisions.
- Partner with the Distribution Requirement Planning to build process cadence to properly execute inventory replenishment in an optimized network of warehouses.
- Facilitate necessary cross-functional improvements to operating processes and procedures to enable CIP results.
