Logistics Specialist

Description

Are you ready to grow your career and take on a new challenge? Corteva Agriscience has an exciting opportunity for a Logistics Specialist to join our team in Supply Chain Southern Cone. Become part of our team of top-notch supply chain professionals so you can play an important part of leading the agriculture market to seed and feed the World! This job is about feeding the world through an effective management of our warehousing and transportation network in Argentina to ensure that logistics operations are reliable and that eventually Corteva products are delivered to customer on time and in a cost-effective manner. All these goals must be achieved in an extremely dynamic environment regarding seasonality and demand peaks, tight schedules, customer needs and always in compliance with country legislation, keeping a balanced approach between an optimal cost, service, and stakeholders’ demands. Tight collaboration with 3rd party logistics service providers, supply chain and customer service partners is key to optimize and improve making logistics a competitive advantage for Corteva.

What You’ll Do:

1. Leads continuous improvement activities on area of functional expertise (transportation mode, carrier management, warehouse management) by calculating and monitoring KPI’s to meet or exceed service expectations.
2. Accountable to provide logistics expertise by identifying, analyzing and measuring improvements to key processes and procedures.
3. Designs and leads implementation of innovation and continuous improvement program.
4. Coordinate processes to ensure the accuracy of all inventory-related activities.
5. Lead projects to optimize logistic operations across the region.
6. Network with different functions in manufacturing, supply chain and logistics along the business and globally to share and leverage operational logistics knowledge.
7. Assure compliance with Responsible Care EHS&S, Legal and Distribution Risk Reviews throughout the organization. Requirements and internal audit goals are reached.

Requirements and Qualifications

What Skills You Need:

• BS in Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience supporting supply chain/logistics needs.
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvement.
• English written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills in different software applications (SAP, Excel, PowerBI, etc).
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills & teamwork. Ability to establish strong networks, relationships and disciplined communication with key stakeholders.
• Innovative mindset to create within current organizational constraints, while continuously challenging the status quo for agility as an industry leader.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Customer focus: Contributes strategically by clearly understanding internal/external customer needs and working to deliver innovative solutions that enable Corteva to meet the needs and measure and give visibility of results.
• Collaborates: Demonstrates ability to collaborate with cross-functional and cross-regional team to develop solutions to critical issues or deliver innovative solutions inside and beyond own region.
• Ability to use data to do concise gap analysis, build compelling cases for improvement and then effectively measures the results anticipate events and prepare for the situation ahead of time.
• Ability to develop and/or implement innovative solutions to differentiate Corteva.

Benefits – How We’ll Support You:

• Target bonus.
• Snack assignment.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Career development.
• Health insurance.
• And much more!