Logistics Specialist II

MasterBrand

Company Description

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together!

Job Description

This role is both dynamic and evolving, beginning with a primary focus on daily dispatch responsibilities. As you gain experience and familiarity with operations, the position will expand to include analytical and project management support for the entire Logistics team. Additionally, you may have opportunities to contribute to other logistics functions, such as production scheduling, transportation route planning and capacity planning. Across all areas, strong data analysis and problem-solving skills are essential for ensuring operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure all truckload shipments have assigned carriers, and resolve potential delivery issues to minimize customer disruptions
  • Maintain effective communication between manufacturing operations, customer service, home delivery agents and carriers
  • Resolve time-critical transportation and delivery issues utilizing cost effective methods.
  • Assist with plant production scheduling, transportation route planning, or capacity planning functions.
  • Help identify, support and/or lead efforts to solve problems and drive the deployment of logistics/supply chain best practices.
  • Access, organize, and aggregate data from various data sources to allow for analysis and performance monitoring.
  • Provide occasional analysis to support process improvement initiatives and key metric monitoring for the entire logistics team.
  • Serve as an escalation point for customer service, manufacturing, sales, carriers and logistics.
  • Identify and participate in initiatives to reduce waste and drive the deployment of best practices using lean tools and processes.
  • Help guide tactical execution of work assignments within the team and assist with planning and facilitating team cross training.
  • Collaborate with other functional areas to drive service excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Up to 15% travel required

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree with an emphasis in Supply Chain, Business or related field strongly preferred
  • 2+ years of experience in Logistics/Transportation Management, including demonstrated use of analytics
  • Familiarity with analytical/database platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, Access, SQL is a plus!
  • Proficient skills with other Microsoft Office products required (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
    • Very experienced with Excel and its advanced functions and tools
  • Excellent business acumen, problem solving, and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated strength in project management, communication and planning

Additional Information

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at staffing@masterbrand.com.

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