Transportation Planner
About Gordon
Gordon is a leading smart home delivery enabler for online grocery, pharmacy, and meal kit providers, leveraging its expertise to help e-commerce businesses capitalize on new growth opportunities. Our tailor-made tech platform for temperature-controlled deliveries, combined with a cost-efficient delivery infrastructure, has earned us the highest Trustpilot rankings in the Nordics since 2015 and the trust of leading food service and pharmacy companies. Our innovative sustainability initiative, Gordon Circular offers circular solutions for e-commerce food home deliveries.
To continue our journey, we are now seeking a Transportation Planner to join us in Stockholm. This role will be instrumental in optimizing Gordon's transportation network and driving cost-efficiency while exceeding customer expectations.
As a Transportation Planner, you will be pivotal in planning, coordinating, and managing transportation activities to support Gordon’s growth plan. This role combines operational planning, relationship building, and analytical expertise to ensure exceptional service delivery and cost optimization.
Responsibilities & Objectives:
- Plan and manage transportation needs, including receiving and processing customer transportation bookings and coordinating bookings with Gordon Distribution Centers.
- Develop, implement, and improve transportation planning and booking processes to enhance service delivery and enable profitable growth.
- Monitor transportation invoices and ensure accuracy in the billing process.
- Collaborate with transportation companies and internal teams to address potential issues and ensure performance aligns with Gordon’s standards.
- Analyze transportation performance data, identifying areas for improvement, and working with partners to meet and exceed expectations.
- Support pre-sales activities, such as pricing, setting up pick-up schedules, and creating Standard Operating Procedures for new customers.
- Identify and implement cost-efficiency initiatives to balance profitability with customer delivery demands.
- Collaborate with the Head of Quality & Sustainability on transportation quality initiatives.
- Assist the Transportation & Establishment Manager and Chief Logistics Officer with strategic activities.
We are looking for someone with
- Education: Senior High School or higher education in logistics or related fields.
- Experience: 2-4 years of experience in logistics and/or transportation, preferably within start-ups or e-commerce companies. Experience in the food or pharma industry is a plus.
- Skills:
- Analytical competence with strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build long-term partnerships.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Thorough, structured, and well-organized, with great attention to detail and prioritization ability.
- People management skills and a proactive attitude.
- Fluent in Swedish and English (written and spoken).
As a person you are
- Proactive, self-motivated with a positive attitude and committed to achieve results.
- A cooperative and unpretentious team-player that easily cooperates with others to create results driven by finding the best solution for the business.
- Integrity-driven and professional.
- A Gordon Cultural fit.
Why join Gordon?
- Be part of a company revolutionizing last-mile delivery.
- Work in an environment that values creativity, innovation, and sustainability.
- Collaborate with a passionate, dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional user experiences.
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, apply now! Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities.
Since we evaluate candidates continuously, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
- Department
- Logistics
- Locations
- Stockholm
Stockholm
Join us!
We offer you the opportunity to work in a creative environment where you can make a direct impact and grow. The standards of professionalism are high. This means good collaborative skills, a no-nonsense approach and a desire to grow as an individual and as a group. Does it sound interesting to be part of our exciting journey? Let us get to know you!
Our culture
A business is made up of goals, finances, business idea, business model and many other things. But an organisation, in its simplest form, is relationships between people. Strong relationships build trust, respect, confidence, commitment and goodwill over time. When you work at Gordon, you should feel that you are trusted, that you can make a difference, that you are safe and that you are not afraid to make mistakes. For us, simplicity and creating value for the customer are more important than titles and hierarchy. Welcome to Gordon!
About Gordon
Gordon is a last mile company specialising in collaborated flows of temperature-controlled deliveries. The company has two business areas: A complete solution for refrigerated last mile deliveries and a SaaS platform. Gordon was founded in 2015 in Stockholm and currently operates in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Customers include grocery retailers, meal kit companies, food producers and pharmacies.
Transportation Planner
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