Rail Logistic Specialist

Cargill

Amarillo, TX

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SKILLS

Agriculture, Analysis Skills, Animal Nutrition, Billing, Business Administration, Business Growth, Business Support, Capacity Management, Cargo/Freight, Collective Bargaining, Communication Skills, Compensation and Benefits, Customer Support/Service, Data Entry, Documentation, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Facilities Planning, Food Safety, Import/Export, Interpersonal Skills, Inventory Management, Inventory Reports, Logistics, Manufacturing, Materials Planning, Mathematics, Multitasking, Online Chat, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Pricing, Problem Solving Skills, Project/Program Management, Purchase Orders, Purchasing/Procurement, SAP, Sales, Spreadsheets, Supply Chain, Systems Administration/Management, Time Management, Transportation Planning, Transportation and Logistics, Warehousing, Word Processing, Writing Skills

LOCATION

Amarillo, TX

POSTED

2 days ago

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.**Job Purpose and Impact**The Rail Logistics Specialist will handle moderately complex supply chain activities required to bring commodity ingredients into contracted warehouses, vendors, plants or direct to customers. In this role, you will execute the commodity merchant supply strategy, collaborate with all other internal functional and department personnel, be responsible for administration of documentation and systems entry and ensure a timely and cost effective flow of commodities.**Key Accountabilities**+ Provide transportation and logistics solutions on inbound movement of raw commodity ingredients and finished goods from origin to destination.+ Execute logistics activities that support the execution of the supply chain, such as transportation capacity plans, management of third party warehouses and vendors, container administration and import shipments.+ Responsible for routine scheduling, transportation arrangement, stock inventory management and reporting of shipments in accordance with purchase and sales contracts.+ Execute against the logistics and supply chain strategy, resolve complex issues and provide recommendations to support improved and cost beneficial freight movements.+ Manage shipments against purchase and sales contracts, create internal and external purchase orders and invoices and perform data entry updates using enterprise resource planning systems, spreadsheets and databases.+ Conduct specialized transportation and logistics activities, such as participation with the material resource plans for the facilities, claims and incidents, customer service and customer orders contracts.+ Develop and foster relationships to obtain services at preferential pricing and service levels.+ Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.\#LI-SP1**Qualifications****Minimum Qualifications**+ Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience+ Proficient in working with enterprise resource planning systems+ Proficient in spreadsheet and word processing applications+ Working knowledge of international commercial terms+ Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.**Preferred Qualifications**+ Knowledge of ingredient food safety, preferably in a manufacturing environment+ Background in supply chain, logistics, agriculture or business administration a plus+ Background in SAP, TM is a plus+ Strong mathematical and analytical ability+ Strong organizational, interpersonal and customer service skills+ Self-motivation and high accountability with ability to make sound decisions with minimal supervision+ Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment where quick decision making and managing of multiple priorities+ Strong written and oral communication skills+ Ability to work closely with a high-performing team+ Great adaptability and problem-solving ability+ Project management experience**Position Details**- Location: Amarillo, TX; Relocation assistance is not provided for this role- Schedule is Monday - Friday typically from 8:00am - 5:00pm.- The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this positionAt Cargill we put people first.  As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions). Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetTo apply using chat/text, please click Apply Now button OR use this link ( to create a login to apply.

Rail Logistic Specialist

Cargill

Amarillo, TX

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