Logistics Specialist

At Nouryon, you are a part of making everyday life easier for people around the world. Without seeing it, you meet us every day in your everyday life. We are in your soles, in your mobile and in the newspaper you read. With a common commitment to innovation, sustainability and safety, our employees work daily for a sustainable future.

We are searching for a consultant that has experience in logistics or supply chain and is fluent in Swedish for a assignment as a Logistics Specialist at Nouryon in Gothenburg!

About the position
As Logistics Specialist you will be responsible for completion of daily modal logistics activities including shipment planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting for assigned respective mode of transport in alignment with cost and service target.

You will be responsible for performing transportation planning, executing, and monitoring for the modal transportation mode according to the defined processes. You will conduct activities including capacity planning, shipment and fleet planning, carrier selection, routing, scheduling, tendering, load building as well as regular transportation bookings.

As a team we are also responsible for the invoicing process and that our vendors are correctly invoiced and that surcharges are managed properly. Most of our activities are handled in a so called TMS (Transporeon) where we have different options and possibilities to optimize shipment cost using functionalities such as, best bid and spot bids etc.

Another important aspect of the job is monitoring and control of all shipments and transactions we are involved in and resolve exceptions as they arise.
We are constantly working on improvements both internally, for our processes and externally, together with our logistics providers where we follow up on set KPI’s and cost performance.

In this role you will be the spider in the web communicating with many different stakeholders such as, site logistics, carriers, customer service, business planning and sales. No two days are alike.

Your profile
Experience in logistics / supply chain. Experience with chemical companies is preferred
Demonstrated knowledge in performing logistics activities
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and quickly develop a solution
Experience with carrier relationship management and performance evaluations
Understanding of the modal transport market
Working knowledge and history of using computers and programs specific to logistics (SAP, TMS, WMS) and to general business management (MS Excel, Word)
Language: Swedish and English both written and spoken


About the organisation
This is a consultant assignement at Nouryon in Gothenburg until 2022-12-31. During this time you will be hired by QRIOS Life Science & Engineering.
QRIOS employs curious experts in IT, Life Science and Engineering. We want to continue to attract the best employees, to continue to support our partners with the important competences you require. We are a recruitment and consulting company that is strongly inspired by those who never stop looking for new solutions. As we say, QRIOS MINDS GO FURTHER