Outbound Logistics Planner

Responsibilities:

• Execute the daily route planning process by designing routes that are efficient, cost effective, and geographically sound.
• Work collaboratively to proactively review and improve the routes in your assigned territory or region. Ensuring that the design of the route provides the driver with the best opportunity to complete all tasks within the time frame specified.
• Utilize critical thinking and problem resolution to provide innovative solutions for repetitive service challenges within assigned territory. Such as overlapping routes, extended wait times and incorrect data.
• Perform daily checks to ensure all new customers are properly set up and permanently assigned to a preferred route.
• Get feedback from drivers and other relevant parties to help in improving route planning decision making.
• Work closely with the Outbound Logistics planning lead and the Outbound logistics planning manager to continuously validate, update, and communicate discrepancies related to customer information that are critical for executing the route planning and delivery process.
• Work closely with night operations to coordinate the release of work through the night.
• Perform another task as needed.

• High School Diploma Required.
• 1-3 years of experience as a driver and/or transportation logistics experience preferred.
• Prior experience using a routing platform or route optimization tool a plus.
• Prior experience handling last and/or middle mile operations.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both written and verbal.
• Bilingual Spanish speaking preferred.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Must be comfortable with shifting schedule including nights, weekends, Sundays, and holidays.

The Outbound Logistics Planner is tasked with ensuring that optimal last and middle mile delivery routes are planned daily for execution by our drivers. The Outbound Logistics Planner has ownership of a geographical region and is accountable for creating optimized routes that support on-time deliveries to our customers, while maintaining established profitability and service levels. This role will report directly to the Outbound Logistics Planning Lead and will work cross functionally across multiple departments to increase overall productivity and efficiency. This role will allow you to be at the forefront of Baldor’s last mile operations and play a vital part in our day-to-day operations. You will be able to positively impact our drivers and customers, driver profitability while helping to deliver on our promise of “Quality you can trust. Service that delivers.”

Who We Are:

BALDOR HISTORY:

When Louis Balducci rented a pushcart for $5.00 a week in 1918, little did he know that he was laying the foundations for Baldor Specialty Foods. In 1946, Louis opened a fruit stand called Balducci’s Produce in Greenwich Village that flourished into a beloved specialty food shop. Food writer James Beard was a regular customer and noted that Balducci’s always sold “the best of the best, at the right price.”

A family business from the start, the company employed numerous family members including son-in-law, Kevin Murphy. Murphy ran Balducci’s wholesale division, Baldor, so passionately that the Balducci family encouraged him to establish the business as an independent entity in 1991. Over the next decade, Baldor sustained continuous growth while maintaining the standard of excellence that made Balducci’s a success. The company cemented its reputation for sourcing expertise after introducing blanched frisee to the American market. Murphy named it “Circus Frisee” after famed restaurant Le Cirque.

Today, Baldor is the leading importer and distributor of fresh produce and specialty foods in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. The company is headed by Kevin’s son, T.J. Murphy, C.E.O. Under his leadership, Baldor remains committed to customer service, quality, and innovation.

Baldor Specialty Foods has a long legacy of quality, consistency, and service. Under the leadership of the former Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Murphy, President Mike Muzyk joined Baldor in 1996 and today works closely with Kevin’s son, TJ Murphy, who has been the Owner and Chief Executive Office since 2013. Under the leadership and partnership of TJ and Mike, in the last seven years, Baldor has achieved consistent double-digit growth in addition to geographic, category, product and channel expansion.