Title:  Commodity Logistics Specialist

Job Purpose and Impact

The Commodity Logistics Specialist will assist with supply chain activities required to bring commodity ingredients into contracted warehouses, vendors, to plants. In this role, you will complete documentation and systems entry to enable timely and cost-effective flow of commodities.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform activities that support transportation and logistics solutions on inbound movement of raw commodity ingredients 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.
• Assist with routine schedule preparation, 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 basic issues and provide recommendations to support improved and cost beneficial freight movements.
• Facilitate shipments against purchase and sales contracts, execute internal and external purchase orders and invoices and perform data entry updates using enterprise resource planning systems, spreadsheets and databases.
• Execute specialized transportation and logistics activities around material resource plans for the facilities, claims and incidents, customer service and customer orders contracts.
• Conduct activities to support the development of relationships to assist with order and shipment changes in order to make the best buy or sell decisions to minimize costs and maximize profits and services.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient in spreadsheet and word processing applications
• Fluent English and Norwegian (daily work in both languages)
• Strong planning and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage change and ambiguity.
• Effective stakeholder communication and collaboration in virtual teams.
• High adaptability and accountability in dynamic environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of how enterprise resource planning systems
• Practical knowledge of the SAP system 
• Knowledge of manufacturing environments or food safety
• Working knowledge of international commercial terms
• Commodity logistics knowledge