Logistics Planner

Want to build a brighter, bolder future and cultivate your career?** Join Ecolab’s team and help create a world in which we all thrive**

**Ecolab is looking for a Logistics Operations Specialist to join our dynamic supply chain team.** In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing carrier performance, resolving logistics issues, and ensuring safety standards across our transportation network. You’ll collaborate closely with Customer Service, Divisions, and cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence, cost control, and customer satisfaction. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong logistics background, a proactive mindset, and a passion for continuous improvement in a fast-paced, international environment.

**How You’ll Make an Impact**:

- Manage carriers and drive their service performance on daily basis and drive sustainable problem solving for main loss drivers
- Manage daily operations, solve ad hoc issues, customer claims for logistics area
- Ensure agreed safety standards are in place by carriers including performing regular audits. As Safety Champion, be responsible for investigation of incidents and implementation of corrective actions
- Reporting and Cost Controlling for Customer Delivery Area, including invoice process control, tight spend control on monthly basis
- Collaborate closely with Customer Service and Divisions on daily basis but also lead/or participate in joint Customer Collaboration projects
- Identify savings opportunities and deliver respectively or support the delivery
- Partner with broader cross-functional teams: Planning, Warehousing and Procurement and broader European teams
- Reports to Logistics Manager

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree OR High School Diploma or equivalent/GED and 4 years’ of experience in a manufacturing, logistics or related environment
- No immigration sponsorship available
- Fluency in English & German is a must
- Operational SAP knowledge
- Microsoft Suite proficiency
- Degree in Business, Engineering, Logistics, Transportation or related field. Can be compensated by relevant work experience
- Previous work experience in Logistics/Transportation
- Soft Skills: Reliable, Independent, Fast Learner

**What’s in it for You?**
- Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-challenging, cross-functional team environment
- Receive recognition for elevating quality, service, and cost metrics
- Opportunity to assume additional manufacturing or supply chain roles as you broaden your experience, develop your capabilities and prepare for a future management-level assignment
- Comprehensive benefits packages in line with market and industry standards

**About Ecolab**:
At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at our nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Our solutions not only enhance operational efficiency but also contribute to sustainability and public health, making a positive impact on the world. We are committed to eliminating unnecessary complexities and embracing a beginner's mindset, continuously seeking new perspectives and innovative solutions to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.

**_ Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right._**

**Join Ecolab and help us protect what’s vital**

**Unser Bekenntnis zu einer Kultur der Inklusion und Zugehörigkeit**
Ecolab verpflichtet sich zur fairen und gleichen Behandlung von Mitarbeitern und Bewerbern und fördert die Grundsätze der Chancengleichheit in der Beschäftigung. Wir rekrutieren, stellen ein, befördern, versetzen und bieten Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten auf der Grundlage individueller Qualifikationen und Arbeitsleistungen in allen Belangen, die Beschäftigung, Vergütung, Sozialleistungen, Arbeitsbedingungen und Karrierechancen betreffen. Ecolab diskriminiert keine Mitarbeiter oder Bewerber aufgrund von Rasse, Religion, Hautfarbe, Glaubensbekenntnis, nationaler Herkunft, Staatsbürgerschaft, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität und -ausdruck, genetischen Informationen, Familienstand, Alter oder Behinderung.