Logistics Sourcing Specialist

Job Description:
Logistics Sourcing Specialist - LATAM

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
Provides sourcing advice and consults with logistics team to set short-term strategic direction and operating plans for transportation. Responsible for cost reduction, cash improvement opportunities, supply risk management, and sourcing initiatives and tools. May support management of accounts payable ledger and purchase order transaction management. Will assist and may lead negotiations for highly complex sourcing contracts.

As a Logistics Sourcing Specialist - LATAM, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by leading LATAM logistics RFPs, drayage, local transport (cartage), freight audit, and more.

Key Responsibilities:

- Strategic Problem Solving: Use analytical thinking and leverage market insights, data analytics, and supplier information to develop innovative solutions.
- Sourcing Process Management: Lead LATAM transportation RFPs, cartage, freight audit and other logistics contracts.
- Contract Negotiation and Supplier Management: Negotiate sourcing contracts and build strategic relationships with key suppliers.
- Develop a contract repository system and a methodology for tracking contract expirations. To ensure compliance with corporate sourcing policies and procedures.
- Claims and Cost Management: Manage major claims against carriers. Drive and support the implementation of cost-saving programs and opportunities. Review less-than truckload, cartage, drayage cost structures to identify opportunities for savings.
- RFI/RFP and Contract Standardization: Conduct RFIs and RFPs to identify the most suitable carriers.
- Market Analysis and Process Improvement: Analyze market trends related to transportation to proactively engage suppliers for future sourcing decisions.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university.
- Experience in logistics or Sourcing/procurement.
- Cost & cash savings negotiation experience with Supplier Owners/ Stakeholders, Key Account Managers/ Directors & Company Leaders / Decision Makers
- Fluent in English.
- Spanish Mid Level.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Excellent verbal and written communications.
- Strong program management and problem solving skills and collaboration across teams, functions and organization.
- _ Initiative, self-starter with a positive & pro-active approach_
- _ Very engaging, successfully collaborating with internal & external stakeholders on complex projects_
- _ Financial acumen and comfort with conducting business analytics, contract management, etc._

Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in the office located in Sumaré, São Paulo (SP).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life - both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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