Logistics Specialist

Sazerac Company Overview

Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, BuzzBallz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.

We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries. Our Louisville office has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” four times, and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of “world’s most award-winning distillery” through the dedication of our craftsmen for well over 200 years. Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional, Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, entrepreneurial industry.

Job Description/Responsibilities

The Logistics Specialist is responsible for improving logistics services domestically and globally across the company, preparing optimized loads by weight and route, achieving on time pickups, scheduling, on-time deliveries, eliminating out of stocks, maximizing load factors, minimizing freight and storage costs and facilitating claims.  This position works with all domestic and global customers, facilities and partners.  Ensuring raw materials and finished products are transported safely and efficiently, balancing the costs and service levels and maintaining compliance with all government regulations.

• Build a customer service culture within Sazerac Operations of delivering world class customer service to our Global and Domestic customers internally and externally. Drive development of systems and processes that measure and deliver value from the customer's point of view.  Meeting or exceeding all customer service KPI's.
• Monitor and support all policies used across all Sazerac facilities domestic and global. Monitor and support tracking to ensure we are operating under the agreed upon policies and procedures.  To include: NCL - Northern Continental Logistics, daily, weekly, and monthly administration; review of all domestic/global accessorial charges, management of SCAC's (Standard Alpha Code) for S21 for all facilities to ensure correct reporting and Cargo.Net communications daily to inform facilities of theft potentials.
• Keep current PDS reviews and drive skills development. Create personal development plan to improve a skill/competency that will develop personal skills and improve personal performance.
• Support and implement programs and processes that generate both actual dollar savings, as well as, administrative savings. This will include the execution of Global and Domestic transportation bids, converting customers from collect to prepaid freight, fleet expansion and continually looking to optimize all current processes to remove excess waste. To include: NCL - Northern Continental Logistics, daily, weekly, and monthly administration; management of SCAC's (Standard Alpha Code) for S21 for all facilities to ensure correct reporting and Cargo.Net communications daily to inform facilities of theft potentials.
• Support development of KPI's across the company and drive adoption of the KPI's to measure and manage our business. To include: GUI freight table maintenance, and freight table maintenance communicated to EAPS.  Also, to support and maintain Carrier Scorecards and all related data integrity.
• Support the development of the Sazerac culture and the Operations culture to include the 5 C's, Consumers - Customers - Capability - Continuous Improvement = Competitive Advantage. A talented, capable and engaged organization that through continuous improvement delights worldwide consumers and customers with the highest quality spirits brands.

Qualifications/Requirements

MUST

• Bachelor's Degree
• Willingness to travel
• Detail Oriented
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Experience in process design, implementation and improvement
• Strong customer service aptitude, ability to work with all levels of the organization from Field Level to Executive Management
• Ability to communicate with all levels of an org
• Demonstrate the ability to work as a team as well as self-directed
• Ability to quickly learn new systems/processes
• Strong analytical and technical skills

PREFERRED

• Experience in Alcohol Beverage Industry or CPG overall
• 3 years experience in distribution, warehousing, and/or transportation
• 1 year Global supply chain experience

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work overtime if necessary
• In person work schedule 

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Culture and Benefits

A career at Sazerac offers you the opportunity to reach your full potential as part of a creative, decisive, high-performance team. Sazerac values the needs and wants of our team members and offers inclusive benefits to attract and retain the best talent. Our culture is built upon the values of hard work, diligence and personal responsibility.

Sazerac Team Members enjoy:

• Competitive Pay
• Comprehensive Benefits from Day One including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Family Coverage: Options to cover family members, including domestic partners.
• 401(k) Plan: Immediate access to a matching 401(k) plan.
• Flexible Time Away: Enjoy paid time off (PTO), holidays, and parental leave.
• Mental Health and Wellness: Access to mental health care and wellness incentive programs.
• Educational Support: Benefit from tuition reimbursement and our scholarship program for dependents of Sazerac team members.
• Fun Extras: Enjoy branded apparel, fun events, and a team member bottle purchase program.
• Training and Development: Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefits, salary range, and programs may vary by role or location. For roles within our commercial team - the Salary range refers to base salary only and does not include car allowance, annual bonus, fuel or cell phone reimbursement. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package. Sazerac is committed to equality of opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.

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