Transportation Planner

Schedule: Hybrid, Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM–4:30 PM
Compensation: $61,360–$65,000 annually

Imagine what you can do at Land O’Lakes.

Our growth relies on extraordinary talent and boundless thinkers who are always looking for a better way and believe anything is possible. Like you, innovation and technology drive us.

At Land O’Lakes, you will be part of a community of creative doers and dreamers who want to make a difference. We work together—combining our global perspective and direct access to the source—to create practical, new solutions that meet agriculture’s toughest challenges.

Join the team at any Land O’Lakes location or with one of our retail owners and you’ll experience the optimism, honesty, and innovation that fuels everything we do. Together, we strive to feed human progress.

The Transportation Planner partners with multiple cross-functional teams—warehousing, customer service, deployment, sales, marketing, and more—to support operational excellence across the Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition, and WinField United divisions.

Key activities include planning outbound and inbound transportation, tracking and tracing shipments for on-time performance, leveraging transportation technology tools, and collaborating with transportation buyers regarding capacity and carrier service issues.

Transportation provides opportunities to deepen industry knowledge, gain formal and informal training, collaborate with various teams, and identify projects that support both your career development and departmental success.

Position Purpose:

Do you enjoy making moving parts come together? If so, a career as a Transportation Planner may be the perfect fit.

The Transportation Team, based in Arden Hills, MN, focuses on the planning and execution of outbound and inbound freight from roughly 290 U.S. facilities and shipping locations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage transportation events and optimize carrier utilization to ensure on-time delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Facilitate transportation activities including freight bill payment understanding, assisting Accounts Payable, and entering transportation claims.
• Coordinate, direct, and make decisions necessary to meet service goals.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external business partners such as Material Resource Planners, distribution centers, manufacturing teams, customer service representatives, and carrier partners.
• Address issues quickly and professionally.
• Identify and implement continuous process improvements, recommending cost-saving and service-enhancement opportunities.

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Supply Chain, or Logistics.
• 1+ years of logistics or related experience.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word).

Required Competencies & Skills

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable with conflict management while maintaining strong relationships.
• Adaptability and flexibility.
• Experience with TMS systems.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Experience

• OTM (a plus)
• FourKites (a plus)
• Sonar
• PowerBI