Transport Specialist

Berlin Packaging is the world’s largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier®, providing packaging solutions in glass, plastic, and metal to companies across a wide range of industries, including food & beverage, beauty, healthcare, and industrial markets. As a “one-stop shop,” we combine design & innovation, manufacturing services, and supply chain capabilities to help customers bring their products to market in the most efficient and impactful way. With more than a century of experience in the packaging industry, Berlin Packaging operates on a global scale, supported by an extensive network of suppliers, warehouses, and commercial teams. This unique hybrid model allows the company to offer both standard and highly customized solutions, helping customers increase sales, reduce costs, and improve productivity through smarter packaging.

What sets Berlin Packaging apart is its entrepreneurial mindset and strong customer focus. Employees are encouraged to think like owners, act decisively, and collaborate across functions and geographies to deliver measurable results.

Core Beliefs:

The company’s culture is built around innovation, creativity, speed, and a continuous drive to “help customers become greater, faster ,” making it a dynamic environment for people who want to make an impact.

Job Purpose

The Transport Specialist is responsible for planning, organizing and monitoring transportation activities, primarily supporting the Italian business while providing backup support across EMEA when needed.

The role focuses on ensuring shipments are executed efficiently, service levels are maintained and customer needs are met. This includes coordinating carriers, monitoring transport execution, managing operational issues, controlling transportation costs and supporting day-to-day transportation activities.

The position plays a key role in maintaining operational continuity, supporting a high-volume workload and identifying practical opportunities to improve transportation efficiency and service performance.

Key Accountabilities:

Manage daily transportation operations for the Italian business

• Plan and organize transportation activities according to business priorities and customer requirements.
• Coordinate carriers to ensure timely and efficient execution of shipments.
• Monitor shipments from origin to destination and proactively address delays, disruptions or service issues.
• Manage urgent and exceptional transportation requests while maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction.

Drive transportation efficiency and cost control

• Identify opportunities to optimize transportation planning, shipment consolidation and carrier utilization.
• Leverage transportation systems and available tools to improve efficiency while maintaining agreed service levels.
• Verify transportation invoices against contracted rates and support cost control activities.
• Monitor transportation service performance through operational KPIs and carrier performance indicators.

Support continuous improvement and operational excellence

• Contribute ideas and practical improvements to simplify transportation processes and increase operational effectiveness.
• Support the adoption and effective use of transportation systems and tools.
• Collaborate with colleagues across logistics, customer service, sales and other functions to resolve operational challenges and improve service quality.
• Actively contribute to a positive, collaborative and customer-oriented working environment.

Organization & Team Structure

The position reports to the Transport Manager and is part of the EMEA Transport organization.

The role works closely with logistics operations, customer service, sales teams, warehouses, carriers and other internal stakeholders to ensure the effective execution of transportation activities.

The position has no direct reports.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Education & Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent qualification required.
• Additional education in logistics, transportation or supply chain is considered a plus.
• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in transportation planning, carrier coordination and shipment execution.
• Experience working in operational environments with demanding service requirements.

Technical Skills:

• Good knowledge of transportation processes and road freight operations.
• Experience using Transportation Management Systems (TMS) or similar logistics platforms.
• Good analytical capabilities and confidence working with operational KPIs.
• Good Excel skills for operational analysis and reporting.

Languages:

• Fluent English, both written and spoken, is required.
• Additional European languages are considered a plus.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong customer orientation, both internal and external.
• Collaborative and team-oriented mindset.
• Passion for delivering high-quality work and solving operational challenges.
• Strong ownership and reliability in day-to-day execution.
• Pragmatic, hands-on and action-oriented approach.
• Ability to remain effective under changing priorities and operational pressure.

Key Success Factors:

• Delivering transportation activities accurately, efficiently and with high service levels.
• Demonstrating ownership and accountability in managing daily operational responsibilities.
• Maintaining strong relationships with carriers and internal stakeholders.
• Identifying practical opportunities to improve transportation efficiency and cost performance.
• Providing reliable support to the team while contributing positively to collaboration and business continuity.
• Consistently focusing on solutions rather than obstacles in a fast-paced operational environment.

Yearly Salary Range: 32 – 38K EUR