Job Description
WE ARE MINDFUL, ORIGINAL, & BOLD Phospholutions, Inc. is an award-winning and venture-backed agtech start-up company enhancing global phosphorus use. Phospholutions is experiencing exponential growth with the recent launch of their proprietary RhizoSorb® technology helping reduce the environmental impact of fertilizers and helping growers achieve more from their crop inputs.
Headquartered in State College, PA, Phospholutions is growing their team to support the commercial launch of RhizoSorb® technology following multiple years of successful field trials, three decades of academic research, and backed by leading industry investors, with a
Bulk Logistics Planner . The p referred location for this role is in Missouri but open to other locations for the right candidate.
We are looking for a self-motivated supply chain professional with experience moving bulk materials specifically by vessel, barge, and rail. If you are seeking a new career opportunity executing day-to-day purchasing, inventory management, warehousing, logistics, and market analysis and financial forecasting activities related to raw materials, production, and finished goods and improve accuracy and customer service and have success improving accuracy and customer service, we highly encourage you to apply for this position! JOB OBJECTIVE We value energy, passion, authenticity, creativity…and results! The individual hired for this position will have significant experience moving bulk material in rail, barge and vessel logistics. Candidates applying with this experience will be prioritized over other candidates. The Bulk Logistics Planner will assume ownership of and perform a diverse range of tasks, becoming an essential business partner to the Operations team, helping to manage, implement, and achieve critical operations and supply chain objectives and strategies. The Bulk Logistics Planner serves as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders regarding material movement and supply chain actions and forecasting.
Among other responsibilities, this position requires an understanding of fertilizer production, commodity industries, best practices for material movement, and working knowledge of supply chain actions and forecasting. This position will examine existing procedures, opportunities, and relationships to identify opportunities for streamlining activities to meet production and distribution needs while maintaining governance processes to ensure all stakeholders are appropriately involved. The Bulk Logistics Planner will direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory . Additionally, this individual will play a role in support of the commercial and finance departments with tasks related to reporting and forecasting. This individual will work alongside the Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams to ensure company success. This individual will report to our Vice President of Supply Chain.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS/ABILITIES The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate core competencies in the following areas:
- Must have hands-on experience with rail carriers (e.g. CSX and UP) and/or inland waterway operations (e.g. Mississippi River, Gulf Coast terminals)
- Coordination of finished goods and raw material shipments, including frequent interaction with ports, logistics services providers, suppliers, and customers
- Execution of logistics transport in varying modes such as bulk vessel, barge, rail, bulk trucking and others are needed and/or required
- Development and management of activities related to finished goods, production, and raw material shipment schedules and financial forecast as well as control of inventory
- Establishment and management of relationships with warehousing clients/contacts for storage of material in US and internationally
- Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost(s)
- Provide status updates, controls, and shipment follow-up reports to internal teams and external stakeholders
- Maintain strong governance processes to ensure all stakeholders involved (i.e. Procurement, Transportations, Operations, Finance, Supplier, and Customers) are in alignment on raw material management
- Understanding and interpreting commercial and operational requirements to meet delivery expectations
- Supporting commercial and finance areas including required processing and reporting
- Troubleshooting logistic issues to provide excellent supply chain management and delivery performance
- Leading digital tool deployment supporting efforts on centralizing and standardizing how to plan and execute finished goods, production, and raw material inventory controls
- Development of value-add analytics to support decision making
- Understanding, highlighting, and presenting capacity constraints and work collaboratively with Commercial, Operations, and Finance teams on resolutions as needed
- Development and presentation of recommendations to improve cost to service customer as business scales
- Providing input and recommendation on improving supply chain strategies, policies and practices to achieve best-in-class supply chain management practices
- Providing back up on functions such as shipment execution and planning
- Leading market intelligence analysis and internal reporting in fertilizer markets, transportation markets, and other relevant markets.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE - Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Accounting, Engineering, or Logistics or related field from an accredited university or college
- Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience in supply chain planning
- Experience with bulk material movement by vessel, rail, and truck
- Specific experience in moving fertilizer, grain, seed or other agricultural commodity products in the mid-west United States and internationally
- Market intelligence experience with commodity industries (fertilizer, transportation, etc.)
- Experience with supply chain technology/application or deployment of digital tools
- Demonstrated experience developing processes and optimizing supply chain/logistics service within an organization
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS - Applicant must have experience with bulk material movement by vessel, barge and rail
- Applicant must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, continuous basis. This company does not sponsor applicants for work visas
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to multiple work locations as needed; 10-20% travel anticipated
- Strong knowledge of fertilizer production
- Financial acumen to translate supply chain actions or future planning efforts into financial impacts
- Strong time management skills and proven ability working with short deadlines
- Self-motivation and drive to exceed goals while working effectively with minimal direction
- Critical thinking, problem solving and deductive and inductive reasoning
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills
- Project management skills
- Fluent in English language
- “Day-1 Expert-level” proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Background checks (criminal/education/employment/reference/credit/DMV) will be performed; results must be satisfactory to the company.
- If hired, must adhere to all company policies and procedures and other prescribed best practices/industry standards
- Fluent in other languages to assist in improved communications with external international partners and clients preferred but not required
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The job is primarily performed indoors in a traditional office setting
- When travelling to production/supplier facilities, employees may be required to wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) which may include eye, hearing and respiratory protection, protective smock, or face shields. Contact lenses may not be allowed in some areas in or around confined spaces with some exposure to chemicals, grease, and oils, fumes and/or other compounds
LOCATION Preferred location is Missouri but open to other locations for the right candidate.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - This is an IMMEDIATE opportunity ! We are actively seeking an awesome new team member and will be accepting applications through July 11, 2025. After that date, the position may be closed or placed on hold as we internally review applications, so we strongly encourage interested applicants to apply by the deadline.
- Our company utilizes E-Verify to verify employment eligibility. You can learn about this program by visiting the E-Verify website .
- The Company reserves the right to alter, change, modify and/or terminate this job posting at any time without notice, or obligation. No recruiters, please; principal applicants only.
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Phospholutions, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, familial status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to jboney@phospholutions.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
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