Distribution and Logistics Planner

Posted Friday, February 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Sensience is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered sensing, control, and sealing components.

We deliver mission-critical protection and valuable data for a wide range of systems, including appliances, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration units, industrial process equipment, motor vehicles, and aerospace. We have nearly 3,000 employees worldwide across 6 manufacturing facilities dedicated to keeping people and their homes safe.

Sensience brings a track record of over 75 years of innovation, quality, specialized expertise, a highly collaborative approach, and a commitment to growth – working together with our customers as valuable partners, helping to meet their critical objectives. We recently re-established ourselves as an independent company and looking for entrepreneurial minded candidates to help our company grow.

We are seeking an adaptable Distribution Planner that is flexible to communicate with our Asia manufacturing sites daily on changes and requirements needed to satisfy our customers and assist us to strive for operational excellence. They will be responsible for planning & coordinating shipments from the manufacturing plants to the Hebron KY Distribution Center (CLC/HDC). Daily responsibility for Intra Co. Purchase Order & Sales Order Planning and Inventory availability.

Intra Co PO planning will be done in accordance to end customer CRD availability and optimization of Freight Cost & Shipping modes. Various Intra Co FG Kanban boards for the CLC/HDC will also be the responsibility of the Distribution Planner.

• Ensure proper placement of Intra Co Purchase orders & Sales Orders with Correct Incoterms, Lead time and Mode of Transport
• Ensures that the dates are correct and updated in the Oracle ERP system
• Coordinates with the manufacturing facilities and Shipping departments for timely delivery of the incoming shipments to the (CLC/HDC) Hebron KY Distribution Center.
• Follow-up on overdue sales orders in the manufacturing plants, planning the best ship method to avoid disruptions in the supply chain and delivery to the customers.
• Join weekly MPS meetings with each MFG site for capacity constraints
• Communicate current Lead time and ATP to CLC/HDC CSR team.
• Work with MFG site in optimizing Batch sizes, Packaging and Expedite freight

• Administrator of KB FG Loops
• Respond to empty cards & Replenish PO’s
• Monthly KB calculator review with CLC/HDC Distribution Manager
• Monthly review of health status of KB board
• Add / reduce Styles and cards to the board

• Determine and select proper Freight mode for all Inbound Shipments to CLC/HDC (Rail, Air, Express, Ocean)
• Provides information to the warehouse and CSRs on inbound shipments
• Monitoring and follow-up with the designated transport companies on the ETA of the incoming shipments
• Measures and communicates Inbound logistics Forwarder performance
• Ensures that the correct forwarders are used, as agreed in the annual Approved Sensience Routing Guide.
• Ensure correct pricing for each freight mode is known
• Create and processes premium Freight Board Requests (F ) for expedites in a timely manner in accordance with approved guidelines.
• Monthly review of Inbound freight cost by mode with Sensing & Protection Logistics team

• Responsible for maintaining proper FG Inventory levels in CLC/HDC
• Maintains the customer’s Safety / Consignment stock at the agreed levels by monitoring actual inventory levels, customers expected demand and actual production orders.
• Monthly Inventory Projections & Inventory Exhibit with Distribution manager
• Inventory accuracy and Quarterly reconciliation of Excess & Obsolete

• Spokesperson for CSR and Sales team towards Logistics and Transportation performance
• Improve Logistics Outbound performance with Forwarders
• Ensure proper RMA returns handling and Samples Logistics flow
• Address packaging, labelling, repack where appropriate
• Ensure that customer & all transaction screening is…