Logistics Specialist
Operations
Job Title: Logistics Specialist Location: Remote
Status: Full time, exempt
Reports to: Senior Manager, Distribution
Ancient Nutrition is a growing wellness brand focused on providing history’s healthiest, real food nutrients to today’s modern world. With a strong brand and passionate team, we are on a mission to provide best-in-class products with wholesome, clean ingredients that fuel the body and mind, restoring health, strength, and vitality.
Ancient Nutrition has quickly become a trusted supplement brand in the natural health channel. We believe history's most powerful superfoods can transform the health of every individual on the planet. That’s why we create high-quality supplements informed by ancient wisdom and modern science, while working toward a standard for how ingredients are grown that gives back to the soil instead of simply taking from it.
Ancient Nutrition is seeking a motivated and experienced Logistics Specialist to support freight, transportation, and distribution activities across our supply chain. This role coordinates the timely, accurate, and cost-effective movement of inventory while supporting distribution operations, inventory accuracy, system transactions, and communication with internal and external partners.
Core Responsibilities
- Coordinate finished goods movements from contract manufacturers to 3PL locations, including shipment planning, freight scheduling, delivery appointments, shipment consolidation, and truckload utilization.
- Maintain the inbound load board and monitor shipments from product readiness through delivery, providing timely visibility and helping resolve delays, missed appointments, shortages, and other transportation exceptions.
- Ensure shipments meet Ancient Nutrition quality and shipping requirements and provide 3PL partners with accurate shipment details and documentation.
- Maintain accurate Transfer Orders, Item Fulfillments, freight documentation, and related inventory transactions in NetSuite to support inventory control and alignment with 3PL systems.
- Support inventory allocations, transfers, and rebalancing across 3PLs and sales channels based on approved forecasts, demand, and inventory plans.
- Plan and execute Amazon FBA replenishment shipments through Seller Central, including shipment plan creation, inventory allocation, shipment coordination, and follow-through to support FBA in-stock availability.
- Support day-to-day distribution operations by researching and helping resolve inventory, receiving, shipping, system, freight, billing, and reconciliation discrepancies across NetSuite, Deposco, and 3PL systems.
- Coordinate with freight brokers and carriers and support freight sourcing, rate evaluations, and
carrier selection to maintain competitive costs, reliable capacity, and efficient transportation lanes.
- Track and report transportation and distribution KPIs, identifying exceptions, trends, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Operations, Inventory, contract manufacturers, carriers, and 3PL teams to support efficient inventory movement and distribution operations.
- Support special projects and distribution initiatives, including product launches, promotional builds, kitting projects, and other inventory movements.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in logistics, transportation, supply chain, distribution, or a related field, including experience coordinating freight movements, carriers, brokers, and/or 3PL providers.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience working within ERP and WMS systems; NetSuite and Deposco experience preferred.
- Experience with Amazon Seller Central, including planning and executing FBA shipment plans and coordinating inventory replenishment into Amazon fulfillment centers.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and make sound day-to-day operational decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across internal teams and external partners.
- Working knowledge of warehouse, distribution, and fulfillment operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or a related field preferred, but not required.
Core Values
- Run to win the race - do everything with excellence.
- Committed to constant growth - refine and improve self and work daily.
- Take ownership - take initiative.
- Be a purpose-driven leader/team player - be reliable and responsible.
- Fight for one another and others - play as a team and work well with others.
Benefits
Work is about what you do, not where you do it. Ancient Nutrition has many team members located near Nashville, TN, but we are a fully remote company and are able to hire from across the US. Ancient Nutrition is a laid-back, fast-paced place to be. We work hard because we love what we’re building. We hire great people who take ownership and do not need to be micromanaged.
We offer health insurance benefits, basic life insurance, and access to affordable vision, dental, and disability insurance. Unlimited Paid Time Off is available for salary employees, with a generous amount of paid time off accrual for hourly employees. Paid maternity and paternity leave are also offered.
If you feel this role is meant for you, write us a cover letter telling us why you are the best fit and why you want to work with us. We really do read them.