Supply Chain Analyst

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**Position Objective**

This role is a key change agent for optimisation initiatives across End-to-End Supply Chain. The individual will be responsible for providing direction and expertise to the assigned Market(s) Supply Chain Fulfilment team in areas of Warehousing, Transportation and Freight, to enable the Market(s) to drive improvement in achieving better operational profitability ($), efficiency and increased agility. This role will also support the Market’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) development, rollout and governance and provide Analytics support to identify & pin point key focus areas for the Fulfilment organization.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Create, maintain and govern Fulfilment team **KPI dashboards** by building understanding of all supply chain metrics and success measures to drive operational and business performance.
- Work with department managers to create functionally-owned team KPI dashboards and improve data management processes with data integrity and compliance in mind.
- Provide **coaching and mentor support** to fulfilment team members in enabling effective operational performance management as appropriate to their roles and support market in driving accountability/governance processes to improve operational performance.
- Ownership of data **Analytics** to:

- Identify trends, risks and focus area.
- Identify and support projects & continuous improvement initiatives.
- Engage teams in management of their own performance vs business objectives
- Regular review performance gaps and action plans.
- Work with regional stakeholders to ensure Global and Regional scorecards represent accurate monthly supply chain performance.
- Govern and drive SC Value Improvement Programme (**VIPs**) including escalation of risks to pipeline and ensuring project owners are assigned and held accountable.
- Present opportunities for efficiency gain (**Process Improvement**) to Fulfilment Leader(s) and market supply chain team and support market in executing continuous improvement projects where appropriately assigned.
- Drive governance and provide support to the markets’ **improvement projects pipeline** to minimize and reduce Supply Chain costs as a % of net sales assigned.
- Support market(s) in the deployment of **Regional strategic projects** such as TMS, EMS etc and as assigned from Global/Region.
- Able to provide, present and articulate a **deep level of understanding** to the market(s) challenges, opportunity areas and key focus area.
- Support Commercial and Finance colleagues to develop and implement **robust financial budgeting and management processes**, e.g. MOR, Long Range Planning, Budgeting - Operational Budget
- Work with IT groups to identify and leverage available **digital platforms** for visual performance tracking (e.g Tableau, Sales Force, etc).

**Qualifications, Experience & Skills**

**Qualifications**
- Relevant Bachelor Degree, preferably in Supply Chain or Engineering

**Experience**
- At least 5+ years of experience in a data-driven insights (analytics) and process optimization role.
- Working knowledge of strategy deployment, performance measures and financial/supply chain platforms.
- Experience in Transportation, Warehousing and International Freight improvement projects.
- Experience in engagement with 3rd party logistics providers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience in the healthcare industry.
- Experience of corporate business environments and stakeholder engagement
- Proficient in English Language

**Reasonable Accommodations**

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