Technical Lead - Quality Shared Service

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Translate the demand plan into a purchase & inventory plan
. Validate Supply Value Plan & Demand over Capacity Files with demand analyst
. Organize / Prepare monthly Collaborative Supply Operation Planning (CSOP) meetings & minutes of meeting (in house or by suppliers, visit)
. Feedback / communicate supply issues to Demand Planning team
. Issue purchase orders & purchase plans to vendors (ZPOD)
. Follow up on spend
. Follow-up on outstanding purchase orders & chase suppliers
. Issue priority lists
. Vendor Shipping Performance & Past Due weekly reporting
. Clean up the order book (vendor reconciliations)
. Build / maintain good relation with suppliers (conference calls, emails, communicator)
. Monitor and redistribute excess inventory between different warehouses
. Stock redistribution / follow up on inventory target
. Analyze / recommend on prime warehousing strategy
. Monitor non/slow moving inventory and recommend actions (e.g. repacking)
. Analysis / Follow up IQR (Inventory Quality Report)
. Coordinate repacking & rebranding initiatives
. Coordinate corrective actions to restore product & package quality
. Answer customer availability inquiries & Key Customer backorder follow up
. Follow up Customer Fill Rate, analyze missed lines (NNA) and root cause
. Coordinate with Product marketing on New Product Introduction and promotions
. Follow up NPI (GRE) - Place orders and communicate first delivery to Product Marketing
. Manage Master data & forecast availability
. Manage material master data
. Understanding master data + keep data base clean
. Coordinate with DC-staff and suppliers on physical logistics (lean supply program)
. MOQ / RV based on unit packs / layer sizes / pallet sizes
. Continuously improve processes
. Manage blocked invoice (Unipay) /follow up on EDI errors
. Assist product & purchasing team with YN parts / constraint parts

KEY INTERFACES:
. Internal: Internal stakeholders (Plants, Marketing, Product Management, Purchasing, Pricing, Finance, Logistics, management)
. External: Suppliers

REQUIREMENTS:

EDUCATION:
. Minimum/Essential: Bachelor's degree preferably in business, logistics, supply chain or engineering
. Desirable: Master's degree in applied economics, engineering or similar

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
. Good knowledge of MRP: SAP (material master data knowledge)
. Elaborated Excel skills ( pivot tables)

. Power BI visualization skills are considered a plus
. Fluent in English, other languages are an asset

CORE COMPETENCIES:
. Analytical / Methodical thinking
. Action oriented & Problem solving
. Communicative
. Attention to details