Must haves - Hand son experience in Supply chain Consulting, Cost optimization projects, Global Supply chain, Implementation of those solutions in a clients supply chain

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Problem Solving:

- Identification of customer's supply chain inefficiencies and driving business cases.

- Monitoring optimization project status, escalations in case of slow / lack of progress, definition of priorities, alignment on focus areas and resources.

- Addressing resistance to change.

- Eliminating barriers on the way to implement savings projects.

Savings target setting:

- Structural supply chain mapping / understanding of customer's business end-to-end.

- Value stream mapping

- Loss analysis, identification of strategic savings areas (cost / cash)

- Business case development

- Alignment on savings targets with the customer and Business Manager (value and timelines)

- Ensuring sufficiency of resources, priorities in alignment with Business Manager

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

Savings target is 100% aligned with customer and Business Manager

Savings pipeline development:

- Data gathering, cleaning, validation.

- Idea generation sessions, brainstorming internal and external (e.g. workshops with the customer).

- Collaboration with CI peers, CI corporate function, KNIL network engineering and procurement, logistics experts, key customer's stakeholders.

- Anchoring the baseline in alignment with the customer (key stakeholder incl. customer's finance).

- Savings evaluation and validation (size and timelines that would be required to deliver).

- Elaboration of various scenario of savings achievement, recommendation of best scenario to pursue.

- Identification of portfolio of savings projects for multi-year horizon, splitting them into quick wins / complex for realization, bigger / smaller potential, simulation of feasible realization timelines.

- Continuous development of a project pre-pipeline

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

Developed pipeline should cover or overachieve the saving target considering estimated delivery timeline and risks (time and probability adjustment)

Savings status tracking:

- Alignment on approach to savings calculation, tracking, reporting with customer / Business Manager

- Organizing savings tracker - underlying working files and visualization in Tableau dashboard (e.g. customizing IL CI standard templates, Corp CI Tracker)

- Setting up regular internal / external meetings to provide update on savings program status (e.g. QBR/MBR or dedicated CI meetings)

- Ensure ideas/pre pipeline will be transformed into projects.

- Leading action log after savings review meeting, following up on execution of actions.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

Savings tracking file (tool / dashboard) should ensure 100% clarity of status of savings program, efficient usage of tracking file, full trust from all internal and external stakeholders.

Savings delivery:

- Management of savings realization (preparation and execution of testing, documenting go live, post go live hyper care and registration of actual achievements).

- Leading project calls ensuring the progress of savings realization.

- Addressing risks, concerns, resistance to changes.

- Monitoring delivering of portfolio of savings, taking measures in case of lack progress or off-track developments.

- Responsibility of a gap analysis in case achieved savings vary significantly from expected savings.

- Escalation of lack of progress to customer / Business manager.