Supply Chain LD&T Sr Associate - French Speaking

Overview

This role is responsible for coordinating activities within the warehouse teams. Scope is inclusive of 3rd Party Logistics operations within the French BU and is key to ensuring inventory is administered correctly. The role holder will have to work with warehouse, cost accounting, 3PL teams and customer collaboration. The role ensures correct remedial handling of returns, availability of stock and planning for new deliveries and will be a key contact for 3PL operational issue resolution.

Responsibilities

Transportation Operations (3rd Party transporters & warehouses)

• Manage 3rd party Transporters Day to day operations

o Collecting orders received from Transportation planning & DRPs & PAPs and send them to 3rd party via systems

o Manage timely notification about picking completion by 3rd party

o Communicate with 3rd party on daily basis to review progress and resolve day to day operational issues

o Provide forecast details on weekly basis and provide weekly schedule for display building

• Manage 3rd party Warehouses

o Inbound dashboard reporting (e.g. OTD, Carrier Acceptance, Inflation, Ad hoc, etc.).

o Book slot and capacity in warehouse.

o Provide relevant transportation information to warehousing for slot booking and capacity planning.

o Manage issues and refusals.

• Carrier Managment & Planning

o Insert costs into the system incl. claims management.

o Align with customer service and Transportation Planning team to discuss mitigation actions.

o Support for any issue (returns, refusals) and communicate to planner the cost adjustments (additional stop, returns with cost involvement etc.).

o Receive information about refusal order (order refused after reaching customer premise) and inform other teams (e.g. warehouse and customer service).

o Create and place all purchase orders with vendors for logistics services and coordinate proper invoicing.

o Provide information of freight costs for shipping companies.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in English and French (written and spoken C1)

• Working knowledge of gTMS

• Demonstrated stakeholder management experience with both internal and external transporters & warehouses working within logistics operational environment (usually min 2 yrs exp.)

• Prior working knowledge of stock planning and inventory management required

• Working Knowledge of MRP required (pref. SAP)

• Working Knowledge of Power Apps/BI or similar reporting dashboard software preferable

• Excel & Office package advanced knowledge mandatory

• Demonstrated coordination of disparate groups to drive problem resolution