The Network provides a sophisticated service model across a diverse range of products. The customer base includes strategic, key and regional accounts. It is of paramount importance for our teams to challenge the status quo, constantly trying to develop better solutions, minimising costs and striving to add value to all stakeholders, most notably the company’s shareholders, customers and the wider business alike.
The role supports the supply chain team and the wider operations function with analysis, reporting, the design, development and implementation of the supply chain and operations solutions across the Network and the DC. The role requires significant business acumen, project management, data analysis and stakeholder management skills to be successful in providing an excellent customer service offering.
Main Tasks and Deliverables:
* Work with suppliers, investigate and resolve challenges and introduce improvements to the way supply chain teams replenish inventory, setting up EOQs, and implementing cost-effective methods of delivery in a demanding customer centric environment
* Support the initiatives around the reduction of the company’s non and slow moving stocks
* Regularly validate lead times for all suppliers as necessary
* Support supply chain teams with their objective to deliver constantly high availability of products, as per the agreed service levels
* Support to deliver key supply chain processes, projects and change activities
* Constantly seek to automate work intensive, time pressured activities by e.g. delivering actionable insights utilising a vast array of systems the company operates on and/or acting upon the feedback from internal stakeholders
* Analysis of reporting, pattern discovery, followed by an action plan to deliver optimal supply chain set up
* Preparation of a variety of supply chain reports for senior stakeholders
* Respond to the Network with any supply chain queries, whether system or process related, making necessary amendments where relevant
Key Stakeholders:
1. Rubix Branches and Insites
2. Specialist functions e.g. IT, Finance, Marketing, Customer Services
3. Key and Regional Account Teams
4. Central Purchasing and Supply Chain
5. Logistics teams
6. Product and commercial teams
Skills and Experience
1. Ability to review situations from a number of different perspectives
2. Dynamic, innovative and results-orientated operational individual
3. Commercial, numerate and financially literate
4. Strong Excel skills including XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables
5. Structured and organised – with appropriate level to planning and detail, and ability to quickly drive to the root cause of problems and help generate solutions/recovery
6. Very good eye to detail
7. A passion to engage teams to deliver service excellence and business results
8. A drive to continuously look for improvement opportunities, and to make things work better
9. Experience working in a corporate environment, especially in supply chain and/or other analytical roles an advantage though not essential as training will be provided in the role