*The role is being recruited as a fixed term contract for a length of 6 months*
Main Responsibilities:
- Understand and contribute to Southeast Asia (SEA) supply chain flows and network
- Manage inventory levels to balance costs and meet demand for both direct markets and distributors
- Oversee the demand and supply planning team and processes
- Hold ownership of the sales planning and distribution process
- Collaborate with the distributors for sales forecast accuracy and stock coverage management
- Facilitate the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process within the SEA cluster
- Control the logistics management, oversee the movement of goods, including transportation, warehousing, and distribution
- Understand and apply customs rules and regulations by market, as well as triangulation flow (specific to Asia Pacific Region)
- Manage the involvement of the FTA for some markets, customs duties, documentation in import and export and others
- Support the team in reducing global lead times and enhancing supply chain reactivity
- Understand and apply the local regulations and implication regarding product registration for the different markets
- Supervise and guide the product registration process to needed to enable the business growth
- Execute order to cash process, with relevant customer service
- Apply relevant Ferrero group standard and policies and commercial sense, while dealing with sales and customer in supply chain discussions
- Provide the budget management: plan, control, and optimize financial resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency
- Contribute to annual budget preparation, that includes forecasting expenses (predict future costs based on historical data, market trends, and business objectives), scenario analysis (importance of understanding historical set up), expense monitoring, cost optimization through knowledge of transportation routes, rules and regulations and others
- Apply lean management principles through continuous improvement and day by day activities
- Improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness, by focusing on delivering value to customers and eliminating waste
Who we are looking for:
- University degree, preferably in Supply Chain, Economics or Industrial/Management Engineering
- Knowledge of Supply Chain in different areas (Logistics, Planning, Customer Service and project management), relevant experience in FMCG industry
- Strong analytical ability and cognitive thought, high result orientation and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage complexities with multiple variables, flexibility and adaptability to change
- High attention to details and precision, critical thinking
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills, with ability manage multiple stakeholders and synthesize their inputs
- Agility and capability of adapting / multi-tasking in a fast paced and continuously changing environment
- High sense of responsibility and proactivity i.e. anticipate problems and propose solutions
- Strong team leadership and team collaboration
- Advanced MS Office skills, Power BI, VBA , SAP ECC / APO, predictive statistic understanding
- Fluency in English, written and spoken; any other language is considered a plus
