Job Summary
Role
Part of the Business Area Performance Mineral EMEA (3500 employees, 80 plants, 15 countries & 1,2 billion euros Revenue), the Logistics Project Manager:
* Is part of the Supply Chain Continuous Improvement & Projects teams of the Business Area, focusing on Logistics continuous improvement projects
* Is the point of contact of the business area for wide projects such as Transwide rollout, DBS EDI/interface, transport pre-billing,...
The Logistics Project Manager works hands in hands with the Corporate teams and with the Business Area Logistics colleagues
* Is referent in his/her field of expertise, ensuring ad hoc training sessions and continuously contributing to the knowledge transfer towards the users
Responsibilities
Project management
* Leads continuous improvement projects to improve overall efficiency (both qualitative and quantitative) for the BA or be an active stakeholder for transversal projects across Imerys.
* As a referent for the Business Area Performance Minerals EMEA, is the point of contact & relay for Corporate projects
Knowledge sharing & skills development
* Support the logistics colleagues to be sure that the knowledge is well anchored and ensure needed support
* Ensures knowledge sharing across the Business Area by facilitating regular webinars / good practices sharing events
* Interacts beyond the Performance Minerals EMEA perimeter with the other Business Areas to benchmark and identify new solutions
* Maintain logistics optimization expertise and stay up-to-date with available tools and techniques
Analysis
* Perform analysis or Is involved in the preparation of the data collection and analysis to assess, drive and follow up initiatives
* Design and develop optimized logistics plans to achieve costs savings and/or service improvements in collaboration with the Logistics, Corporate teams, Purchasing teams,...
* Develop customer satisfaction by identifying rooms for improvement for our internal stakeholders, customers in collaboration with sales
* Design reporting tools on the efficiency of the Logistics flows and update / share them.
Accountability
* Logistic costs saving plans implementation
* Logistics plan implementation & update
* Logistics service level monitoring & improvement
Competencies and experience
Key competencies
* >5 years experience in logistics or supply chain positions
* Strong understanding of a logistics organisation
* Continuous improvement mindset and basic tools (5 Whys, Ishikawa, brainstorming, PDCA,A3 …)
* Project management
* Fluent in English, any other language is a plus
Soft skills
* Problem solver & facilitator
* Very good communication skills with ability to address a topic at different hierarchical levels
* At ease in a matrix environment with cross functional interactions
* Autonomous, comfortable with remote management
* Rigorous & at ease with data management
* Capacity to drive change and facilitate change management
* Pedagogic
* Very good analytical & IT reasoning skills. (TMS, SAP, Google,...)
Ideal background/ experience
* Bachelor or Master with Supply Chain, Logistics or Operations specialization
* Experienced in project management
Position Type
Full time
and
Permanent