Senior Supply and Logistics Specialist, Asia
Date Posted: February 10, 2023
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Reports To: Commercial Manager, Logistics, Asia
Location: Hong Kong
Duration: Full-time
Position Summary
Reporting to the Commercial Manager, Logistics, Asia, you will have responsibilities in:
- Data Analysis – Assisting the Operations Team in data gathering, providing insightful analysis and recommendations.
- Project Management – Support conducting studies and delivering on logistics, supply chain and marketing related commercial projects.
- Operations – Execution of spot purchasing and swaps for the Asia Region.
- Supply chain management – Lead supply & demand planning for the SEA market to ensure supply reliability while maintaining low costs and smooth operations.
- Relationship Management – Main focal point of operational contact with strategic swap and offtake suppliers in Asia, and account owner for specific Logistics service provider contracts.
- Budgeting and Reporting – Responsible for Asia logistics budget and preparation of departmental and mangaement reports.
- Inventory management – Work with local teams to effectively monitor, evaluate and report on Inventory levels across stocking points, to ensure balance between maintaining sufficient inventory and ensuring strategic purchasing gaps.
- Contracting – Handle documentation, invoicing, price and volume reconciliation and contract renewals for relevant swaps and offtakes.
- Provide back up for the China region and Global Supply Chain teams with respect to some or all of the above tasks.
Position Responsibilities
Supply Chain Management & Support
- Gather and maintain market information on all Customer Service & Logistics areas of activities, including barging, trucking, terminals, consultants, in order to ensure proper market understanding and up-to-date knowledge by the team.
- Create and maintain reports for sharing logistics market information.
- Provide incremental analysis in support of the CS and Supply Chain teams with regards to supplier performance
- Co-ordinate with swap and offtake partners to ensure reliable supply to SEA and ANZ region.
- Identify purchasing needs to support supply planning for SEA and ANZ. This includes all associated tasks, including documentation.
- Provide inputs to Commercial Manager in order to help formulate a robust offtake & swap strategy for Asia region. Recommendations to be backed by data analysis, performance tracking and marketing considerations.
- Identify process improvement opportunities for executing swap and offtake agreements smoothly.
- Responsible in monitoring inventory levels and to recommend adequate safety stock levels across all terminal assets in the region.
Budgeting & Reporting Activities
- Responsible for Asia logistics budget which includes monitoring actual vs budget costs on a per month basis.
- Assists in monitoring and reporting Asia KPIs and seeks optimizations by analyzing logistics costs structure and regional setup.
- Primary supply chain and logistics liaison with the regional Finance and Marketing teams (for reporting purposes) and is in-charge of providing regional swap, offtake and spot purchasing updates to Global Supply Chain.
- Assist in the data collection and collation of CS&L sections of the Management report.
- Evaluate and implement continuous improvement (CI) initiatives to improve and streamline logistics costs and budgeting tools.
- Support the integration of Oracle reporting with existing logistics costs and budgeting tools with the Finance team.
Strategic planning & Commercial projects support
- Maintain database for operations monitoring and performance review of 3rd party partners and suppliers.
- Manage commercial contracts and relationships with Logistics service providers and to lead negotiations for contract renewals.
- Provide support to Commercial Manager on activities which may include, but not limited to, spot market analyses, procurement KPI’s.
- Provide support to the CS&L team for potential ad hoc projects related to supply chain performance.
- Support analysis of logistics and supply chain alternatives to improve MX profitability/ Netback.
- Play a key project team member role on strategic high-value logistics, supply chain and market/business development projects to support sales growth in Asia.
- Maintain database to track and report competitor logistics capabilities.
- Support Commercial Manager to conduct comprehensive logistics infrastructure and capability review across the region, as well as to monitor performance of logistics service providers.
Responsible Care
- Conducts all business in a manner which supports the Responsible Care® ethic.
- Under guidance from Commercial Manager, assist in performing Know your supplier checks for new swap/offtake/spot partners, and Responsible Care assessments for potential new locations in line with global requirements.
Position Qualifications
Education
- University degree and experience/training in relevant field (e.g. Economics, Supply Chain, or Logistics Management), MBA an asset.
Experience and Technical Skills/Knowledge
- Minimum four (4) years of experience in a data or supply chain analyst role
- Proven experience with data manipulation and basic excel modelling
- Proven experience in project management and execution
- High English proficiency (Both written and verbal)
- Strong computer skills in Office applications (Exce;, PowerPoint, Word)
- Modelling capability in Excel; PowerBI knowledge an asset
- Knowledge in Oracle ERP systems and reporting a plus
- Supplier or vendor management experience a plus
- Budgeting and cost management experience a plus
Personality and Soft Skills
- Strong communication skills in a multi-cultural environment
- Analytical mind and strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent team working skills
- Highly motivated with drive for customer service excellence
- Capable to manage stress in dynamic environment
- Pro-active and can-do attitue
- Not afraid to take initiative and propose new ideas
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