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Description
Closing Date:5/5/2024
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As a global leader in speciality chemicals, we continue to succeed and strengthen our delivery of innovative, sustainable and high-performance solutions. We are passionate and excited about how we can develop and utilise new technologies to shape and inspire changes within an ever-growing market place.
Croda prides itself on delivering excellent service to its customers and as part of this commitment, we are looking to recruit a Global Process Owner to identify and implement improvements in our supply chain logistics processes. You will have a high level of autonomy to own global business processes and software tools covering warehousing, internal distribution, and shipping through the Store to Deliver process. You will be responsible for gaining cross-functional alignment on the logistics requirements of the business to deliver an efficient and resilient supply chain, ensuring quality of product and service at every stage. Critical to success will be your ability to balance exceptional service with cost of delivery and sustainability impact.
The initial focus of the role will be technical and business process design to support Crodas SAP S/4HANA transformation, as well as defining warehousing standards and assessing opportunities for efficiency gains across the logistics network.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about logistics excellence to network globally and empower users by providing advice, guidance and mentoring to regional supply chain and logistics teams. In this role you will manage cross functional, regional and sector expectations on objectives, KPIs and success criteria for operating an effective logistics network that is business led and regionally delivered. You will develop and implement global procedures, training and performance monitoring to drive a formalised continuous improvement cycle that includes people, process, data and technology.
Benefits Package:
The successful candidate will receive a competitive benefits package including:
- Defined benefit pension scheme with death in service benefit
- 25 days paid holiday allowance (plus bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Free lunch in on-site restaurant
- Access to share plans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car leasing scheme
- Retail platform benefits
- Free car parking on Croda sites
Our ideal person
As a business, its really important to us that we find the best person for the job and that you have the best opportunity to succeed in the role. To help, we have outlined our expectations for the role and what core skills and experiences we require as well as what would make you an ideal fit. In turn, we hope this helps you evaluate if this is the right job for you.
Essentials:
- End-to-end supply chain experience, specialising in logistics
- Prior experience of defining and implementing logistics network improvements, covering warehousing and shipping
- Highly competent in process mapping, standardisation and design, and experience in delivering continuous improvement
- SAP expert (WM/SD modules particularly)
- Customer experience focused
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to motivate cross cultural teams at all levels of the organisation, whilst working effectively withcustomers, relevant industry bodies, consultants and suppliers
- Prior experience of leading projects aimed at driving value generation
- Enjoys implementing change and managing conflict within a highly entrepreneurial culture
- Strategic global perspective
- Collaborative and solutions orientated individual, who can balance creativity and innovation with delivery
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline
Desirables:
- Professional Supply Chain / Logistics qualification
- Analytics experience
- Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, etc
- Operations / Commercial experience
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