Transport & Logistics Specialist - Global ETO

at  Schneider Electric

Job Description:

WHAT SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL?

• Master’s degree in economics, commercial or industrial sciences, engineering or logistics
• at least 5-7 years’ experience in Supply Chain Environment with team management experience
• Fluency in English language
• You have strong people and project management skills to initiate and lead change to improve performance
• Synthetic by nature but with good analytical abilities, problem-solving, and organizational skills and the ability to start projects/initiatives from scratch
• You are an advanced Information System user with a strong interest in logistics software and new communication technologies that ease quick and user-friendly communication
• Excellent communicator, you are strong at negotiating with external parties and encouraging win/win collaboration inside Schneider Electric
• Creative mindset and eager to bring & deploy at a fast pace innovation into the last mile delivery

Transport

• Provide expert support on Transportation, Global Trade at the plant level, and Procurement team: upstream and downstream flows
• Support all transport flows to step up operational excellence (on-time delivery & quality per customer segment at the best cost efficiency)
• Introduce the best technologies into our logistics department thereby contributing to customer experience and supplier effectiveness (eg. Improving visibility and automated communication)
• Determine, monitor, and analyze the transport KPIs and cost drivers to better manage performance and improve logistics productivity. Define and implement improvement actions, and recommendations, get buy-in, and implement actions to achieve productivity.
• Network Design: optimize and simplify logistic flow costs accordingly (supplier optimization, existing regular lines, packaging, warehousing, CO2 reduction).
• Open new regular lanes with the support of the IP team
• Regular support on operations with Plant: RFQ support, Insurance Claims, Tax and Customs issues
• Ensure that all activities are compliant with current legislation and health and safety standards.
• Define the best transportation network strategy within corporate strategy & initiatives
• Initiate transport offers evolution aligned with CLO (transportation plan, services, Go Green initiatives)
• Support and work closely with the procurement team to review and rationalize our transport contracts with 3rd parties: from defining needs, preparing technical requirements, providing transport data, selecting the right partners, and supporting negotiating clear SLAs at competitive prices by improving service quality
• Support and recommend developing teams at plants with key competencies to be able to bring transport to the next level of contribution in the frame of future supply chain & customer-centricity
• Improve service level by identifying optimization of processes and procedures Reports
• To compile shipping data for management reporting (ASR, FTA Saving, inbound transport cost) and flow formulation
• Perform analysis of transport cost and shipping tonnage

Category management support

• Animate S6 category Transport for Solution: mutualization with R4, strategic development of very specific suppliers answering to the project specificities.
• Business review with forwarders on project scope. Manage and monitor the performance of freight forwarders, transporters, and customs brokerage to ensure on-time delivery of shipments for projects.
• Work jointly with freight forwarders on global/regional transport plan deployment to minimize transition difficulties during the implementation Customer Management
• Secure panel utilization

Community

• Take part of transport expert Community: build bridge between Front Office and Back Office
• Identify, formalize, share and promote lessons learned and best practices.
• Act as role model and/or coach
• Animate the “associate program” for solution logistic and the Solution Purchasing Associate training for the logistic.

Transversal projects

• Build and secure the transport dashboard for finance to have a clear view on the transport cost for Global ETO
• New Regulation Project Leader: export control, carbon tax, cargo insurance