Supply Chain Director Benelux
We are currently looking for a Supply Chain Manager M/F for our client, a specialist in distribution to professionals - Position based in Brussels.
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will be a real expert and contributor to the transformation of the company's Supply Chain, providing tactful, sympathetic and persevering support for an integrated Supply Chain that meets the growth expectations of an international group (and its internal and external customers).
In cross-functional mode, across the entire Supply Chain perimeter, missions include :
- Logistics: management and supervision of logistics warehouses (reception, storage, preparation, dispatch)
- Transport: design, management and optimization of route plans in conjunction with carriers,
- Procurement: definition of procurement strategy, global inventory policy, link with Forecasting...
- Customer Service: monitoring KPIs and performance indicators such as service rate, quality rate, delivery times, etc.
- Projects: supply chain transformation, warehouse modernization, warehouse mechanization, site layout, ERP/WMS changeover, process optimization, continuous improvement.
- Direct and cross-functional team management.
- Social: coordinating labor relations and ensuring a good social climate
Your strategic and operational expertise will provide the company's senior management with the advice and insight needed for sound decision-making, execution and fine-tuned project management.
You will be involved in all projects and arbitrations (strategic, operational, financial) concerning the development and transformation of the Group's Supply Chain.
In terms of Management/Finance, you will ensure, with the support of the finance and management teams, the economic steering of the Supply Chain.
Profile
We're looking for a true "orchestra conductor" of the Supply Chain in the distribution sector:
- You have a higher education (engineering or commercial) with 5 years of higher education.
- A highly-confirmed expert, your operational experience in logistics platform management will give you the necessary legitimacy for the position.
- Proven experience in managing complex projects is essential.
- Rigor in managing figures: not only do you need to master data, but you also need to be able to present financial analyses, case studies, business plans, etc. to the highest levels of the company.
PERSONAL QUALITIES / SOFT SKILLS ARE ESSENTIAL
- We are looking for a person who will be able to accompany the change, with strong communication skills with internal and external contacts: quality of listening but also of conviction (role of influencer) to advise them, convince them, with the constant objective of making them adhere and participate in the transformation projects.
- Positive and humble by nature, you are able to make proposals, demonstrate rigor, leadership and adaptability, and have a sense of priorities, a sense of teamwork and synthesis, and a constant concern for the objective to be achieved.
- Fluency in English is required for this position.
Position based in Brussels - The installation of a family in Belgium will be supported by our customer.