Manager, Transportation Control EU

vor 1 Monat

Herzogenaurach, Deutschland adidas Vollzeit

TA Contact Person: Mini Bawa Sharma

 

Purpose

The Manager, Transportation Control is a key in-house decision-making support role for an organized, passionate, and analytical data leader who understands the challenges and the opportunities of EU wide supply chain and transportation network, and who is capable of end-to-end owning, gathering, collecting, and analysing a complex set of business data; and convert and present them into management relevant decks and decision support materials. The successful candidate will be expected to turn data into information, information into insight, and insights to into business decisions. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the Transportation Data landscape and the main POC for all internal and external partners in terms of data and related quantitative analysis
  • Develop, manage, and update regional transportation decks and scorecards
  • Drive data-driven decision making in whole EU network deliveries 
  • Analyse and pinpoint top improvement areas within Supply Chain
  • Own the operational and financial performance reporting of the department, including the relevant Master Data maintenance 
  • Carry out ad hoc analysis to drive agile decision making
  • Support ongoing and designed projects with data, by building and justifying business cases
  • Build automized reports (Excel, Data warehouse, or web based) for team use
  • Drive and own data reliability and richness on company-wide used data tools
  • Work with the technical teams to enhance the transportation reporting capabilities 
  • Improve the understanding, awareness and proper use of available data within the organization 
  • Own transportation KPIs reporting (OTIF, Speed, Sustainability, lead times, cost and choices)
  • Be customer centric in everything we do, recommending and developing new key metrics to help enhance the customer delivery experience
     

Key Relationships: 

  • Initiate and drive data driven discussions with cross-functional internal stakeholders, as well as external partners
  • Couple the data with qualitative input, issues, feedback, and insights to prepare, plan, align and deliver solutions 
  • Identify, analyze and interpret trends, patterns and outliers in complex data sets
  • Deliver timely analysis of the aligned tactical / strategic initiatives
  • Work with senior management to prioritize business and information needs
  • Proactively manage stakeholders, identify needs and manage communication
  • Stakeholders can relate (but not limited) to the following core functions:
  • EU Transportation team as closest internal customers of the analysis required
  • EMEA Supply Chain Management (all functions) 
  • Particularly Performance Management and Supply Chain Control Tower Teams
  • EMEA Market (all functions)  
  • External partners (carriers, solution providers and consultants)
  • Global Operations (Global Transportation, Procurement. Digital, Strategy and IT)
  • Corporate functions (e.g., legal, finance & performance management)

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

 

Soft skills:

  • Thinks Big and has bias for action. Expected to be creative, to plan, shine and deliver.
  • End-to-end mindset with a holistic view of problems and opportunities on hand
  • Business acumen, to be able to grasp and help drive relevant decision making 
  • Has backbone, develops and constructively communicates his opinion, not scared to disagree, and yet commit. 
  • Seeks the best for the business always in mind
  • Transparently presents the story the data indicates, do not manipulate the data to prove the story
  • Solution builder with a creative mind and solid experience in delivering result-oriented analysis
  • Highly self-motivated, and acts like an ‘owner’
  • Earns trust, both of his/her team and internal/external stakeholders. Does what he/she says in due time, and dares to say ‘No’ when required so.
  • Engaging, open and perceptive to feedback and improvement
  • Autonomous and capable of handling all-way communication (upward, lateral and downward)
  • Solid presentation, deck building and storytelling skills
  • Discipline in planning, time management and organization skills 
  • Can learn the technical grounds and talk to non-technical people in a common language 


Hard skills:

  • Advanced MS Office skills, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
  • Technical expertise regarding data models, data mining, segmentation and presentation techniques
  • Strong knowledge and expertise with reporting packages (Business Objects for instance), databases (SQL) and VBA. 
  • Number savvy with strong analytical skills
  • Adept at queries, MS Excel based analysis, report writing and presenting the findings
  • Having worked in an e-com environment is considered an advantage
  • Understanding of a complex transportation / supply chain network
  • Working experience with a Transportation Management and Optimization system is a plus
  • Can locate and define new process improvement processes 
  • Dives deep with proven data analytics skills, and willing to ‘get his/her hands dirty’
  • Frugal. Does not compensate speed or quality over each other. 
  • Has experience in building and evaluating Business Cases with scenario planning
  • Financial literacy is a plus


People management skills:

  • Fosters a team culture that encourages trust, open and constructive discussion 
  • Insists on the Highest Standards. Setting high expectations on him/herself and the partnering teams
  • Good at prioritization, effort estimation, assignment and hand over
  • Curious, open to learn & develop. Leverages, and shares his/her expertise

 

Requisite Education and Qualifications:  

  • A Bachelor’s degree from relevant departments of universities required. A Master’s degree and PMP / lean sigma certification preferred.
  • Demonstrated data analytics skills with various tools 
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in an advanced analytics environment – preferably with a supply chain and/or transportation management background (relevant consultancy included) 
     

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