Supply Chain Engineer - ACS Performance : Job Details

We are seeking a Supply Chain Engineer to join our Customer Solutions function. If you enjoy thinking critically, finding creative resolutions and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment then we want to hear from you!

Purpose

Customers are our bloodline, and we act as a trusted advisor. Conduct must be customer centric, value driven and cross functional to delivery high impact customer engagement through thought leadership and in-depth understanding of logistics industry.

We are focusing on data as a pivotal differentiator to the business. The successful candidate will make a significant contribution to several key areas:

• Conduct data gathering and analysis to support our position to provide customized and innovative supply chain solutions to optimize supply chain performance and costs with a focus on enabling clients to achieve reductions in their operational costs, administrative workloads and inventory; whilst making improvements to their service, revenue and quality by leveraging the portfolio of products, services and technology offered.
• Strategically identify and utilize data to support internal and external customers and provide data insights to drive decisions.
• Contribute to operational excellence by developing and improving data quality, reporting and analytics and actively support and foster a culture of data integrity.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business users, client managers and specialists to understand the requirements / problem statements.
• Ability to perform high level solution design aligned with the requirements and suggest and validate various solution options for the requirements.
• Formulate solutions and build computation models and other solutions for specific business problems.
• Collect, analyse and understand complex datasets to support supply chain analytics. Identify insights and areas of opportunity to optimise supply chain
• Responding to ad hoc reporting and analysis requests.
• Creating pipelines that convert raw data into usable formats
• Assist in troubleshooting inconsistencies and validating result sets

Other Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Scope reports and dashboards for different users in the business (internal and external).
• Design, build and enhance reports & dashboards for internal and external stakeholders. Use data analytical skills to create effective, accurate and concise reporting and analytical models that communicate information with meaning and insights from the dataset.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of all data used in reporting solutions.
• Develop and maintain internal & external reporting and analytics.
• Optimise reporting performance and recommend/enact improvements.

Job Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills

• Experience using advanced Excel functionalities, (complex formulas and functions, vba macros, excel models, pivot tables, v-look ups etc)
• Candidate with technical knowledge and experience in working with Business Intelligence Applications (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, ThoughtSpot) will be required to support.
• Strong conceptual understanding in the Supply Chain Planning and Optimization
• Strong analytical, problem solving, troubleshooting skills

Desirable Knowledge, Skills

• Proficiency in query language SQL
• Data visualisation tools, ideally Power BI, Tableau, Looker

Education/Qualification:

• Candidates will also be considered equally on experience and qualification.
• Undergraduate Degree in Economic, Supply Chain Management or Engineering (preferred)

Profile:

• Ability to thrive in a fast-changing, dynamic environment.
• Exhibit a commitment to customer service while building customer partnerships.
• Willingness to learn and develop.
• Have a professional, flexible, and personable approach to user.
• Be comfortable communicating at all levels including board level.
• Have good communications skills, written, telephone and personal.
• Ability to think critically and objectively.
• Attention to detail is imperative!
• Ability to take a logical approach to fault finding and problem resolution.
• Demonstrable experience of 'getting things done' and 'can do' attitude.
• Team player who can collaborate effectively with colleagues.

ACS are recruiting for a Supply Chain Engineer. If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Supply Chain Engineer, please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Supply Chain Engineer. It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as a Supply Chain Engineer with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Supply Chain Engineer role you desire.