Supply Chain Engineer
Solihull
£28,000-£35,000 DOE
Our client is focusing on data as a pivotal differentiator to the business. The successful candidate will make a significant contribution to several key areas:
1. Conduct data gathering and analysis to support our clients 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.
2. Strategically identify and utilize data to support internal and external customers and provide data insights to drive decisions.
3. 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
• Industrial Engineering experience - Preferred
• 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.
- Demonstratable experience of ’getting things done’ and ’can do’ attitude.
- Team player who can collaborate effectively with colleagues