How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
The Stock & Assets Manager is accountable for ensuring the performance of the stock required to the Packaged Gases operations of their entity in a service model, working on two main axes: i) availability at the right time at the right place (cylinders/bundles, empty & full) and ii) the optimisation of the assets usage and costs.To this end, they hierarchically lead a team in charge of the following main processes:
S&OP: proposing an updated demand forecast and required production plan enabling the setup of the right resources (people & assets) at the right time to meet customer demand in the mid- to long- term horizon.
Assets Management: investment requests, cross-border asset transfers, gas service changes.
Stock Management: stock target definition, offer review, mobile assets reallocation.
Retesting Management: from mid- to long-term planning (Retesting Planning) to the weekly level (Production Scheduling).
Their team is in close contact with the primary transport dispatchers for organising and optimising the flows between plants, in close coordination with the secondary logistics and testing planning teams.
The entity Stock & Assets Manager’s scope covers plants, hubs, distributors stock points.
As part of the Air Liquide S&OP Group Program, the Stock and Assets Manager Nordics
Accountabilities:
The Nordics Stock & Assets Manager is accountable for:
- Leading the deployment of the S&OP program in the Nordics.
- ensuring the highest availability of PG mobile assets at the lowest total cost,
- planning and measuring the performance of the physical inventories,
- leading action plans to reduce IDR (Inventory Difference Rate).
Depending on the entity, the physical inventory of distributors can be under the responsibility of the entity Stock & Assets Manager.
Processes:
Project mode: Implement the S&OP process, in the frame of the SOP Group Program
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Sales Loop
- Supply Loop
- pre-Exec
- Executive S&OP
Assets Management
- Mobile assets reallocation - Cross-border:
- Gas service changes:
- New mobile assets investment:
Stock Management
- Stock target definition
- Stock target definition - Distributors
- Stock target definition - Testing centers
- Mobile assets reallocation - Country
- Offer Review
Retesting Management
- Retesting Planning
- Stock management of retesting components
- Warehousing management of retesting components
KPI:
S&OP process maturity level, OFR, % of Target Stock, capex requirements, Days of stock/Rotation rate, Retesting backlog, retesting Lead Time.
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Are you a MATCH?
Education
Master with strong experience / engineering degree
Experience
Supply chain management (5+ years)
Competencies:
Core Competencies
Strong experience in leading change:
- Managing high-level stakeholders
- Mobilizing cross-functional and international teams
- Improving the process to deliver sustainable results
Strong experience in Supply Chain management:
- Operating the S&OP Process
- Managing supply and demand with short- to long-term horizons
- Deploying continuous-improvement approach to back-office processes
Strong analytical skills:
- Turning large sets of data into synthetic and actionable information
- Turning the S&OP data into financials
- Connecting to the ERP and satellites tools to capture relevant data
Soft skills
- Process-oriented and continuous-improvement mindset to achieve sustainable changes and increase the maturity of the organization
- Communication and facilitation skills to mobilize a high variety of stakeholders
- Ability to work in matrix organization: drive by influence, orchestrate multiple parties without direct management, manage conflicts and conflicting objectives
- Ability to balance short- to long-term objectives in a complex environment
English & local language(s)
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.