Senior Global Logistics Lead

Senior Global Logistics Lead

Working for a complex, global manufacturer of hardware and software products, this is a fantastic role for someone who enjoys driving performance, automation, efficiency and cost savings within a challenging, fast paced environment.

For someone who is driven by data, comfortable leading change, enjoys a fast-paced global environment, with excellent commercial acumen this is an opportunity you need to investigate. It offers a fantastic working environment, brilliant people centric culture and incredibly rewarding work.

It’s ideal for someone who has:

• Strong business acumen, leadership, and drive. With the ability to identify and successfully drive logistics solutions internally across multiple teams, and externally with logistics partners.
• Enjoy working on their own initiative, with the ability to identify, recommend and expedite solutions.
• Strong analytic & analysis skills, with the ability to prove (data lead) where efficiencies can be gained.
• Monitor and engage with external logistics partners, to monitor and improve current service but also identify cost savings going forward.
• Working closely with Procurement teams to provide leadership & specialist logistics knowledge as part of Global RFI, RFP, RFQ process. Delivering against milestones and improving process outcomes.
• Working with global Supplier Managers and external logistics partners to secure favourable end results. Showing leadership, commercial acumen and the ability to make strong data lead recommendations.
• Utilize & embrace automation for tasks which are repetitive, ideally with knowledge of creating PowerBI dashboards.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify and relay complex information succinctly both internally and externally.
• Enjoy multitasking, with the ability to prioritize your own workload. You will have multiple data requests from different divisions within the company, and you need to balance the day-to-day tasks with varying requests/projects.

You will need to have/be:

• Highly driven, self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and as part of a blended global team (working with Sales, Finance, Purchasing, Shipping, Relationship Managers etc.).
• Excellent communication/presentation skills.
• Strong communication, people/influencing skills.
• Strong data analysis and attention to detail skills.
• Strong, adaptable Project Management capability, with the ability to react to changing priorities.
• Must be detail oriented and hard working.
• Expert level Excel skills, ideally with ability to create PowerBi dashboards.

You must have:

• Strong international logistics experience, ideally with 3+ years’ experience gained in similar role within a fast pace, complex global environment.
• Ideally Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of relevant work experience