Deploying and leading the CI service offering and owning the CI program for the customer, aiming achievement of cost and cash savings in KNIL customer’s supply chain.
Your Role Deploying and leading the CI service offering and owning the CI program for the customer, aiming achievement of cost and cash savings in KNIL customer’s supply chain. Leading business case development, providing status updates on CI program to Business Manager / customer, ensuring achievement of savings targets. Following approach to savings idea generation, validation and implementation based on KNIL experience and tailoring it to the specifics of the customer, as well as enrichment of the approach based on own best practices. Your Responsibilities
Problem Solving
Identification of customer’s supply chain inefficiencies and driving business cases
Monitoring optimization project status, escalations in case of slow / lack of progress, definition of priorities, alignment on focus areas and resources
Addressing resistance to change.
Eliminating barriers on the way to implement savings projects
Savings target setting
Structural supply chain mapping / understanding of customer’s business end-to-end
Value stream mapping
Loss analysis, identification of strategic savings areas (cost / cash)
Business case development
Alignment on savings targets with the customer and Business Manager (value and timelines)
Ensuring sufficiency of resources, priorities in alignment with Business Manager
Savings pipeline development
Data gathering, cleaning, validation
Idea generation sessions, brainstorming internal and external (e.g. workshops with the customer)
Collaboration with CI peers, CI corporate function, KNIL network engineering and procurement, logistics experts, key customer’s stakeholders
Anchoring the baseline in alignment with the customer (key stakeholder incl. customer’s finance)
Savings evaluation and validation (size and timelines that would be required to deliver)
Elaboration of various scenario of savings achievement, recommendation of best scenario to pursue
Identification of portfolio of savings projects for multi-year horizon, splitting them into quick wins / complex for realization, bigger / smaller potential, simulation of feasible realization timelines
Continuous development of a project pre-pipeline
Savings status tracking
Alignment on approach to savings calculation, tracking, reporting with customer / Business Manager
Organizing savings tracker – underlying working files and visualization in Tableau dashboard (e.g. customizing IL CI standard templates, Corp CI Tracker)
Setting up regular internal / external meetings to provide update on savings program status (e.g. QBR/MBR or dedicated CI meetings)
Ensure ideas/pre pipeline will be transformed into projects
Leading action log after savings review meeting, following up on execution of actions
Savings delivery
Management of savings realization (preparation and execution of testing, documenting go live, post go live hyper care and registration of actual achievements)
Leading project calls ensuring the progress of savings realization
Addressing risks, concerns, resistance to changes
Monitoring delivering of portfolio of savings, taking measures in case of lack progress or off-track developments
Responsibility of a gap analysis in case achieved savings vary significantly from expected savings
Escalation of lack of progress to customer / Business manager
GDP / GxP compliance
Ensure adherence of performed activities to established GxP quality system, according to the WHO GDP guidelines (latest version), the EU GDP guidelines (latest version), and Quality agreement (latest version) in place with customer
Supervise adherence to Good Documentation practices, follow-up, storage and archiving of GxP documentation. Focus on the accuracy and quality of the records
Compliance with required customer quality standards, and Pharma & Healthcare relevant local/international legal regulatory requirements
Adhere to, if applicable, KN Product standards such as KN Pharma Chain, KN Battery Chain, KN Engine Chain etc
Your Skills and Experiences
Proven track record in change management and/or project management (min. 5 years)
Proven experience in all transportation modes
Proven experience in supply chain cost budgeting / optimization / value stream mapping
Proven experience in business case creation
Proven experience of cross regional or global collaboration in multinational environment
Preferred candidate to have Forwarding / Logistics background
Good Reasons to Join As an employer, Kuehne+Nagel stands for equal opportunity and we are committed to diversity in our teams with regards to people with disabilities. We believe that you can make a valuable contribution to Kuehne+Nagel and look forward to receiving your application.
