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UNICA Sourcing Specialist is responsible from planning the sourcing of FGs as per the planning cycles, keeping inventory as per the inventory targets and achieving dispatch reliabilities and service for the FG. He/She needs to Identify and deliver projects identified on time in full. He/She needs to understand the tasks and the type of automation needed to optimize the entire process to save time and manpower.
Job Responsibility:
Coordination of sourcing projects within the team and UL
Order-Production alignment
Transfer Pricing follow up
OTIF sourcing of all existing products/SKUs for meeting the demand in the region
Change management inc. renovations/innovations, localizations and sourcing unit changes.
Stock management of all UNICA stocks, in transits, stocks at sourcing units
Manage the supply planning process, focusing on short term supply planning and inventory management of finished goods.
Generate Short/Medium term FG supply plans and shipment plans.
Identify and decide on short term supply issues within the guidelines
Highlight short/medium term exceptional cases
Work closely with Sourcing Units’ planning teams (local and imported packs) to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements
Work closely with the logistics teams to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.
Work closely with distribution to understand outbound network constraints and liaise with the appropriate planning teams (site and third party) to overcome short/medium term constraints
Identify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal cost
Work closely with relevant Turkey & UNICA Demand Planning Managers to drive complexity reduction in terms of SKUs
Deliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.
Manage the stock holding policy in order to meet customer service & inventory targets.
Determine inbound logistics requirements
Responsible for primary and secondary DRP and execute primary DRP from SU to primary DC’s
SLOB & BW management
Support project teams and ensure appropriate early management rigour in delivering innovation through the wider supply chain. This includes early management of write offs.
Requirements:
2+ years of experience in supply chain / project management within supply chain / planning is required.
Bachelor Degree
Fluent in English, and Turkish
both written and verbal
Proficiency in MS Office programs
Knowledge of SAP
Good written and verbal communication skills in Turkish & English is mandatory.
Team player
Team working, interpersonal and communication skills
Commercial acumen
Effective remote working skills, as majority of the work is with various countries/SUs around the world
Project and network management experience
Pro-active approach to problem solving in short term and ability to implement long term preventive activities
Analytic thinking, proactiveness, risk management, problem solving, high resilience
Ability to set priorities and to work effectively under pressure of time and results
SAP and Microsoft Office programs, with advanced Excel skills