Description
Join our global team for a career filled with opportunities to solve challenges both small and large, local and global, simple and complex.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is part of the Wilhelmsen group, a global maritime industry group founded in 1861. With offices in 125 countries, supporting our non-stop operations in 2 200 port locations across the globe, Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has the largest maritime services network in the world. WSS supply a wide portfolio of maritime products and services worldwide to the merchant vessel fleet.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is looking for a new Supply Chain Analyst to have the overall responsibility to proactively analyze the movement of goods through the WSS Marine Product (MP) supply chain, assess distribution centers’ efficiency, inventory turnover, supply chain structure including freight costs, and based on this develop and maintain sophisticated optimization models as input to the WSS MP’s supply chain design. The role is also expected to develop and maintain measurements for Marine Product’s global procurement function, to enable efficient procurement and monitoring of procurement spend. The position reports to Business Control Manager.
Main responsibilities
Analysis of flow of goods, inventory, service levels, freight lanes/freight costs.
Build/maintain optimization models capable of simulating effects of possible changes to network design.
Analysis of procurement data, establishment/maintenance of procurement KPIs
Gather and interpret relevant data (costs, productivity, demand patterns, etc.). Investigate problems, find root causes, and develop solutions.
Key resource on Supply Chain key performance indicators and metrics to evaluate supply chain and performance (includes ad-hoc and periodical reporting) including Inventory Management.
Be an expert of systems and tools applied in our Supply Chain.
Control and maintain Supply Chain basic data in systems and tools.
Analyse and ensure clean-up of the monthly intercompany transactions outstanding
Participate in projects to provide supply chain related input to new business areas/concepts.
Qualifications
MSc degree in engineering or economics
0-2 years of experience
Optimization experience beneficial
Strong quantitative and analytical skills
Familiar with logistics and production planning concepts and techniques (i.e. materials requirement planning)
Knowledge of sophisticated analytical tools and/or programming language used for optimization/simulation on large amounts of data.
Self-motivated/self-driven
Practical business sense and problem-solving skills
Good interpersonal, influencing and networking skills
Ability to communicate findings, make recommendations, and facilitate change
Comfortable working with individuals at all organizational levels
Fluent in written and spoken English
Work location will be Lysaker
Application date is 08.11.2020
For more info, please contact Business Control Manager Marius Olving: +47 97706879Apply!