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Supply Chain and Logistics Manager

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WHO WE ARE

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Responsible for the logistic management of the local assortment and the global assortment within Business Unit reach, coordinating with related department the orders to be made, the stock levels and following up the logistic SOP.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations

  • Ensures implementation and sustainability of the logistics strategy within the Business unit, defined at Group level
  • Interfaces with related department for all replenishment related activities, especially the placing of new orders and their follow up and the control of stocks at each operation, ensuring that inventory in the BU is in-line with the objective agreed
  • Identifies the necessities of product ordering, validates them internally and issues orders to local suppliers or to related department for the Business Unit
  • Closely prepares and follows-up on promotions with Marketing, Category Managers and related division

Customer Service

  • Implements processes to ensure effective forecasting and ordering for an optimal supply • Manages daily logistics activities, including Purchase Ordering System, Forecast Management system, obsolescence, etc.
  • Manages suppliers’ performance, sharing critical information and proposing corrective actions seeking for Supply Chain optimization
  • Analyzes slow and non movers, overstock and out-of-stock, and develop action plan accordingly

People

  • Ensures proper upstream/downstream communication
  • Ensure the understanding and adherence to standard policies and procedures of the Supply Chain Community

Finance

  • Works closely with DCOO to develop annual capital expenditure and meet budget requirements
  • Monitors, analyzes and reports BU Supply & Demand KPI’s in accordance with Dufry guidelines

Customer

  • Analyzes customers complaints related to the supply chain and determine solutions to address critical issues

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business or Logistics, 3-5 years of experience in Logistics
  • Fluent in English is a must , written and spoken
  • Experience in Global Supply chain , international logistic and Project management and with ERP and replenishment system
  • Minimum 3 years experiences in a management role
  • Microsoft Office proficient particularly with Microsoft Excel (Pivot table,Vlookup ,etc)

Desirable

  • Experience with Navision, SAP, Planning tools and warehouse management systems
  • Knowledge of the retail or consumer goods industry, experience in forecast planning

Specific Requirements

  • Analytical, organizational and negotiation skills
  • Excellent communicator with very high social skills , used to deal with people of different cultures