Supply Chain Analyst

Job description / Role

Purchasing
- Responsible for providing quotes, lead times, price, and minimum buy information.
- Make inquiries and evaluate suppliers on the basis of price, quality, and selection; service, support, and availability, and other factors relevant to the organization.
- Carry out the preparation of purchase orders, review requisitions for goods and services, and solicit bid proposals as needed.
- Accurately report all project milestones to top management.
- Analyze different commodity markets to understand market trends and ensure that the organization is using the right supplier.
Transportation
- Communicate analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing.
- Design new metrics and enhance existing metrics to support the future state of business processes and ensure sustainability and scalability.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying ways to streamline processes and reduce waste sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
- Experience in Lean and Six Sigma, MS Access, SQL, and Python programming language.
- Experience in manufacturing, transportation, customer service, and/or distribution environments.
- Data management and data quality control experience with knowledge pulling and analyzing large data sets.
Inventory
- Develop category and SKU level inventory forecast and plans that meets the company’s objectives.
- Analyze historical data and current demand trends to identify opportunities and risks.
- Manage and optimize inventory levels to meet service level goals while reducing excess inventory maintaining appropriate target stock levels.
- Proactively identify and propose actions to move excess inventory efficiently to achieve the highest margin and cost recovery. (Aged and WIP)
- Support inventory and planning managers with the day-to-day planning priorities and projects.
- Knowledge in MS Office required with advanced knowledge in Excel (vlookup, pivot tables, macros, etc.)

Requirements

Qualifications
- College Degree from an accredited university, or equivalent experience.
- At least three year experience in inventory management and demand planning preferred.
- Strong quantitative analytical skills with a technical understanding of math and inventory management concepts.
- The ability to summarize data logically and communicate information and recommendations clearly too all appropriate contacts.

About the Company

Jindal Films is an expert in the development and manufacture of specialty films for flexible packaging and labeling markets.

Our products help solve your packaging and labeling problems, improve your total costs and support dazzling package designs that help you sell more.

Within Flexible Packaging, Jindal Films provides films that lead the market in terms of barrier to moisture, oxygen, and flavor & aroma. These barriers protect package contents and extend the shelf-life of consumer products so our customers can expand their product distribution channels, reduce stales and keep products tasting 'first day fresh'. Our barrier technology is available in our range of Bicor, Metallyte and Oppalyte films.