Supply Chain Leader

Date Posted:

Country:
United Kingdom

Location:
Otis Vantage London, 10th Floor, Great West Road, Brentford, TW8 9AG, UK.

Title:
Supply Chain Leader EMEA

Location:
UK, London or Leicester.

Would you like to join a truly international, talent driven company that values Safety, Ethics, Quality, Innovation and Employee Opportunity?

Otis is growing and is looking for a Supply Chain Leader to cover EMEA OU . This full-time role involves both the lead for supply chain matters within the Operating unit, as well as undertaking non-catalogue local procurement (when not managed by Global / EMEA Sourcing Teams). Works with the part time Supply Chain Country Business Partners in the associated Countries.

Daily Responsibilities:

Provide single point of contact across EMEA all supply chain topics, including but not limited to savings plan and LE, payment term initiatives, and other supply chain initiatives. Working closely with OU and Country leadership to understand the needs of the Customer and ensure this is delivered to expectations.

Typical responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the EMEA supply chain business partners (field & indirect). Manage a team of 5 business partner leads (dedicated) and country-level business partners (dual hatted, dotted line) ensuring prompt sourcing, technical support, and competitive procurement of non-catalog items providing visibility, control and savings.
• Identify and execute processes and KPIs around the following supply chain customer service activities for the OU/OA organizations, including but not limited to stakeholder engagement & support, OU / country feedback into category teams, savings plan & alignment with local finance / leadership, local catalogue implementation support, pay term country analysis & tasks, Works Council support, local supplier performance including delivery, OTD, KPIs, analysis for review meetings, signing contracts locally / loading local agreed contracts on servers, supplier orders, renewals analysis, compare invoice to order, local country contracts & local agreements (with legal support, local language) and supplier relationship meetings (local language)
• Identify and execute processes and KPIs around local supplier spend / non-catalog spend management, including non-GBS low value procurement, complex low value requests, local language negotiations, building local agreements/price lists, identifying new suppliers and quoting. Create non-catalog standard work processes for sourcing analysts and ensure compliance; working to establish cost-saving opportunities, capitalizing on SCM strategic initiatives (i.e. centralization, catalogs, etc.), identifying opportunities to transition additional spend to catalog (with goal of 80% of parts cataloged).
• Provide leadership and oversight on the GBS team in EMEA managing Source to Pay, including monitoring KPIs, supporting escalations.
• Develop and execute an outsource GBS solution for tail spend management across the field and indirect EMEA supply chain.
• Lead the EMEA centralised support request platform \”Service Now\” including development, maintenance, reporting and analysis tasks.
• Support the deployment of purchasing tools locally, including FRS catalogue tool, Market Dojo e tender tool, IDOT supplier onboarding tool, etc. and participate/lead in testing, deployment, change management and training.
• Collaborate with sourcing teams to convert local non-catalog purchases into the standard catalogs.

Whats on offer for you;

• The opportunity to be part of a huge supply chain function with exposure in global improvement strategies and plans to have the very best supply chain solutions for an ever changing business.
• Great, competitive salary.
• The ability to learn directly from subject matter experts, to work with them in designing new digital supply chain solutions for a competitive market.

Key requirements;

Education

MBA/MA/MS degree with 1+ years of experience; BA/BS degree with 5+ years of experience

Experience

• Proven ability to lead and manage a group of colleagues to achieve quality, cost, and service level targets; Set challenging goals with clear expectations, offering feedback and coaching to support the team in achieving them.
• Proven ability to work across teams, communicating clearly to align objectives and taking initiative in serving stakeholders.
• Ability to take ownership of challenges, accurately defining problems and reprioritizing as needed to reach overall objectives.
• Experience with Global JDE & associated Finance systems (K2), Microsoft products: Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Forms
• Ability to work with various cross-functional groups, including Field Operations (Sales, Supervisors, Project Managers), Engineering, and Supplier Quality to ensure business goals are met.
• Must be able to work in and fully support a Team environment.
• Multi-lingual is a plus.

Apply today to join us and build what\’s next

If you live in a city, chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day.

Otis is the world\’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry\’s largest Service portfolio.

You may recognize our products in some of the world\’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company.

When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You\’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you\’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge.

We provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.

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