Supply Chain Engineer

Our client is an International Global Freight Forwarder with industry-leading technology, delivering import/export air, ocean and road freight forwarding, supply chain management, logistics and specialised services in retail, manufacturing and chemicals.

With innovative technologies, pushing of boundaries, and most importantly, their employees that sets them apart.
Customer Solutions function acts in a business consultancy capacity providing internal and external customers with their extensive knowledge of supply chain, freight forwarding and a passion for supply chain and industry advancement via technology and digitisation.

We are now recruiting at the Birmingham location for a Supply Chain Engineer to join the team. Focusing on data as a pivotal differentiator to the business. The successful candidate will make a significant contribution in several key areas:

* Liaise with business users, client managers and specialists to understand the requirements / problem statements.
* Conduct data gathering and analysis to support the position to provide customised and innovative supply chain solutions to optimise supply chain performance and costs with a focus on enabling clients to achieve reductions in their operational costs, administrative workloads and inventory; whilst making improvements to their service, revenue and quality by leveraging the portfolio of their products, services and technology offered.
* Strategically identify and utilise data to support internal and external customers and provide data insights to drive decisions.
* Contribute to operational excellence by developing and improving data quality, reporting and analytics and actively support and foster a culture of data integrity.

Main responsibilities

* Hold the ability to perform high level solution design aligned with the requirements and suggest and validate various solution options for the requirements.
* Formulate solutions and build computation models and other solutions for specific business problems.
* Collect, analyse and understand complex datasets to support supply chain analytics. Identify insights and areas of opportunity to optimise supply chain
* Responding to ad hoc reporting and analysis requests.
* Creating pipelines that convert raw data into usable formats

Experience required

* Industrial Engineering experience
* Background and experience in data analytics
* Experience using advanced Excel functionalities, (complex formulas and functions, vba macros, excel models, pivot tables, v-look ups etc)
* Candidate with technical knowledge and experience in working with Business Intelligence Applications (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, ThoughtSpot) will be required to support.
* Strong conceptual understanding in the Supply Chain Planning and Optimization
* Strong analytical, problem solving, troubleshooting skills


Package and Benefits:

* Salary 30,000 to 40,000 dependent upon experience, flexible for the right candidate
* Pension
* 22 days holiday to start
* Rewards and Discounts
* Heath care plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* Social events
* Free Parking
* Plus more