Strategic Supply Chain Specialist (Monterrey)

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Your Role & Responsibilities

• Operate as MAHLE supply chain expert for freight and transportation, warehousing, and returnable packaging processes.
• Primary contact for definition of specifications of the external supply chain.
• Define process, methods, and volume plan to tender external freight providers together with non-production materials (NPM) purchasing.
• Collaborate with purchasing to find best possible service providers for transportation, empties management, and warehousing.
• Support implementation of new freight forwarding companies.
• Develop MAHLE's digital supply chain processes in alignment with external and internal infrastructure and partners.
• Define standard processes and tools to support operational logistics and plants.
• Lead logistic cost and performance improvement projects and initiatives.
• Develop ideas and concepts to improve transport and returnable empties processes.
• Collaborate with plants and development areas to define best practice processes.
• Collaborate with MAHLE operational logistics to implement new processes and identify areas of improvement.
• Explore and analyze data to identify areas of improvement and show improvement.
• Act as third level escalation for logistics issue to support process problem solving.
• Support cost improvement CIP and PPI workshops to realize short term savings.
• Support management initiatives with logistics, freight, and returnable knowledge.
• All other duties and projects as assigned.

Your Skills & Strengths

• Bachelor’s degree in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university preferred, or equivalent related experience.
• Ability to identify and solve problems, to work within deadlines with a high attention to detail, and to work independently in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to influence and develop strong working relationships with colleagues, senior level management and/or executives, vendors, suppliers, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation delivery.
• Must have broad understanding of purchasing principles.
• Advanced computer skills, especially in MS Office.
• Advanced experience with SAP transportation management (TM) and logistic business network (LBM) modules preferred.
• Advanced level experience with expedited freight tool preferred.
• Fluent in English.

Facts about the job

• Benefits
• Entry level: Experienced hires
• Functional area: Logistics
• Location: Monterrey, MX
• Company: MAHLE