Responsibilities:
- Leading and managing specific strategic projects and initiatives within the Supply Chain & Sustainability function, ensuring they align with PANDORA’s strategic objectives.
- Cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and transparency among your project stakeholders, facilitating effective teamwork and communication.
- Managing dependencies and providing clear visibility into strategic priorities and initiatives across functions, both locally and globally.
- Providing inputs to portfolio prioritization discussions and tracking progress within the Supply Chain & Sustainability teams.
- Organize and support successful execution of quarterly Supply Chain & Sustainability townhalls and other management support activities in coordination with the leadership team
- Successfully plan, manage and execute functional, and cross-functional projects, process optimization initiatives, and management support activities.
- Facilitate recommendations and support in decision-making to drive projects forward across areas such as Planning, Procurement, Contract Manufacturing, Logistics and Warehousing.
- Encourage the adoption of best practices and drive continuous improvement within the Supply Chain & Sustainability functions to meet strategic objectives.
KEY DUTIES:
Execute Set Strategic Direction:
- Provide inputs to develop and monitor the strategic initiative portfolio for Supply Chain & Sustainability
- Seek inputs from relevant stakeholders to manage dependencies to other initiatives.
- Identify and share knowledge on opportunities to improve procedures, guidelines, and best practices across Supply Chain & Sustainability, ensuring timely updates and relevance.
Operate and Execute:
- Be the project manager on strategic and cross-functional projects within Supply Chain & Sustainability, focusing on data-driven process optimization and cost management to achieve desired results.
- Translate strategic directions into actionable plans and milestones for your projects ensuring smooth deliver according to budget, timeline & scope.
- Apply a data-driven approach by effectively collecting, manipulating, analyzing and drawing conclusions from large, sometimes unstructured data
- Staying updated on new trends and practices within the industry.
Drive Continuous Improvements:
- Secure resources to needed to progress initiatives and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the project team.
- Gain a deep understanding of processes, policies, and constraints across Supply Chain & Sustainability to make effective operational decisions.
- Monitor own performance, identifying areas for improvement
Professional qualifications and personal competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business Administration, Management Engineering or similar
- Minimum 2 years of experience in consulting, project management, supply chain, strategy, and/or finance
- Strong knowledge of end to end Supply Chain processes or specialized in a specific field such as Procurement, Planning, Warehousing, Logistics
- Managerial experience is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong presentations skills
- Demonstrate ability to facilitate discussions and meetings to make hard decisions and making the right trade-offs
- Ability to think holistically without losing eye on the details, and ability to prioritize, plan, execute, and follow through
- Is self-motivated and hungry enough to work hard and willing to change
- Has an ability to lead, manage, motivate, and direct diverse team of project stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; interact effectively with all levels of management within the organization
