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Advisor, Supply Chain Solutions (North Asia)

Advisor, Supply Chain Solutions (North Asia)

APL LogisticsHong Kong
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

This position will support the regional engineering and sales development team in the sales process, and engineer opportunities into customized supply chain solutions. Specifically, he or she will analyse the effectiveness of operations, and design optimal logistics solutions to yield cost savings for MNC clients and meet revenue and margins objectives of our organization. Other expectations include the development of supply chain capabilities and replicating them in countries within the region and cross the region. He Or she will also support to manage the North Asia CLS (WMS) P&L.

Key Accountabilities

  • Support engineering and regional business development teams in the sales process to win business for the organization and to meet revenue and margin objectives
  • Analyse the effectiveness of client’s operations, develop optimal and well-conceptualized logistics solutions, and work with regional BD team to develop detailed proposals including solution design, cost models, process flow simulation, and other logistics factors within customer defined timelines
  • Work closely with country management and sales team to develop pricing solutions and perform profit and loss analysis for customer business opportunities
  • Identify, initiate and develop new business strategies to promote North Asia CLS (WMS & TMS) over the medium term aligning with global strategy
  • Responsible for supporting financial success and profit North Asia CLS (WMS) of by managing revenue generation, value stream, cost structure, productivity, risk exposure, etc.
  • Perform a supervisory role to the logistics engineering analysts and crosscheck that the proposals and solutions developed are of acceptable quality
  • Perform mentoring and governing of engineering solutions to country representatives.
  • Renew and maintain engineering capabilities to region / countries without engineering presence . Taiwan, Japan and Korea
  • Work with country operations management to improve process / productivity to increase profitability of identified accounts

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Master of Science in Logistics Management or Industrial Engineering
  • Minimum 5 years of Logistics experience with skills in warehousing, distribution, order management, planning and optimization, and information technology application to logistics
  • Possess preparation experience, costing, contract negotiation on rates, customer presentation experience is advantageous
  • Possess advanced analytical and problem solving abilities, confident in analysing significant amounts of data and turning it into actionable information
  • Literate in information technology, particularly as it relates to logistics, good knowledge of optimization modelling or operations research software, demonstrate good proposal writing skill
  • Experience in using AutoCAD and Visio
  • Ability to work well both independently and in teams, under a multi-location and multi-cultural environment, and able to work in a fast moving and demanding environment
  • Good interpersonal skills to apply in communications with business partners, the field, and corporate personnel
  • Occasional travel to Mainland China and Taiwan
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