Team Lead Supply Chain Planning

Team lead Supply Chain Planning

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Position

As Team Lead Supply Chain Planning, you play a central role in optimising our supply chain. Together with your team, you ensure that inventories at our terminals remain at the agreed level, while continuously steering towards optimising the total value chain margin and the efficient use of our logistics capacity.

You lead an international team of six Supply Chain Planners, four of whom are in the Netherlands and two in Germany. In your role, you combine day-to-day operational decision-making with coaching and developing your team and continuously improving processes. In doing so, you work closely with colleagues within Supply Chain Planning and Execution, Trade, Sales and Process, Data & Technology. You also maintain daily contact with terminals, external inventory partners and logistics service providers.

In this dynamic environment, commercial, logistical and operational interests come together. You keep the overview, set priorities and ensure that your team reaches well-founded decisions quickly. At the same time, you stimulate collaboration across teams and disciplines and work on an increasingly effective and future-proof supply chain.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Steering daily supply chain planning and optimisation based on inventory, demand, production, logistics capacity, terminal restrictions, market developments and margins;

• Leading daily optimisation meetings and ensuring clear priorities and decision-making;

• Optimising logistics movements to achieve inventory targets, improve margins and make optimal use of available transport capacity;

• Determining the optimal transport mode, volumes and supply source for further execution;

• Coordinating and optimising third-party supplies, stocks and loans;

• Deciding on the chartering in or out of additional transport capacity when needed;

• You assess and approve relevant logistics costs, including demurrage;

• Monitoring process and team performance and initiating improvement actions where necessary;

• Together with Process, Data & Technology, you work on the further development of supply chain processes and systems;

• Coaching, developing and motivating employees and encouraging ownership within the team;

• You conduct performance reviews and appraisals and ensure an effective distribution of tasks and resources;

• Organising the team's availability outside regular office hours and participating in the duty schedule.

Your Profile

• A completed education, preferably in a commercial, logistics or supply chain field;

• Relevant experience in supply chain planning, logistics or a comparable optimisation environment;

• Experience in leading, coaching and developing a team;

• Experience with ERP and EPRM systems;

• Experience with or affinity for trading, logistics and sales, preferably within the energy or oil industry;

• Experience working in cross-functional teams and with diverse internal and external stakeholders;

• Strong analytical ability and the ability to quickly translate complex information into concrete decisions;

• Commercial insight and good communication and negotiation skills;

• A stress-resistant and results-oriented attitude, enabling you to remain effective in a dynamic environment;

• Strong team spirit and the ability to stimulate collaboration between different disciplines;

• You have a good command of Dutch and English , both spoken and written (German is a plus).

Our Offer

• A professional and very well-connected work environment with a young and international team in a growing company that is leading the way in the energy transition;

• Contributing to excellent work within the team, where quality and team spirit are central;

• Learning from inspiring and fascinating fields that want to change the way the world uses energy;

• An attractive workplace at the office in Rotterdam with development opportunities within an international, business environment;

• An attractive employment conditions package, such as a (partially) employer-funded pension and bicycle scheme;

• A fun and supportive team environment where you are warmly welcome at various social events.

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