Excelher - Supply Chain Developer

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. 

About ExcelHer program:  

Are you looking for an opportunity to restart your career? 
Do you want to work with an organization that would value your experience no matter when you gained them? 
How about working with the best minds in the transportation industry where we need more women power? 
 
We are pleased to launch the ExcelHer program – the career returnship program at Volvo Group in India. The program is for women who have been on a career break for a year or more. This is our step towards empowering women to relaunch their professional journey after their absence from the workplace due to personal commitments. Exciting work assignments have been identified which you can refer in the list below. 
 
The assignments are for a tenure of 9 months. The participant of this program would have access to professional development programs, mentoring assistance by a business leader, apart from the experience of working with people from different functions/technologies/culture. 
 
Go ahead and apply if you find the opportunities in line with your experience and career interest. 

 
Location : Hoskote

THIS IS US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES

Production Logistics is part of Group Trucks Operations. We are an organization of approximately 650 employees, globally connected to deliver logistics solutions with world class operational excellence. We ensure that transportation is purchased, packaging is made available at our suppliers, material is transported to our production facilities, and vehicles are distributed to our customers on time. We design and optimize the Production Logistics supply chain for the Volvo Group, prepare logistics for new products and drive the Sales & Operations Planning process. We strive for an innovative and diverse workplace, based upon Volvo Group values with high focus on customer success

Our organization is the perfect platform for people who want to make a difference in Supply Chain. You need to be passionate about making things better for our Supply Chain, organization, and our society.

YOUR NEW ROLE

In this position, you will be a member of the Transport Design and Optimization (TD&O), which includes transport network optimization (TNO), TMS key users and supplier management functions with the responsibility for design, implement, optimize, and secure quality of the transport network for transport material, transport product and manage packaging.

Your most important assignment in this role is to design & optimize transport network, explore new supply chain trends, prepare master data, and implementation. Support in sourcing projects, cost improvements, landed cost calculations, digitalization and sustainability are also main deliverables from this role with the aim to optimize the Volvo transport network in terms of cost, lead time and sustainability

You will work in a global supply chain context that provides an interesting diversity both in people and responsibility areas. You will work together with colleagues within TO INTER but to a great extent also with colleagues in other parts of Production Logistics, in other regions and in development functions. Your main interface will be towards Transport Operations, Volvo IT, Logistics purchasing and Volvo plant logistics organizations.

Purpose:

• • To drive assignments in end-to-end optimization. ​
  • To evaluate, challenge and develop existing methods and standards in the end-to-end supply chain optimization work.​
  • To coordinate, support and follow up on preparation and implementation of logistics sourcing projects.​
  • To support development projects in the area of logistics.​
  • To coordinate and drive optimization forum, focusing on external logistics in collaboration with plant logistics.​

Responsibilities​

• Optimization:
  • Manage and lead Optimization forum with Plants
  • Identify optimization opportunities in the external transport network taking the end-to-end supply chain into account (holistic view).​
  • Challenge existing methods internally as well as externally to be able to lower the logistics cost, Leadtime and/decrease the Co2 impact from transports
  • Implement new or changed transport setup from single cases to bigger scopes.

• Develop new as well as existing methods and standards how to optimize the transport network:
  • Explore new supply chain trends and implement
  • Evaluate and challenge the current methods and standards how to optimize the transport network.​
  • Develop new standards how to optimize the transport network​
  • Work agile, meaning; interact with colleagues to find continuous improvements on the of way of working and listen to the users and stakeholders. ​
  • Collaborate with system experts to create knowledge and find methods that are feasible also in the digital landscape.​

• Coordinate sourcing project preparation and implementation with the transport design responsible:
  • Secure handover to Logistics purchasing of transport relations for all contracts part of the sourcing project.​
  • System compliance check and maintenance process for new relations to be agreed.​
  • Define risk and mitigation plan​
  • Secure needed IT test before go-live.​
  • Follow up on implementation activities needed to implement changes in logistics systems.​
  • Plan and drive pulse meetings after go-live.​

• Drive assignments/smaller projects in the area of end-to-end optimization.​
• Support development projects with your end-to-end logistics knowledge.​
• Digitalise the activities to gain efficiencies

WHO ARE YOU?

We are looking for you who can bring in new perspectives, to the continued development of the Volvo transport network. You are an experienced, energized, person who sees the benefit of building strong relationships and cross functional collaboration. You are a person that very much enjoys working with a broad spectrum of stakeholders and you love the challenges our high pace and our operational environment brings. You are ambitious and innovative, you will have Analytical, Digitalization and Sustainability skills. You know about analytical tools i.e Power BI, Power Apps, Qlik sense, Advanced Excel etc.

 
We believe that it is an advantage if you have experience from production or logistics and supply chain environment.

Competence​

• Driver/Project leader​​
• Advanced end-to-end Logistics​ knowledge
• Structured mindset and analytical skills
• Team player with good interpersonal, presentation and networking skills to build strong internal and external relationships with stakeholders
• Problem solving and self-going attitude
• Active contributor to the lean methodology
• Motivated and determined to reach agreed objectives, (K)PI’s
• Customer focused attitude  
• Holistic understanding
• Ability to independently generate ideas and demonstrate creativity
• Data analytics and Citizen development i.e Power BI, Advance Excel, SQL, Phython

 
ARE WE A PERFECT MATCH?

We can’t promise you an effortless job, but we can promise you some skilled colleagues and some truly exciting challenges to work with. As you will be part of an organization of skilled people your passion for new technology, innovation and new solutions shines through. We believe it is only together we can create great business, and it is only together we will make this world a better place. If you have great capability to involve, motivated and engage others then we are certain that you would be a great asset to our team.

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail. 

Who we are and what we believe in 
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. ​We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. ​We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment. 

Group Trucks Operations encompasses all production of the Group’s manufacturing of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks, as well as engines and transmissions. We also orchestrate the spare parts distribution for Volvo Group’s customers globally and design, operate and optimize logistics and supply chains for all brands. We count 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, where continuous improvement is the foundation. As our planet is facing great challenges, we - one of the largest industrial organizations in the world - stand at the forefront of innovation. We are ready to rise to the challenge. Would you like to join us?