Senior Supply Chain & Logistics Consultant

Haskoning; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; USD 50.000 - 90.000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company that combines engineering and supply chain consultancy. This role provides a unique opportunity to lead a team in solving logistics challenges across APAC. Utilize your extensive experience to drive innovative solutions with top-tier clients while working in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits for personal and professional development

International market opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in Supply Chain & Logistics.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, and project management.
• Ability to manage client expectations and deliver projects on time.

Responsibilities

• Lead and establish the APAC logistics and supply chain team.
• Deliver data-driven solutions for clients' supply chain challenges.
• Manage projects and client relationships to ensure satisfaction.

Skills

Operational process improvement

Data-driven approach

Project management

Business development

Communication skills

Team management

Education

Advanced degree in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

AIMMS

WITNESS Horizon

SQL

Python

R

Job description

A great opportunity to join and shape an entrepreneurial team focused on providing data-driven supply chain advisory and solutions our clients across the APAC region. Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) is a highly respected 140+ year old engineering consultancy company that designs & builds industrial assets such factories and logistics centers for many leading organizations. In 2022, we’ve joined forces with Districon, a leading supply chain and logistics consultancy with 45 years’ experience developing strategies and solving and issues for integrated logistics and supply chain management.

Our joint team forms the Supply Chain & Logistics Centre of Excellence within RHDHV. We provide top-tier logistics & supply chain advisory as well as digital supply chain advanced analytics services on top of RHDHV’s traditional engineering and consultancy domain knowledge. You will have the opportunity to help define how the engineering industry integrates with strategic supply chain and uses advanced analytics to optimize designs and solve the operational challenges of our clients.

What will you do

This role is a unique opportunity to take a leadership role to further grow and establish our APAC team. In our projects you will address a wide variety of supply chain and logistics challenges of our clients across the Asia Pacific region. You will be working with an impressive range of blue chip clients to understand and capture their requirements and then deliver projects with your data-driven approach, industry expertise and our digital tools.

You will use your skills, along with your APAC and International colleagues, for projects such as:

• Propose an optimal logistics footprint, process re-design and material flows for an existing multi-national agri-business operation.
• Preparing and aligning the business case for automation for a leading F&B company.
• Using simulation modelling to de-risk and optimize the design and operations for a consumer goods factory and warehouse.
• Modelling the future Supply Chain Network for an international wholesale company.
• Working with our Engineering colleagues to design the warehouse and logistics concepts for a new manufacturing site.

Where you will work

Jakarta office, at South Jakarta

What you bring

The Candidate Profile:

• An advanced degree in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Transportation, etc.), Supply Chain/Logistics, Operations Research, Business Administration, or equivalent relevant fields.
• Minimum 10+ years relevant experience in the Supply Chain & Logistics field.
• Candidate brings industry experience (functional supply chain roles) and strong foundational operational knowledge. Applying business and operational process improvement concepts (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping) to real-world supply chain problems.
• Demonstrated supply chain & operations consulting experience. Starting with client problem-statements and translating into winning project approaches and proposals. From there, delivering work that exceeds client expectations on-time and in-budget.
• Strong project management experience and fundamentals. You will be overall responsible for client satisfaction and financial performance of multiple projects the team is delivering. Manage customer stakeholders across all levels of their organization.
• Demonstrated business development and communication skills to contribute to winning projects and ensuring a steady workload. You will play an important role supporting business development by meeting clients, attending conferences, and using your knowledge and professional network to generate opportunities.
• Team management and leadership. You will co-lead our APAC team and build a strong team performance culture while looking after team recruitment, retention and administrative matters in partnership with our Netherlands ‘home-base’.
• P&L management. Although P&L management is the prime responsibility of the SC&L directors, you are aware of the P&L, and the P&L impact of the decisions you take.
• Relationship management with core stakeholders within SC&L group, software and consulting partners, local government, …
• Willingness to travel, both for incidental trips to our offices in Southeast Asia and Amersfoort (Netherlands), or to Southeast Asian clients.

Nice-to-have experience and skills:

• Familiarity and an interest in supply chain optimization, simulation, and mathematical modelling techniques and software to support our technical experts in project delivery.
  • Our team works primarily with the optimization platform AIMMS, simulation software WITNESS Horizon, and SQL, Python, and R.
• Experience in Warehouse or DC layout and material flow (re)design including material handling and storage automation solution concept designs.

Your personal characteristics include:

• Entrepreneurial;you treat the business as your own and are willing to take calculated risks.
• Curious;you go to the heart of the issue and always seek best results.
• Empathetic;you empathize with the customer and think along from his or her position.
• Solution-oriented;you convert customer demands into analysis, solution design and your project approach.

What we offer you

We offer you the opportunity to make a difference in a large international company. We are an attractive employer with a good international market position that offers lots of opportunities for personal and professional development. We offer an inspiring working environment in a professional and internationally successful company. Characteristics of our company are the freedom and responsibility to develop your own initiatives. We offer a competitive salary with a range of benefits.

Are you our new colleague?

If this role sounds like the right challenge, we are interested in hearing from you! We will share more about us and the benefits of coming to work together in our small but growing team and the wider RHDHV & Districon cultures and work benefits during our interview process.

Please apply with your CV and feel free to connect directly with our team directly on LinkedIn for any questions.