Supply Chain Analyst

Job description

A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there's more to being in business than just making a profit. That's the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet. What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it's never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It's about how you can grab everything that's within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It's about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we'll all be a little better off. It's that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

Purpose of Role:

The Supply Chain Analyst role is a strategic role that manages both inbound and outbound freight spend, capacity and carrier performance. This will be accomplished through effectively managing our carrier network and working with internal and external partners regarding capacity management. This role will serve as the key liaison between our carriers and our distribution/commercial as well as customer supply chain organization.

Principal Accountabilities:

·  Transport Capacity Analytics:
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·  RFP for over $200MM freight spend.
·  Period capacity calibration across all sites both inbound and outbound finished goods as well as raws and packs to ensure no lags in transport capacity.
·  Cross functional partner with supply planning and commercial on transportation needs and changes within the business.
·  Carrier Performance Management:
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·  OTIF – managing the on time delivery of both inbound (raws and packs) and outbound (FG) inventory.
·  Tender acceptance – measuring our carrier base adherence to RFP allocation and managing compliance.
·  Safety – ensuring proper safety protocol is administered across network.
·  Lead quarterly carrier summit – develop presentation and lead summit conversation with our top partner carriers.
·  Daily operational management – act as escalation contact for carrier performance opportunities.
·  Spend Management:
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·  Routing guide compliance – managing the effectiveness and depth of the routing guide to ensure our actual freight spend is aligned with expected and coming in below budget.
·  Assessorial management – developing creative solutions to decrease assessorial spend.
·  Mitigating risk to customer fines and fees – developing sustainable solutions to achieve customer service levels and avoid monetary penalization (north of $18MM).
·  Optimal sourcing – responsible for ship point analytics to ensure we are servicing customer orders from the optimal mixing center.
·  Payload optimization – developing creative and sustainable solutions to maximize payload on inbound and outbound freight.

Critical Mars Supply Capabilities:

·  Optimizes the Supply Chain.
·  Analyzes & Improves Performance.


Key Supporting Competencies:

·  Logistics Management.
·  Commercial Awareness.
·  Analytical Capability.
·  Financial Essentials.
·  Lean Principles.

Key Functional Skills/Knowledge:

·  Experience in logistics operations, transportation and warehousing.
·  Experience working with ERP and transportation management systems.
·  Ability to analyze large sets of data for recommending and implementing solutions.
·  Functions well in a high pressure environment where urgency is required and able to prioritize effectively.
·  Ability to develop and manage external vendor relationships and drive continuous improvement. Strong interpersonal skills are required to effectively influence with multiple internal and external customers to driver optimal performance for logistics network.
·  Ability to access and manipulate data from multiple sources to create usable information to assist decision making and analysis. Use of Excel to create pivot tables, V-lookup tables or Microsoft Access queries is needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

·  BS / BA Business, Logistics, Supply Chain or quantitative discipline.
·  Two to five (2-5) years supply chain experience that includes movement of either inbound or outbound freight.
·  Familiar with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications:

·  Six Sigma qualification.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Nearest Major Market: Nashville
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