Our client is a well-established and highly regarded European headquartered provider of intralogistics solutions and enterprise systems. Experiencing strong growth in demand and pre-sales activity, they have now created a new role for a Senior Logistics Consultant to join either their Sydney or Melbourne operations.
Reporting to and working in close collaboration with the Head of Intralogistics, you will play a pivotal role in consulting with end-clients, leading the solution and implementing hardware and WMS software logistics solutions in already automated and non-automated distribution centres. In this role, you will work closely with existing and new clients to provide efficient, effective and safe bespoke warehouse solutions that utilise the latest technology.
This dynamic and wide-ranging position brings a varied workload from consulting with clients about their operational needs, to site walk-throughs and running customer workshops to collaborating with internal colleagues and driving the design of a new solution.
Responsibilities will include:
* Work closely with and support the sales team during scoping phase by ensuring solutions meet the client business objectives
* Provide business insights to customers to assist them on the change management required to move to automated solutions
* Define customer supply chain processes.
* Analyse customers business requirement documentation / data and work with clients to establish business requirements
* Create operational process flows, functional design documents / scoping statements and design documents (including interface design documents)
* Support of project management in relation to technical details during project implementation.
About you:
Whether you come from a vendor, consultancy or end-client/3PL environment, you can demonstrate operational understanding of warehouse / DC operations and appreciate the importance of inventory integrity etc.
In addition to your Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics (or similar), you have strong expertise in hardware/software intralogistics solutions and enterprise systems, an appreciation of operations in large complex supply chain environments and experience in large and complex supply chain projects.
In addition, you have / are:
* Experience in consulting and integration, preferably including knowledge of warehouse management systems (WMS), or related software e.g. ERP, WCS or manufacturing
* Proven experience in either consulting or technology / CapEx leadership roles in supply chain
* Experience in manufacturing or warehouse automation is mandatory
* Some experience in software development lifecycle, including testing
* Ability to scope testing, including creation of test plans
* Ability to create training materials and operational procedures
* Experience in managing feedback loop to product management
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
(Some experience in process re-engineering, lean six sigma or business transformations would be highly regarded but is not essential)
Note: although based in NSW or VIC, some interstate and occasional international travel is involved in this position.
This senior position is a key hire for this well-regarded and supportive organisation. It will provide the successful candidate with exposure to a broad variety of business critical responsibilities, as well as the opportunity to be influential in designing the framework, organisational structure and processes to deliver similar projects in the global business.
Please follow the link to apply or contact [email protected] / 0435985089 for a confidential discussion.
Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
