Supply Chain Strategy and Optimization

Overview

Shell is seeking a Supply Chain Strategy and Optimization Analyst to support Lubricants Americas in delivering its growth ambitions, driving sales and operations planning and supply chain optimization for the North and South America lubricant network.

What you'll do

• Work across sectors and lines of business to identify pain points, constraints and value leakage, and drive gap closure initiatives.
• Work with Shell owned and third-party assets to identify operational challenges and constraints, drive resolution and increase customer satisfaction.
• Support the S&OP process by ensuring sufficient end-to-end capacity in the network to support demand, from raw materials to production to logistics.
• Determine optimal customer and production sourcing by evaluating feasibility, capacity, cost, working capital and customer satisfaction trade-offs.
• Optimize the supply chain footprint by identifying opportunities such as optimization of constraint resources and economic order quantity.
• Work with sales and marketing to rationalize the portfolio to reduce complexity and increase overall Lubricants Americas profitability.
• Work collectively across lubricants to ensure profitability targets are met.
• Work with Sales and Marketing across sectors to understand their specific needs and develop an end-to-end strategy to support those sectors.
• Work with a specific sector to define a winning portfolio and associated portfolio metrics, e.g., % tail, ROACE, profitability, customer satisfaction.
• Develop outlets for slow moving (tail) products to minimize value loss.
• Drive initiatives with Sales & Marketing and Product Management to develop a view of customer wants vs needs to maximize profitability.
• Optimize product component cost and develop product supply security optionality to enable business goals.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in supply chain optimization, preferably in a manufacturing or logistics environment (in FMCG environment).
• Inventory Optimization, Inventory Buffer or safety stock management experience is required.
• Experience driving COGS reduction and cost optimization initiatives.
• Prior experience in the S&OP process and/or managing a product portfolio.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools such as Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Spotfire, Alteryx.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Nice to have

• Experience in SAP or other supply planning tools and/or supply chain planning software.
• Prior Lubricants experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India (Retail Office). The role will be based out of India to support the lubricants business in North America.
• Willingness to work during US hours (Houston) with some flexibility.
• Shift allowance (as per India country norms) is provided for off-shift requirements in addition to the regular salary.
• Employment type: Regular. Experience level: Experienced Professionals.