Supply Chain Network Analyst

Why Valvoline Global Operations?

Valvoline Global is a worldwide leader in automotive and industrial solutions, creating future-ready products and best-in-class services for partners around the globe. Established in 1866, we introduced the world’s first branded motor oil, claiming our position as The Original Motor Oil. As an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we continue to invest strategically and expand globally, driving unparalleled product innovation and sustainable business solutions.

Our corporate values of care, integrity, passion, unified, and excellence shape everything we do. Living out our values is what makes our company, our employees, our partners, our customers, and the communities we serve great.

When you join Valvoline Global, you join a culture that is committed to: treating all people with care, operating with integrity, striving for excellence in everything we do, showing passion about delivering on our commitments, and being unified in all our enterprise endeavors.

Valvoline global entering a new exciting chapter that is focusing on aggressive market share growth as part of a 5 year plan. As part of this plan the company is investing in new critical supply chain roles and capabilities. The Supply Chain Network Design Analyst, such a role. The Supply Chain Network Design Analyst will play an influential role by collaborating with business leaders and regularly examining the alignment between strategic plans and operational capabilities developing long- and medium-term action plans. Network Design Analysts build long-range capacity planning models to provide valuable time to proactively adjust operational capacity to enable profitable growth and provide key inputs to both capital and strategic planning.Medium-term optimizations of existing supply chains are also performed. The analyst will provide network design insights for one region. This role is a highly visible role in the organization as the role holder will have exposure across all departments of Valvoline Global and act as an ambassador for achieving supply chain excellence through network optimization.

What You'll Be Doing..

• Regional supply chain network and strategy modeling: Build and maintain supply chain network optimization models including data and assumption validation, scenario building, results visualization and presentation to leadership. Test scenarios for future network changes (new plants, warehouses, etc.) and future changes to the supply chain strategy (add services, inventory management, etc.)
• Optimization of existing supply chains: Build and maintain supply chain linear program models simulating existing supply chain networks and comparing alternatives based on fixed assets, raw material costs, operations, and transportation expenses to determine the lowest cost to serve model. Work with customer service teams to set customer ship defaults. Work with operations, technical and purchasing to optimize assets such as tanks, raw materials, and formulations.
• Long range capacity planning: Identify required operational capabilities by analyzing the business strategic plan. Assess limitations of critical resources by quantifying the upper and lower limits of capacities and the risk appetite of the business. Project future requirements for each resource by translating aggregate demand forecasts at resource level. Capture capacity gaps by comparing requirement projections with capacity limitations. Track capacity gap resolution by assigning evaluation projects to appropriate functions and assessing progress regularly.
• Stakeholder Management. Ability to present proposed network optimization models and assumptions behind them to stakeholders at various levels of the organization. This includes the ability to distil complex topics in to easy to understand summaries at all levels of the organization.
• Ambassadorship, the Network Design Analyst is a highly visible role within the organization as they act as an ambassador for achieving supply chain excellence through Network Optimization.

Required

What You'll Bring...

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree, majoring in business, mathematics, statistics, supply chain, finance, or engineering.
• Plus:
• A master’s degree in business, engineering, or supply chain management.
• A certification in supply chain from APICS and/or CSCMP

Work Experience

• 1-2 years of experience in Network Modeling highly desired
• Experience in end-to-end supply chain.
• One year of experience in demand planning and/or S&OP.
• Experience in building and presenting business cases.
• One year of experience in supply planning.
• Proven track record of successfully working with all levels within an organization.
• A certification in supply chain from APICS and/or CSCMP

Knowledge, Skills And Competences

• Analytic skills to model and evaluate effectiveness of international supply chain networks at a regional scale.
• Good presentation skills and the ability to distill complex themes and topics into easy to understand executive summaries and stakeholder briefings.
• Knowledge and analytic skills in supply chain network model creation and interpretation.
• Knowledge in planning processes: demand planning, supply planning, new products introduction, material planning and S&OP process.
• Interpersonal skills to work with strategic planning, business partners, and supply chain at all levels of the organization.
• Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity and divergence of cross functional interests that impact the network optimization projects.

This position is available at one of two locations: Rotterdam or Dordrecht.

Valvoline Global provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Are you good at what you do? Join us.

The Company has put a process in place to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, upon request, to applicants with disabilities in order to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at 1-800-Valvoline or email 1-800Valvoline@valvoline.com to make a request for reasonable accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. The contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Requisition ID: 1108