Supply Chain Process Engineer Assistant Manager

About the Job:

The Supply Chain Process Engineer Assistant Manager leads the implementation of best-in-class Logistics and Warehousing capabilities for Singapore market, to transform the local supply chain for better agility, ultimate luxury service, cost and cash efficiencies and sustainability, leveraging digitalization and automation. The role spans across internal three divisions – Beauty, Fashion and Watches & Fine Jewelry. You will work closely with various departments such as retail operations, technology, information systems, sustainability as well as global and regional supply chain experts to implement the best solutions to market, while ensuring upskilling of existing organization. The process engineer Assistant Manager plays a critical role to transform the supply chain and bring a competitive advantage to Chanel.

What impact you can create at Chanel

Lead discussions for all topics related to warehousing and transportation transformation, while proposing to the Head of Supply Chain final process improvements and decisions to be made:

1. Warehouse & Transportation Management:

• Order Management: Establish strategies and implement plans to move to a touchless order management flow – from order acquisition to order processing and to order release to warehousing operations for pick and pack
• Warehouse operations: Define strategies to implement best-in-class operations for the warehousing team, looking at opportunities to implement automation solutions in the areas of receiving, stock counting, picking, packing and/or shipping. And be the project leader for implementation of the strategies, in a way that lead times to customers are reduced and team’s productivity is increased.
• Inventory management: Upgrade inventory management processes to cover all domain of inventories – selling items, visual merchandizing items and all non-selling stocks. Lead the alignment with the business teams on what success looks like and define and implement new governance process to make breakthrough improvement in inventory holdings. Implement inventory forecasting and warehouse capacity planning to improve business plans and business continuity. In driving alignment with business teams, Head of Supply Chain should be consulted and will need to sign off on final process. This role will need to propose options for the business teams and Head of Supply Chain to consider.
• Transportation management: Redesign transportation management with better work integration with transportation companies and better efficiency for the team.

2. Digital Transformation

• Streamline work processes: Lead the transformation to a fully digital organization, with objectives to streamline work processes and complete elimination of low added-value tasks with improved lead time, better compliance to global policies and better productivity. This includes deployment of new IT solutions and/or development of no/low code solution for the team
• Digital Twin: upon completion of foundation layer of digitalization, lead the implementation of a warehousing and transportation digital twin, creating a virtual model of the existing operation and enabling advanced analytics, scenario planning and cost and inventory optimizations

3. Others

• Continuously keep abreast of and advise management regarding changes or latest trends in warehouse and transportation management practices
• Any other related ad-hoc projects: global or regional supply chain project, e.g related to sustainability improvement, operating system change, data & analytics requirements for supply chain team

You are energised by

• Leading and collaborating with diverse teams at all levels of organization.
• Being agile, flexible and able to deal with ambiguity.
• Curiosity, positivity and championing strong work ethics
• Leading courageously and able to challenge the status quo to implement bold changes
• Influencing critical topics and facilitating meaningful conversations in a non-hierarchal way.
• Working in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment.
• Thriving to deliver in a fast-paced environment

What you will bring

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in driving breakthrough in supply chain management, such as warehousing, logistics or supply chain transformation.
• Qualifications in Supply Chain Management or related engineering field. Additional qualifications/certificates in Project Management and/or digital tools are preferred.
• Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent digital skills – M365, Power BI or other BI Tools, RPA and no/low code solutions.

What Chanel can offer you

• Brand Legacy: In-depth exposure into the brand and cultural evolution of the House of Chanel.
• Talent Development: Chanel is committed to developing and empowering our people.
• Collaborative Culture: Be part of a collaborative and inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives are valued, and partnerships are fostered across functions and regions.
• Support and Resources: You will have access to the resources, support and infrastructure needed to continue to grow successfully.

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to Chanel.