Supply Chain Specialist

Founded in 1899, Sonoco (NYSE: SON) is a leading manufacturer of consumer, industrial, healthcare and protective packaging. With more than 19,000 employees working in 34 countries, Sonoco serves many of the world’s best-known brands. Our integrated packaging solutions help define brand personalities, create unique customer experiences and enhance the quality of products and the quality of life for people around the world. It’s all in the service of our purpose: Better Packaging. Better Life. Sonoco is committed to creating sustainable products, services and programs for our customers, employees and communities.

Within the central European Supply Chain Group, we work together with all angles of the organization, from logistics over operations and finance. With several system implementations (Oracle as ERP, planning tool) and strategic optimisation of the locations, a big variety of projects is in the pipeline.

The Supply Chain Specialist will be a team member in one project and a lead in other projects. This gives the possibility to evolve yourself within the organisation and get the projects with the best fit.

As the projects are spread over Europe, some travel will be part of the job.

This role will expose the candidate to all facets of the Sonoco Europe’s processes.  The objective is to learn those processes while implementing already defined projects in different plants. We are looking for a person that has a passion for processes and strategic change management, with specific interest towards supply chain.

This role is an ideal position for a young professional with a few years of experience. It provides in a very short time a comprehensive insight in Sonoco processes and operational set up whilst allowing the candidate to develop the necessary expertise that will serve as foundation for her/his future success and career. It also provides the opportunity to learn about Sonoco’s manufacturing and supply chain processes in depth.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn Sonoco business processes with focus on Supply Chain.

• Work with plant employees to establish standard operating procedures to provide long-term sustainable improvements in operations, quality and services.

• Take part in the execution of Continuous Improvement Management methodologies.

• Work together with other team to put standard processes in place (development, evaluation, training)

• Learn Oracle ERP system and be a specialist in Oracle ERP functionality

• Learn non-Oracle systems need to support the business, eg. Production planning

• Help implementation of Oracle ERP system

  • Assist in system configuration

  • Assist in data clean up

  • Documentation of Sonoco processes in Oracle

  • Training of users

Desired skills & experience

• Master Degree in Engineering, Economics, Logistics, General Management or equivalent based on experience.

• Project Management skills, ability to understand complex situations and apply simple and logic solutions. The ideal candidate has strong technical data analysis skills.

• ERP tool knowledge is a plus

• Fluent in English

• Mature and proactive approach, stress resistant

• Analytical & conceptual skills, good communication skills

• Supportive and consultative

• Decisive and actions oriented

• Team player, results oriented

Are you interested in this Position at Sonoco?

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please apply via the link below with your up-to-date CV in English language.

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