Gmm Inbound Eame Lead

**Career Area**:
Logistics

Passionate about supply chain, eager and motivated to work in a global team, but individually very strong to face the world of logistics.

**Responsibilities**:
Inbound management for EAME facilities under 3PL Control Towers concept, with the goal to provide on-time delivery and part level visibility throughout the supply chain.

Managing supply chain and transport activities from a project mindset, covering a network of 400+ overseas suppliers to 14 Caterpillar Manufacturing facilities in EMEA, with an annual volume of +/- 66 million kgs or +/-19k shipments, across all transportation modes

Primary contact for Caterpillar EAME manufacturing facilities to identify opportunities and drive improvements in inbound international supply chain, while maintaining or improving total end to end transit time, and cost, from supplier to manufacturing facility.

Establish daily operational framework for inbound material

Establish solid contact/communication pipeline with EMEA receiving facilities, using available local logistics resources

Take superuser role in development and support to implement new visibility and collaboration tool.

Required skills

Very good communication skills (up and down from procurement to supply chain managers) both written and verbal - and excellent active listening skills

Process driven

Analytical mind - put logic to data and use it to drive improvements, communicate the message effectively and efficiently

Good understanding of the financials that drive the business

Proven project management skills on global level

Team player and able to work with different departments

**Languages**: English, French is a plus as one of the main facilities is in France.

Capacity to set priorities and to establish a work plan with an ability to adapt to a changing environment

Good understanding and capacity to learn and use different tools and Experience:
Experience in Supply chain (operations, procurement, projects)

Knowledge in transportation and logistics are a plus

**Location**: Grimbergen, Belgium

**Travel**: Up to 15 %

Description

The Global Material Management program brings visibility at the part level on overseas shipments moved in the Caterpillar network using the INFOR Nexus platform. Suppliers are ordering for the freight on this INX platform which allow the different team involved in the Cat network to manage the international freight while gathering milestones allowing to track each shipment.

International freight is a complex world with a lot of parties involved and hence, as the GMM Inbound lead for EU facilities, your job is to support facilities.

Within this position you are the key contact for EU facilities which means that you are representing the transportation group, centralising questions and queries and make sure facilities get the support needed.

**This support means**:

- Training about the INX platform for material planners as well as daily support in regard to the use of INX as well as the tracking of shipments and supporting emergency shipments. Your key skill for this support is the patience and the capacity to adapt to the audience and to listen and understand difficulties incurred to find opportunities to keep improving processes
- Monthly meetings with facilities’ supply chain managers and material procurement supervisors to share GMM data (suppliers on boarding, volume, transit time) and discuss projects opportunities to reduce freight cost or inventory by reducing transit time. You need to be capable of listening and understand requests, manage expectations, convince a broader audience of projects opportunities. You are highly customer oriented while making sure you manage expectations not to jeopardize your organisation by accepting things which are not doable.
- Through business understanding and data analysis you generate projects ideas to reduce freight cost, inventory and improve processes. Once projects opportunities are identified by you or submitted by facilities; you are leading the projects, gathering the right people and performing analysis. You are also SME on regional projects or projects impacting all the regions. You are strong in analytics, capable of thinking differently and see defects as improvement opportunities. You are strong in change management to convince facilities and manage solutions’ implementation. You enjoy leading project as well as working as an SME to support projects.

You evolve in a changing environment where improvements are everywhere so you can actually make a difference for your organisation and the EU facilities by thinking out of the box, analyse opportunities and defend your ideas.

You are working closely with all the regions and thus get to learn other cultures, processes, and way of working and as part of this International team you get to be the voice of the EU facilities for projects impacting all the regions.

You are passionate about your job, you deal well with changes and