Senior Inventory Specialist

**SENIOR INVENTORY SPECIALIST**

**BELGIUM - WESTERLO (HYBRID WORK PATTERN) OR EU/UK REMOTE**

Our vision is to create a world without limits for people with diabetes and related conditions.

Join us at LifeScan, maker of the iconic OneTouch® brand diabetes products to bring to life our mission to deliver personalized health & wellness experiences that engage people to live their best lives. LifeScan has had an unwavering commitment to improving the quality of life for people with diabetes by developing agile products defined by simplicity, accuracy, and trust to enable knowledge, wellness and health. We have virtual, dynamic and on-site employees in markets around the globe.

LifeScan is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania and has a 31,600 square metre state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution facility in Inverness, Scotland. With more than 2,000 employees LifeScan serves more than 90 countries.

**_At LifeScan we believe our talented and passionate team is what makes us special. We inspire excellence and teamwork through our Shared Values of Care, Create, Connect and Compete._**

We have a great opportunity for a **Senior Inventory Specialist** to join our inventory management team. You will report into our Commercial Operations manager who is leading the inventory team.

**About the team**:
As part of the global Lifescan Commercial team, the Inventory team ensures that:

- Inventory in all our warehouses is well controlled and managed through processes defined by quality.
- Our products arrive at the right place and at the right time within our global regions on a daily basis.
- There is a close collaboration with our contracted distribution center (Third Party Logistics provider / 3PL) and many internal stakeholders, as relationship management and data driven insights are an essential part in this complex environment.
- There is a high focus on process improvement and streamlining processes globally through our distribution centers.

We are a dynamic team with a balance of skills which include: understanding and translating our customer expectations into action, delivering improvement plans in close cooperation with our 3PL, and reporting on these action plans with our internal stakeholders.

If customer focus is in your professional DNA, you have a hands-on mentality, and you feel at home in an inspiring workplace where you can gain a lot of experience within an international environment then we're looking for you

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Understanding and assessing the actual Inventory process flows with a result-oriented mindset & customer experience approach.
- Being part of our inventory ‘ears and eyes” team, and play a key role in providing insights into
inventory statuses to our internal stakeholders (customer service/commercial/plan/quality teams) through pro-active information sharing.
- Bringing a strong level of service, with an ability to look end-to-end across the Value Chain, always thinking about the customer's
- Being a core team member to future projects; assessing operational impact on running processes, contributing to project testing phases, developing and/or maintaining process documentation, and providing project updates to the rest of the team.
- Mapping out clear roles and responsibilities (RACI) for all current and future processes, identifying and screening process improvements, and driving global standardisation of these processes.

**Requirements**:
**Required Qualifications and Skills**:
You will bring:

- A hands-on, eager to learn and process/result-oriented approach, with a proactive, problem
- solving, ‘can-do'-attitude.
- Strong analytical mindset; able to identify the root cause of issues and resolve them.
- Experience in managing inventory-related processes.
- An ability to balance a busy, ever-changing workload, prioritizing tasks and taking independent decisions to ensure the work is carried out effectively and efficiently.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; you'll thrive on being a positive role model and team player.
- An ability to build and maintain strong, effective working relationships and partnerships across the organization and with our 3PL supplier.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (EN). Knowledge of NL is a plus.
- Strong IT skills, particularly in the use of the MS Office product suite.
- Knowledge of ERP systems and analytics tools (Oracle, JD Edwards, Tableau) is a plus. Training support will be provided so an eagerness to learn is required

We pride ourselves in creating a fantastic team environment that allows everyone to grow and develop. Therefore, it's important to us that you have:

- High Emotional Intelligence with an ability to work with multi-cultural teams.
- Able to recognise and welcome diversity.
- Flexibility, agility and a solution-oriented approach.
- A spirit of continuous improvement.

**What YOU will gain from the role**:
It goes without saying that we will support