Imerys Asia Pacific Pte Ltd – Business Planning & Supply Chain Analyst Intern (6 Months)

Business Planning & Supply Chain Analyst Intern (Part Time / Full Time, 6 Months)

JOB SUMMARY

Support the Business Planning & Supply Chain Analyst in building dashboards, reporting tools, data analysis and action plans to improve KPIs related to business planning, supply chain and customer services across Asia Pacific. A specific focus of this role is the ongoing project to track cargos during transportation: work closely with solution providers to assess their track & trace solution for Imerys cargos at sea. 

This solution will help Imerys Asia-Pacific improve its customer satisfaction by providing live info on their orders. It will also help the logistics and business planning teams in APAC to manage the flows of materials more efficiently.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This position will allow the candidate to understand and improve other reporting processes related to business planning, supply chain and customer services. The willingness and interest to play with data is critical for this internship.

This position will also provide a methodology on project management as the intern will act as project manager for the implementation of the Track & Trace tool.

Track & Trace tool: pilot Phase with a selected provider:

• A provider has already been selected and trials are ongoing until Q1 2022.
• Monitor the pilots with the local teams
• Continue to automate interfaces between Imerys ERP data (mostly Google Sheets / SQL databases) and the Track & Trace tool
• Continue to automate the reports and analysis of the data from the Track & Trace tool (mostly Google Studio reports using extracts from the tool) via Google Scripts (can be learned during the internship)
• Pilot phase review according to the KPIs
• Perform analysis of data on a monthly bases (e.g. containers delayed, orders with missing data) and liaise with the Supply Chain and Customer Service teams to share the analysis and formalize action plans
• Serve as the master user for the Track & Trace tool, and to guide and train the local team towards transition of automated uploads and reviews of data.

Track & Trace tool: implementation phase if the pilot phase is successful:

• Roll out the solution as per planning
• Formalize a manual to use the tool, coordinate the training with the provider

Others:

• If the intern is interested, the intern can be involved in the analysis of monthly KPIs and identification of actions.
• The intern will be invited to join monthly performance reviews with the management team of Business Planning & Supply Chain. It will provide a helicopter view on operations at Imerys.
• Key interfaces: strong partnership to be built with (i) BP&SC from other Business Areas, (ii) Supply Chain & Customer services, (iii) IT, (iii) Purchasing; (iv) leaders in innovation in logistics e.g. Bollore Blue, PSA Group, CMA-CGM, Solvay, (v) Track & Trace tool vendors (e.g. Shipsy, Project 44)

EDUCATION:

• Minimum Masters in Engineering Studies (Information Systems/Computing/Logistics/Supply Chain/Mathematics)

EXPERIENCE:

• At least 1 experience of interacting with different stakeholders from different organisation
• Curious about data management, computer sciences, IT, logistics and innovation
• Project management
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent integrity and ethical standards.
• Strategic thinking, interpersonal skills, ability to propose solutions
• Advocate for data integrity
• Computer skills required (Google Suites (with a focus on Sheets / Studio / Scripts), ERP, etc)

LANGUAGES:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, conversing in other languages is an added advantage.