Assistant Manager, Trade & Logistics (Luxury MNC)

 

Our client is one of the world's most iconic jewellery brands, they are currently looking for an Assistant Manager, Trade & Logistics to join the organisation.

 

 

Responsibilities

Strategic Supply Chain Management

• Provide leadership to strategic projects, and improve the supply chain to support the speed of the Asia business.  
• Developing business cases and project plans to continuously improve supply chain efficiency and cost control.
• Partnering with Supply Chain team to improve the lead-time to ASIA retail stores for merchandise by leverage in-stock KPI, Fill ratio, etc.
• Corporate with merchandising team for product movements, balancing the trade-off between duty cost and speed for event planning.
• Leading both operation team and forwarders to drive the improvement of logistics lead time performance

Data, Process & Dashboard Maintenance

• Actively partner the Centre of Excellence team to develop globally consistent methods of assigning, capturing and analysing data for both customs and logistics areas.  
• Contributing timely and accurate HS code assignment logic rules to the GTL Centre of Excellence for Retail Foundation countries
• Reviewing brokers’ entries and Finance background tables to ensure that the same set of HS codes are utilised.
• Regularly reviewing reports to detect material master data issues for high-risk countries in Asia
• Assist Director to host QBR with forwarders on quarterly basis.
• Design and build reports, dashboards and visualizations of key performance indicators (KPIs)

Daily Supply Chain Efficiency

• Actively manage shipments, dissect the freight-related spend, and enable data-based decision-making.  
• Partnering Creative and Store Development teams to unblock problematic shipments into the Asia. Involve the proactive research of HS codes and import licensing requirements.
• Maintaining SOP for Asian markets and forwarders/ brokers

Customs Compliance

• Working with the GTL Centre of Excellence team to enhance customs compliance with the least possible operational burden.  
• Maintaining the delicate balance in compliance, cost and speed, especially for high-profile shipments
• Understanding Customs policies and regulations in Asia and be well kept up-to-date to any changes in the region

Responsibilities

• Bachelor degree with 8+ years of logistics and customs experience in multi-country environment
• Excellent IT skills, demonstrating a strong desire to “self-service” and learn new systems, rather than relying on others to extract data
• Able to find ways to effectively work with a virtual team of direct and dotted line reports
• Detail oriented, strong numerical and analytical sense
• Good command of both spoken and written English