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Exotec is a French industrial unicorn that combines AI and advanced robotics to revolutionize supply chain and logistics for major retail and industrial brands worldwide. This role is a global supply chain and inventory engineering position reporting to the Global Service Center Manager.
You will serve as the subject-matter expert for supply chain and inventory management across Exotec's global network of Service Centers (robotics support and maintenance operations). Your mission is to make supply chain a lever for sustainable performance across all service centers, ensuring reliability, harmonization, and optimization of processes, tools, and practices.
Key responsibilities include:
**Global Supply & Inventory Management:** Supervise critical planning and procurement flows to guarantee parts availability. Validate transfer order proposals and track critical work-in-progress. Define and drive Demand Planning and replenishment processes to align forecasts, operational needs, and inventory levels. Propose supply chain and stock optimization strategies. Manage parts availability while controlling costs and inventory levels. Lead initiatives to reduce dormant and obsolete stock. Define parts lifecycle management and obsolescence prevention strategies. Set logistics performance standards and support local teams in transport partner oversight. Support local teams in resolving complex situations.
**Operational Excellence:** Ensure consistency, efficiency, and performance of supply chain processes across all Service Centers. Define, formalize, and deploy supply chain, inventory, and planning standards. Drive continuous improvement initiatives in logistics, procurement, and inventory management. Identify performance gaps, analyze root causes, and pilot corrective action plans. Promote best-practice sharing and lessons learned across regions.
**Systems & Tools Leadership:** Act as Super Key User for supply chain, inventory, and logistics tools (SAP, DDMRP, Power BI, and associated systems). Ensure business configuration, data reference consistency, and management standards compliance. Support user adoption and optimal tool utilization. Develop and maintain training materials and business documentation. Contribute to tool roadmap definition in collaboration with IT, Data, and business teams. Identify digitalization and process automation opportunities.
**Performance Management:** Own achievement of global KPIs for parts availability, stock value, inventory turnover, and obsolete stock reduction. Lead supply chain performance reviews with regions and track associated action plans. Define and monitor supply chain KPIs. Evolve dashboards and reporting tools with Data teams. Analyze trends, identify operational risks, and spot improvement opportunities. Propose and pilot corrective actions to improve parts availability, service levels, and inventory control. Provide regular reporting to management.
**Strategic Project Leadership:** Lead or contribute to structural projects related to processes, tools, inventory management, and logistics organization. Coordinate deployment of new solutions, methodologies, and system evolutions. Participate in major transformation initiatives (ERP, logistics hubs, inventory optimization, Demand Planning, process digitalization). Ensure alignment between Service Center operational needs and company strategic objectives. Measure project benefits and guarantee achievement of expected results.
**Requirements:**
- Engineering degree or equivalent qualification in Supply Chain, Logistics, or Industrial Engineering
- Minimum 4 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, planning, or inventory management roles with strong operational and project dimensions in an international (ideally multi-site) environment
- Excellent mastery of supply chain and inventory management processes
- Solid knowledge of Demand Planning, Forecasting, and Inventory Management principles
- Good knowledge of SAP
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and data analysis tools (BigQuery a plus)
- Solid knowledge of Lean methodologies and continuous improvement practices (appreciated)
