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About Amcor

Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other products. Amcor works with leading companies around the world to protect their products and the people who rely on them, differentiate brands, and improve value chains through a range of flexible and rigid packaging, specialty cartons, closures, and services. The company is focused on making packaging that is increasingly light-weighted, recyclable and reusable, and made using a rising amount of recycled content. Around 47,000 Amcor people generate US$12.5 billion in sales from operations that span about 230 locations in 40-plus countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC

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Position Job Title:                  Director, Logistics EMEA

BG and BU:                             Amcor Flexibles EMEA, Central Operations

Function:                                 Operations     

Sub-Function:                         Supply Chain

Location:                                 Open location across Europe

Line Manager’s Job Title:      Senior Director of Supply Chain

Advertising Legal Entity:       Amcor Group GmbH

Work contract Legal Entity:   Amcor Group GmbH

Contract Length:                     Permanent

 

Job Purpose, DIMENSION AND SCOPE

 

The Director of AFEMEA Logistics is responsible for improving customer service by achieving performance excellence in the logistics activities. His/her responsibility includes all warehousing, transportation, distribution, customs/duty compliance and flow of goods to our manufacturing sites and our customers. He/she is responsible for driving logistics tools and process harmonization across all the BUs and the Sites of AFEMEA.

 

He/she will lead the transformation of the Logistics organization and activities in AFEMEA. He/she will lead the Regional Logistics team that will be set up according to the SC organizational transformation blueprint.

 

He/she will report to the Senior SC Director of AFEMEA and be a member of the AFEMEA SC Leadership Team. He/she is expected to collaborate closely with the Manufacturing, Sales, & Procurement Teams.

 

Principal Accountabilities

 

Main Responsibilities

• Create, implement and manage health and safety procedures in the logistics area


• Develop a medium to long-term strategy that delivers a best-in-class logistics operation / solution


• Strengthen customer service by improving logistics performance


• Understand core competence scope in Logistics and outsource non-core activities


• Optimize delivery times and transport costs


• Manage logistics operations, both internal and external


• Evaluate and understand leveraging and outsourcing opportunities


• Monitor and evaluate logistics performance and plan improvements


• Plan and implement logistics performance improvement plans


• Present findings, ideas and improvement plans to senior leaders


• Manage resources according to changing needs


• Identify best practices and roll out across BUs/Plants


• Lead continuous improvement activities


• Monitor, report and analyse market/industry trends and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve best in market outcomes.


• Monitor progress of ongoing improvement projects, tracking benefits realisation


• Leverage the experience and expertise both internally and with our key logistics partners to accelerate the pace of change


• Motivate and Manage Team


• Identify, develop, and manage the Logistics SMEs in the AFEMEA network


• Collaborate with various teams in cross-functional supply improvement projects


• Prepare high quality, concise, and accurate Logistics reporting


• Manage IT systems

 

Results Achievement

 

• Ensure customer satisfaction


• Reduce & optimize Logistics costs


• Reduce delivery times to customers


• Ensure information sharing and effective dissemination


• Master change and conflict management


• Establish efficient partnership with other functions across Bus & Functional pillars


• Support CI activities development and savings

 

Qualifications/Requirements

 

1. Formal Qualifications and Experience

• University degree in Business, Logistics, Science, or similar disciplines represented in SC


• 15 years overall operational experience in Supply Chain, including 10 years in Logistics related appointments


• Strong change management, analytical, and organizational skills


• Fluent in English


• Proven competency with information tools

 

1.  Specific Skills And Abilities

• Comfortable with change and ambiguity


• Strong organizational capabilities


• Very good communication capability


• Strong analytical capabilities


• Ability to influence, motivate and mobilize stakeholders and peers


• Result driven, focus on results and added value creation


• Proactive, with the ability to anticipate and motivated to create value


• Perseverance and resilience


• Self-motivated and emotionally intelligent


• Dynamic/curious/passionate


• Ability to think critically


• Ability to challenge and translate data

 

AMCOR FLEXIBLES EMEA

With more than 55 plants in 22 countries, Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa (AFEMEA), a division of Amcor, is a market leader and the world's largest supplier of flexible packaging. We deliver innovative packaging solutions and provide enhanced quality products for the food, beverage, pharma, personal care, medical and industrial markets. Its award winning approach towards sustainability makes AFEMEA the preferred partner for customers looking for responsible packaging solutions.