, India

Job Family Group:

Commercial and Retail

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

Business unit:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Shell began operations in India more than 80 years ago. At Shell India, we invest in our people through our industry-leading development programmes, which sees our employees thrive and gain access to experts on a local and global level.  

To date, we have invested more than US$ 1 billion already in India’s energy sector alone, in socially and environmentally responsible ways. Shell is the only global major to have a fuel retail license in India.

Shell aims to establish a broader Lubricants Supply Chain presence in Bangalore and scale up in the coming years.

Where you fit in 

This role will support Lubricants Americas in delivering its growth ambitions. Lubricants Americas is within the Shell Global Lubricants portfolio-- A business advancing towards an accelerated growth commitment by 2025 with a 10% CAGR.

As part of the Lubricants Americas Supply Chain Optimization and Projects organization, this team will drive world class Sales and Operations Planning for North and South America lubricant supply chain network across multiple sales channels (B2B, B2C, Indirect, Retail). The broad product portfolio includes fast-moving consumer goods, products exclusively developed for key customers, and specialty products with niche applications. 

What’s the role 

• Work across sectors and lines of businesses to identify pain points/constraints/value leakage, to drive gap closure initiatives.
• Work with Shell owned and third party assets to identify operational challenges and constraints in order to drive resolution and to increase customer satisfaction.
• Supporting the S&OP process by ensuring sufficient e2e capacity in network to support demand – from raw materials to production to logistics.
• Determining optimal customer and production sourcing by evaluating feasibility, capacity, cost, working capital, and customer satisfaction trade-offs.
• Optimizing the supply chain footprint by identifying opportunities ranging from optimization of constraint resources, economic order quantity, etc.
• Work with sales and marketing to rationalize portfolio to reduce complexity and increase overall lubricants Americas profitability.
• Work collectively across lubricants to ensure profitability targets are met.

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Portfolio/COGS Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization

• Work with Sales and Marketing across the various sectors to understand their specific needs and develop an end-to-end strategy to support those sectors
• Work with a specific sector to define winning portfolio and associated portfolio metrics, e.g., % tail, ROACE, profitability, customer satisfaction etc. 
• Develop outlets for slow moving (tail) products to minimize value loss
• Drive initiatives with Sales & Marketing and Product Management to develop a view of customer wants vs needs to maximize profitability.
• Look to optimize product component cost and develop product supply security optionality to enable business goals.
• Work with sales and marketing to rationalize portfolio to reduce complexity and increase overall lubricants Americas profitability.
• Work collectively across lubricants to ensure profitability targets are met.

What we need from you

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in supply chain optimization, preferably in a manufacturing or logistics environment (in FMCG environment)
• Prior experience in the S&OP process/managing product portfolio
• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools such as Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Spotfire, Alteryx.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in SAP or other Supply Planning tools and/or Supply Chain planning software is a plus.
• Prior Lubricants experience is a plus.

The role will be based out of India to support the lubricants business in the North America. The working hours will be US hours (Houston) with some flexibility. Shift allowance (as per India country norms) will be provided for the off-shift requirement in addition to the regular salary.

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