Sea Transportation Lead

SEA Transportation Lead

**Job Description**:
3M Healthcare is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

Job Summary:

- Serve as primary transportation source for input of transportation and distribution related issues into product division’s long term strategic planning process.
- Provide extensive knowledge of Solventum products, carrier industry and customer distribution requirements for global transportation analysis as part of product division of global marketing plan
- Provide consultative advice to product division management in matters of technical expertise regarding transportation and distribution issues.
- Serve as transportation consultant to plants, branches, and shipping/receiving locations.
- Act as primary contact for external suppliers for product division transportation and distribution strategies
- Provide transportation consulting services to plants, branches, and shipping/receiving locations by designing and conducting feasibility studies, distribution analysis and research projects dealing with location business planning.
- Initiate highly complex distribution analysis with assigned product divisions and foreign subsidiaries.
- Promote objectives of cost reduction, transportation inventory management, cycle time compression and improved customer satisfaction
- Design and implement improvements to transportation systems such as Supply Chain Management, Just in Time, and Optimized operations program to foster division objectives
- Provide work direction and leadership to others in same work unit by influencing cross functional boundaries to meet customer expectations.
- Provide direct supervision to others in the same work unit including career development, coaching, appraisals, and technical skills building. Serve as Regional Transportation Quality Council coordination as part of assigned responsibilities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead and manage SEA Transportation, managing end to end transportation operations executions excellence.
- Subject matter expert for regional transportation advisory role, in particular knowledge of transportation movement for Healthcare and Dangerous Goods
- Understand COGS, managing SEA transportation costs to ensure Operating plan is met against target.
- Create, maintain, and enhance transportation analytics such as the management of collection and analyzing transportation data to identify areas of opportunity or problems within the supply chain environment.
- Manage Supplier relationship management through key metrics, identify improvement opportunities, drive performance targets to fulfil customers’ needs.
- Close collaboration with sourcing and global team to drive cost improvements.
- Develop and standardize operational reports and dashboards such as transportation database, routing guide to monitor data integrity for compliance and data governance.
- Provide recommendation and drive automation of reporting tools to enhance E2E visibility.
- Drive suppliers’ compliance in invoicing timeliness, accuracy, and manage vendor audit performance.
- Super user to build reporting via various Transportation Management System and collaborate with Global to enhancing E2E reporting tool.
- Main transportation operational escalation focal for SEA
- Collaboration with various function stakeholders, in Business Groups, Planning, Intercompany Order management team, Warehouse and Distribution for customer fulfilment
- Create and drive transportation continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives across the countries.
- Manage and responsible on driving suppliers’ transportation damages, collaborate with Quality team, setting new metrics and drive key DPPM KPIs
- Lead weekly operational meeting and monthly business review with key suppliers.

**Pre-requisite (preferably)**:

- Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in healthcare/pharmaceutical transportation experience
- Experienced in managing cross functional groups and leading SEA countries.
- Good exposure to 3PL industry know-how and background, conversant with commercial processes and operational variances
- Knowledge on SAP / OTM / EDI will be an added advantage
- Good project management and influencing skills and able to drive change managementEffective communication and good interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills and adept at digitalization tools