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Logistics Lead for Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea (ANZJK).The
Logistics Lead ANZJK is accountable for all Logistics, International Trade Operations and Compliance activities across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea. This role collaborates with local, regional and global stakeholders across Commercial, Supply Chain, Procurement and Regulatory functions, as well as with external suppliers across warehousing, transport and customs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Order Fulfillment &
Logistics LeaderPurpose: Functional leadership for Logistics, International Trade Operations and Compliance across ANZJK.
- Responsible for maintaining an effective distribution network capability. Responsible for all transportation modes including road carriers, marine and air operations.
- Drive high customer service performance standards and accountable for key KPI's including On-time Shipment, On-time Delivery, Inventory Record Accuracy and Cost-to-Serve.
- Charter and sponsor improvement programs related to logistics.
- Ensure proper training and on-boarding is assigned and completed for new team members. Identifies gaps in current work process/training/system issues. Ensures continuing/ongoing training requirements are fulfilled for the entire organization with respect to transport and international trade compliance.
- Facilitate a strong partnership across supply chain team, customer services and commercial teams.
- Active participation in regional and global Corteva functional network teams.
- Assure integration and optimization of key work processes, systems and technology. Identifies solutions, initiatives, and tools to optimize logistics-supply chain cost and efficiency.
- Oversight of import duty payments and reduction initiatives (ex. drawback, Misc. tariff bill legislation, preferential origin).
- Provide insight on regional market conditions and lead efforts minimize impact of supply chain logistics disruptions.
- Partner with the Purchasing function to specify contract requirements for vendor services secured through third parties on behalf of the business. Manage supplier performance to ensure business needs are being met, point of escalation.
- Accountable for regional distribution and warehouse expense - cost centre owner.
- Accountable for all Distribution Safety & Security activities including adherence to all external regulations and internal standards.
- Responsible for management and maintenance of required industry certification to support Corteva operations (e.g. Organic certification).
Trade Compliance SpecialistPurpose: Ensure International Trade Compliance for ANZJK. Lead the compliance on export & import regulatory requirements. Lead improvement projects in ANZJK and contribute to some global improvement projects.
- International Trade Operations
- Ensure compliance on all the trade regulations through the documentation of the requirements and the implementation of the corresponding procedure
- Design and manage the relationships with all the Third Party Logistics Service Providers supporting the International Trade Operations in relationships with Purchasing
- Ensure the implementation of all the Trade Compliance Standards.
- Monitor the performance of the International Trade Operations. Initiate and follow-up the corrective actions. Identify root causes and define improvement opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to minimize cost-to-serve through process improvements as through the implementation of customs technics.
- Import & Export Compliance
- Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in International Trade Regulations and provide consultation and guidance
- Represent Corteva in the external industry associations and forums
- Ensure the appropriate knowledge and education in trade regulations within his geography for all the persons involved in the trade operations
- Ensure the compliance of all new supply chains and products by participating in the related projects
- Project Leadership
- Use project leadership competences to improve the International Trade Compliance & Operations performance
- Contribute Customs expertise by identifying, analysing and measuring improvements to key processes and procedures.
- Add value to Customs work processes by participating in process improvement efforts through team activity and individual initiatives.
- Contribute to the leveraging of MET across geographies, contributes to standardizing work processes, systems, tools and metrics.
Regional Distribution Compliance Leader (RDCL)Purpose: Coordinate all the Transportation EHS&S (Environment, Health, Safety & Security) activities for ANZJK. Lead improvement projects in ANZJK and contribute to some global improvement projects.
- Geographic Logistics Operations
- Ensure compliance on all the transport regulations (includes global, regional and special provisions) and internal standards, through the documentation of requirements and the implementation of the corresponding procedures
- Responsible to complete all the planned audits, assessments and reviews of our Logistics Service Providers according to our internal standards
- Identify improvement opportunities and ensure follow-up and completion of improvement plans
- Monitor the performance of the Transport Safety & Security, record all Unplanned Events, and contribute to the Root Cause Investigations of the transport incidents and follow-up the corrective actions.
- Ensure the appropriate knowledge and education in transport regulations within his geography for all the persons involved in the transport & handling as in packaging & labelling of our materials and products
- Support other Supply Chain roles and Purchasing in assessing new Logistics Service Providers
- Regulatory Compliance & Advocacy
- Maintain personal certification in the required transport regulations
- Represent Corteva Agriscience in the external industry associations and forums
- Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in Transport Regulations
- Support internal and external compliance objectives across all modes of transport.
- Participate to all projects related to the implementation of regulatory changes
- Project Leadership
- Coordinate the implementation of transport regulations changes as other changes impacting the transport classification of our products with other Supply Chain and EHS&S roles
- Contribute to the leveraging of MET across geographies, contributes to standardizing work processes, systems, tools and metrics.
- Identify opportunities to minimize cost-to-serve through process improvements.
- Lead and contribute to global initiatives within the Supply Chain EHS&S network
Qualifications- The critical competencies required for success are leadership, interpersonal effectiveness, collaboration, initiative, customer and market focus, value creation, and supply chain skills and expertise.
- Strong, mature collaboration and communication skills and a desire to work within a team environment. Ability to anticipate, lead and build consensus quickly. Ability to build effective working relationships across a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to cope with ambiguity and blurred role boundaries, translate customer requirements into supply chain opportunities, lead cross-functional teams towards customer focused goal. Demonstrated experience in taking accountability and solving problems
- Well-developed time management, planning and organising skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, conflicting priorities, prioritizing both customer and company requirements while acting in a professional manner
- Ability to think and act strategically within a competitive and changing environment. Excellent investigative skills, attention to detail and analytical capability with technical proficiency in the use of computer applications and data analysis.
- Cross-functional teamwork, analytical skills, supply chain process knowledge, interpersonal skills
- Strong change agent skills to transform business operations in logistics. Use a combination of influence and position to drive change
- Strong base in logistics (INCO terms, compliance, customs) and sound base supply chain systems to engage organization with confidence
- Use of metrics for performance management and Root cause problem solving
- Business acumen and leadership communication skills. Connects and integrated well within teams.
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