IT Warehousing Management Expert (Europe)

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Job overview and responsibilities

Here at Syensqo, we're one strong team! Our commitment to accountability drives us as we work hard to deliver value for our customers and stakeholders. In our dynamic and collaborative work environment, we add a touch of enjoyment while staying true to our motto: reinvent progress.

Join us at Syensqo, where our Information Technology (IT) team is gearing up to enhance its capabilities. We play a crucial role in the group's transformation—accelerating growth, reshaping progress, and creating sustainable shared value. The IT team is making operational adjustments to supercharge value across the entire organization.

Come be part of our transformation journey and contribute to the change as a future team member.

You will join the End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain product line within the Digital Operations team and you will work on both run and project activities with a lot of challenges in an international context.

The E2E Supply Chain product line encompasses two critical areas: Logistics and Planning & Scheduling. 

As the IT Warehousing management Expert, you will be part of the Logistics stream, with a focus on the inventory and warehouse solutions. 

The landscape of our logistics solutions is vast, with SAP ERP serving as the backbone, supplemented by various satellite applications.

The IT Warehousing management Expert role is strategic and operational, requiring a blend of technical and functional expertise, problem-solving skills, and extensive experience in Supply Chain processes. 

Key responsibilities of this role:

Monitor & Support current inventory and warehouse solutions: 

• Troubleshoot and resolve any technical issues
• Support End Users
• Maintain up-to-date technical and user documentation
• Coordinate tasks with external providers of managed services

Deploy, Enhance and Transform the Warehousing management IT landscape:

• Identify opportunities to enhance the functionality and performance of existing applications
• Provide technical guidance
• Run projects from preparation to delivery
  • Design and implement new IT solutions
  • Optimize the integration between different applications
  • Integrate new applications and/or logistics service providers
  • Upgrade softwares

You will interact with different key stakeholders on the business side and on the IT side:

• End-to-End Supply Chain Product Manager & Tech Lead 
• Other Product Lines' members (Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality & EHS,)
• Supply Chain Excellence Center
• GBU Coordinators/key-users
• IT experts from other functional or technical domains
• Architects & Cybersecurity leads
• Managed-services providers (support, development, consulting services)

Education and experience

• Bachelor/master’s degree in Information Technology/Information Systems.
• Proven experience in supply chain softwares and tools, with a keen interest in leveraging technology to improve operations.

Skills and behavioral competencies

Skills:

• Senior expertise and significant experience in SAP Inventory Management (SAP IM) and Warehouse Management (SAP WM)
• Strong experience working on integration with the other SAP modules and functional domains (at least Sales & Distribution, Logistics Execution)
• Experience in mobility solutions in Inventory and Warehouse management processes (i.e. Neptune-based solutions)
• Exposure to Agile methodology
• Exposure to advanced analytics and reporting/dashboards, data acquisition/management
• Knowledge of Export compliance evaluations (ITAR, Dual-use, etc.) is a plus

Behaviors

• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with a proven track record of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of working collaboratively across teams and with external partners.
• Result orientation
• Impact & Influence
• Empowerment & accountability
• Team spirit, building relationships, collective accountability

Language skills

English (mandatory because you will join an international team and interact with different countries in the world)

What’s in it for the candidate

• Be part of and contribute to a once-in-a-lifetime change journey 
• Join a dynamic team that is going to tackle big bets
• Have fun and work at a high pace

About us

• Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
• At Syensqo, we seek to promote unity and not uniformity. We value the diversity that individuals bring and we invite you to consider a future with us, regardless of background, age, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity. We encourage individuals who may require any assistance or accommodations to let us know to ensure a seamless application experience. We are here to support you throughout the application journey and want to ensure all candidates are treated equally. If you are unsure whether you meet all the criteria or qualifications listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.