**About Kerry**:
- Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
**About the role**:
Nature of Work
- Identify areas of improvement for internal operations and supplier processing based on routine data received internally and externally.
- Facilitates decision making and prioritization based on data inside.
- Build ad hoc reports to easily visualize progress or gaps.
- Run daily dashboards in excel for associated plants and distribute to stakeholders including but not limited to warehouse, transportation, inventory, customer care, prior to touchpoint calls
**Key responsibilities**:
- Consolidate SAP plant, transportation, and 3PL data for central and plant facilities review.
- Create dashboards for ease of use by end users.
- Management of a weekly OTIF review process including tracking failure reason codes and aligning system data.
- Instill a daily OTIF (On Time in Full) focused culture within the operational execution teams.
- Highlight customer orders in review status and agree on actions needed to align dates and/or avoid future failures.
- Daily maintenance and consolidation of open order risk analysis, including the process to capture data from multiple sources.
- Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts, and historical material usage to develop and execute project transition plans.
- Participate in daily/weekly/monthly teams calls.
- Validate and audit data captured from plants and warehouses to ensure accuracy.
- Work closely with the Supply Planning and Warehouse/Logistic operations teams to complete projects on time.
- Perform occasional facility visits, audits, and data capture workshops.
**Qualifications and skills**:
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP.
- Advanced skills with Microsoft Office, SQL Queries, PowerBI & Excel.
- General knowledge of factory and DC distribution networks.
- Ability to conduct root cause analysis and sees connections between data and process.
- Strong analytical skills; able to compile and analyze data.
- Excellent data manipulation and interpretation skills for use in understanding trends, performance analyses, etc.
- Prepare and conduct quality assurance reviews and process audits for compliance.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrates effective listening and questioning skills and is comfortable dealing with all levels in the organization, superior verbal, and written skills.
Non-Technical Skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, in English
- Detail oriented, thorough with documentation/communication
- Ability to quickly adapt to changes in timelines and sequences, deal with ambiguity, and succeed in a high-pressure environment.
- Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment.
- A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
